squirrella | (Reply)

Moving from Kalamazoo to Philadelph-I-ay was definitely a big change -- learning how to navigate public transit (I seriously didn't take a bus for like a year because I was all nervous about taking the wrong one and not being able to get back home), trying to make connections with people, getting used to sometimes getting on the subway and being the only white person in the car... I honestly fell in love with Philly the first time I visited, though, and I still love it; it's so much more neighborhood-y and friendly than Kalamazoo. In Kzoo, you pretty much had to have a car to get anywhere, and a lot of times the college campus felt like this oasis in between strip malls or something. So I was just entranced that I could go outside at any time of night and there would be people walking around and doing their pedestrian thing. :)