In your heart, you were not a "true city dweller" You lived in a city, but liked country life better. I spent the first half of my life in Brooklyn New York. I hated the city and spent as much of my spare time in the woods of New Jersey, as soon as I could drive. As a kid, I spent my summers in the "Jewish Alps" know as the Catskill Mountains, with my family.As soon as I could afford it I moved to Wickenburg, AZ. I have been here for 24 years and love it. All I miss of the city are some good friends, and family, and the great restaurants. Sorry, I didn't mean to go into a life story.I was raised solely in the concrete jungle. Right near LAX. Right where the Rodney King L.A. Riots started. Lived there for 22 years.
I now live right on the edge of civilization on the border of the national forest. I have a long dirt road to drive to get to my property. I am that city dweller who moved to the country, and I have NO desire to make where I am now like where I came from. I moved out here to get away from those horrors. I like seeing deer, coyote, road runners, snakes, hawks, ravens and all sorts of other animals all over the place out here. I like seeing them on walks when I hike around the area. Where I don't like to see any of them is on my ranch or in my tortoise pens. Outside the wall is their territory. Inside the wall is mine.
It was the same in the city, there were just much more dangerous animals there.