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Still in Search of a City

Posted by Heather Sanderson, 4 years ago

I don't think I've found my city yet...I grew up in a town outside of Toronto, but still in the GTA and had an intense animosity towards Toronto growing up. I moved to Kingston for University and absolutely loved the city while I was there, but it was purely a student city (and the people and time were what made it) so I wouldn't want to live there as an adult. Then I whisked off to Vancouver for a Masters, and didn't love living there either. Now, back in good old Mississauga, I have purchased a condo that I love and have a job that I love, but aside from loving my friends and family in the city, it still doesn't feel like the place to be. I have a UK passport as well as Canadian and can live anywhere in the EU, and whenever I touch down on British soil, I feel the most at home -- though I'm not sure that I want to live there as much as I used to.

At least I can rest assured that perhaps I'll move for the "retirement" stage of my life...albeit in about 40 years! My heart is set on finding a warm climate for those years. I find it interesting in Who's Your City the idea of life stages meaning that you have to seriously consider where you live. And I do believe that place services a purpose for everyone depending on the time of life and goals and objectives that you hold dear.

I wonder if anyone else is as conflicted as I and if you've found an answer through Richard Flordia's new book? Or have you found the place that you want to be in forever? For a while? How many times have you moved? How many cities have you lived in? I'm at 4 so far, and I'm only 27...so here's hoping there are a lot more to come.

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