Recently, I was thinking about the time I've spent in city life compared to time I've spent in rural life. There are many differences, but many similarities, too, tons of them.
One difference I found was that, in a busy densely populated area of an urban setting, there are often sizable laundromats. They become your laundromat because of your time spent, regularly going there to do laundry. It's almost an extension of home after a while.
There are common answers to the problems posed of transporting, washing, folding clothes, timing washers and dryers with fellow patrons etc. Often you might see a neighbor with a fold up two wheel wire cart, common and perfect, rolling down the sidewalk and you know where they're headed.
A thing I found incredibly fun about this experience was the merchandise a laundromat might have for sale, including laundry bags. This is a laundry bag from the laundromat in my old neighborhood. These bags lent an air of pride for one's home laundromat. Going from neighborhood to neighborhood, you could see various different laundry bags in wire carts rolling down the sidewalks, and those bags were like flags denoting ones neighborhood and one's devotion this local source of cleanliness!
The city can be full of wonders like this. You almost have to experience them to know they exist; they don't often get brought up, I suppose, because they lack the sensationalism we seem to crave. The same can be said of the country. Some things about this world just take time and first hand experience to know.
Myself, I deeply love both urban and rural experience, and the wide array in between.
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City and Country
Recently, I was thinking about the time I've spent in city life compared to time I've spent in rural life. There are many differences, but many similarities, too, tons of them.
One difference I found was that, in a busy densely populated area of an urban setting, there are often sizable laundromats. They become your laundromat because of your time spent, regularly going there to do laundry. It's almost an extension of home after a while.
There are common answers to the problems posed of transporting, washing, folding clothes, timing washers and dryers with fellow patrons etc. Often you might see a neighbor with a fold up two wheel wire cart, common and perfect, rolling down the sidewalk and you know where they're headed.
A thing I found incredibly fun about this experience was the merchandise a laundromat might have for sale, including laundry bags. This is a laundry bag from the laundromat in my old neighborhood. These bags lent an air of pride for one's home laundromat. Going from neighborhood to neighborhood, you could see various different laundry bags in wire carts rolling down the sidewalks, and those bags were like flags denoting ones neighborhood and one's devotion this local source of cleanliness!
The city can be full of wonders like this. You almost have to experience them to know they exist; they don't often get brought up, I suppose, because they lack the sensationalism we seem to crave. The same can be said of the country. Some things about this world just take time and first hand experience to know.
Myself, I deeply love both urban and rural experience, and the wide array in between.
=M=
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