24 October 2011, 12:35 am
I am a senior in college and I plan to move to New York City after I graduate. I know people their who will lend me their couches till I manage to get a job and save up for my own place. I mentioned this to someone and he told me that it was not a sensible plan. I should go back to the small Pennsylvania town I grew up in, move back in with my parents and start my job search there. I know that I am taking a risk by moving, and that things will be hard for me in the for the first few months, especially financially. It would be easier to go back to Erie, it may be easier for me to get a job there, due to my parents connections. I have seen a lot of people do this, going back to their hometown after college or staying in Erie for college and never leave. They have a narrow view of the world because they never went outside their comfort zone, they only did what was sensible. There is nothing wrong with Pennsylvania or Erie, it was a good place to grow up, or smaller towns and cities, but I don't want to live my life in one place where I know everyone, and nothing changes. It may be sensible, but humans are not suppose to be sensible. If we were, we would have never came down from the trees to the ground where we did not know what dangers lurked below. But we did any way and I am glad that someone made that leap.... Read More »
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