So, I know this is a topic for this coming week, but I decided to answer it because I don’t know what else to write about. I grew up in the country and have lived on a farm all my life. I can't imagine living anywhere else. I'm from the good old small town of Brookville, Indiana where everyone knows everyone and everybody knows your business, which can be a good thing and a bad thing at the same time. I can drive down Main Street and always pass someone I know. There are always friendly waves whenever you pass someone on the road. You don't even have to know them that well. I guess that’s what I have always loved about the country and living near a small town. I never feel unsafe or feel threatened, and I feel that it is a great atmosphere to raise a family. I am almost positive I am going to live in the country when I finally graduate college and get a job. I don’t know if I will move back to Brookville or not, but it will most likely be close to there because all of my family lives there. I guess if I got a great job opportunity, I would probably move though. I don’t know about living in a big city, but since I want to become a pharmacist, that is probably where the better jobs are. But, then again, I am just playing it day to day. I don’t know where I’m going to be when I graduate. So, who knows where I will be at in six years.

I completely agree with Melissa. I also grew up in the country and cannot imagine living anywhere else. I absolutely love not having any neighbors. I would hate living in town where the houses are so close that you can see in each other’s windows. That is just to close for me. I need my space. I need a huge back yard that my kids can play in and pasture for my cattle. I need to smell fresh air. I want to go to Wal-Mart and run into everyone I know. I want to drive down the road and have people wave. I want the little country town.

I want to go back home to H-town, or better known as Huntington, Indiana. This is where all of my family is. I want to know that my kids can run around and ride their bikes up and down the country road and be safe. I want my kids to know how important family is and for my parents to be as important in my kids lives as my grandparents were in my life. I know Huntington is a good town with a good school where my children will be safe.

I also want to live in the country because I want to be a food animal veterinary. Which kinda requires living and a farming community. Living in the suburbs or in a big city there might be a small shortage of animals that I can work on. I understand why people would not want to live in the country, but I can’t imagine being anywhere else.

Well immediately after college I would like to get a job that allows me to travel around the county and world. I've never been outside the country, but I have always been interested in other cultures. I'd like to live and work in some exotic locations.

Eventually though, I think I'd like to settle down. Like everyone else so far, I want to live in a place similar to where I grew up. Unlike everyone else so far, that's not a small town or in the country. I have lived all my life in a suburb of Chicago, Lake Zurich. Lake Zurich isn't like a lot of other suburbs because it actually used to be a small town surrounded by farms before Chicago suburbs expanded and have almost enveloped it. Because of the town's history and the way it developed it has more of a sense of community than surrounding suburbs.

I always liked being on the edge of the suburbs. I can go one direction and go into the city and all the opportunities for entertainment that has, or go the other direction and be in cornfields. In recent years my town has became more developed than I would like it. The last farm in town was closed a few years ago to build a subdivision on. Several shopping centers have been built replacing most of the stands of trees that once stood. These stands were the first significant undeveloped areas that you saw as you drove out of the city.

When I'm older I think I'd like to move to a community that's more like the Lake Zurich I remember when I was younger. I'm conflicted about that though, because by moving out to the communities on the edge of the suburbs, I will be contributing to what made Lake Zurich less desirable. Oh well, I'll worry about that when The time comes to find a home.