Originally Posted by
RollCNY
And just a follow up example:
We spent a week in Savannah, GA, last year, and my wife loved it. She would list all of the perks over any Northern city. And though I thought it was beautiful and has great parks and outdoor living, it's history hangs around it's neck like an albatross. It was depressing to me, as the beauty is built on the backs of human suffering. I would never get past that living there.
How do things like that fold into a livability index?
I lived 30 miles down the road for 3 years and often visited both Savannah Ga and Charleston, S.C, both beautiful cities. I never thought of the human suffering aspect. Now I live in Richmond and there was tons of suffering here. Prior to that Fredericksburg, Va. again littered with battlefields. Just about any place you visit or live has a past full of injustices and or death. Live in the present and create a better future for those who come after you, while at the same time remembering the past but not allowing it to determine the road ahead.....