TheBanyanTree: trendy schmendy

[NancyIee at aol.com]

(Sigh)  How I agree.  Just when you find the perfect  neighborhood, slightly 
tacky but charming, the little restaurant, where you see  the same staff every 
visit, and they treat you like company.  A real  hardware store without the 
fancy glasses and lawn furniture, but where you can  actually find nuts and 
bolts.  A real drug store, without the fancy glasses  , cosmetic department, and 
lawn furniture, and you can find real cough medicine  and bandages.  A place 
that serves real ice cream.  
 
Seems that every time you find such a place or city, they change it to make  
it something it was never and never should be.  A big city.  I moved  here 
because it was an old, smaller, slightly tacky, friendly, artsy, quaint  city.  
It had its own special feeling, the shell store, the swim suit  store, where 
you could get beach toys as well.  A corner pizza place like  you might have 
gone to in college. A tiny theater where the local folks put  on plays.
 
It's now like any other city. Glassy downtown with no parking and no book  
store, outer malls that look the same here as in Indiana or Colorado or  
Washington DC. There's no individuality. No flavor.  It's just another  Starbucks.
 
Now, I have my eye on . .no, I won't mention the name of this little city.  
It's still unspoiled, undiscovered, quaint.  I will find me a little house  in 
a little neighborhood, within walking distance to a real hardware store, and  
live there.  Until someone decides they need a glassy downtown and a  
SuperWalmart.
 
NancyLee



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