Dealing with city life was the hardest part about going to undergraduate school for me.
I was raised in a rural suburb and wasn’t used to busy subways and flooded city streets.
Going out at night was terrifying if you didn’t know which parts of town to avoid. I almost got mugged one night while I was stumbling back to my apartment after a few hours of heavy drinking at a bar. If my large friend hadn’t seen my pursuer before I had, I probably would have been robbed at knife point. With these experiences happening fairly regularly, I started to dream about moving out to the countryside and getting away from this urban insanity. Unfortunately, I had to save for two years straight before I could afford to rent a house in a rural community about an hour out of the city. There are no vacancies at the few apartment complexes so my only options were two bedroom houses of varying amounts. Although I love being away from the city, I’m starting to feel the pain of having fewer businesses to choose from being away from a densely populated area. For instance, finding quality plumbing services near me is difficult when there are only three businesses that will agree to drive to my house. Two of these plumbing services have bad reviews, especially the one that I dealt with once already. They tried to sell me on a pipe cleaning service even after I told them to send a snake-camera down the pipes to prove it to me. When I noticed that the inside surfaces of my PVC pipes appeared to look clean in about 98% of the house, I told this sketchy plumber to hit the road. That leaves me with only one option for plumbing services if I don’t want to get ripped off from the jump.