I believe living in a house in a quiet place gives you more
time to simply be, which could even lead to reflection. Whereas city people
often make fun of suburbanites, I do think standing in front of your little
ranch house, staring at a tree, is not a bad way to spend time.
Good thoughts arise when you are in nature, even nature that
has lots of little (and sometimes big) houses in it.
People in cities process a lot of information…but this is
not necessarily a state of greater intelligence, but perhaps more an act of
greater filtering. You have to work hard to ignore the distractions.
Plus, a void is a great thing to fill. So living in a void
can often be a thrill.
Years ago, when I moved to LA, a friend from NYC had gotten
there ten months before I had and she said, “You can be a star in LA. In NY , NY
She meant that there is space to be who you are there. Which is quite something…Or maybe she meant
something else. We were very young.
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