I love it because it has a small town feel but with heavy-hitting cultural institutions and is more than a little gothic… grand and beautiful with a storied past but also shitty, haunted, and decayed. People who are unpretentious, deeply cynical but kind, outgoing, and joyful. Gloomy skies, long winters, nestled against beautiful Lake Erie, surrounded by sprawling verdant forests and teeming with wildlife 🫶
my hometown, and the perfect place to get your ear talked off 🗣️ medium city with a lot of world class cultural institutions, lovely parks, a big ass lake, i could go on!
I complain about the scene a lot and the university is gentrifying it to filth, but I really do love this city. I think it’s beautiful. And somewhat walkable. Midwestern kindness on the border of Southern charm. (Most of) the people here are honest n real. You can get chili on spaghetti at 1am. We have amazing bookstores. I don’t know how much longer it will be like this, but right now it’s special and it made me who I am.
My dad teases me about how when I was a little kid, my favorite thing to do when I was on the landline phone with somebody—be it a relative or one of my best friends—was to breathlessly describe the things that were in my bedroom so that they could have a mental picture of everything I loved and chose to surround myself with, and where I sat at that moment in time. Perfectly Imperfect reminds me of that so thanks for always listening and for sharing with me too 💌
