Life In Sacramento

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The hustle and bustle of city living is astounding to the ears. Millennials are drawn more to the urban lifestyle because of convenience and that they believe that it is the kind of life that they want to live. City life in the Sacramento area is something that most early twenties and thirties aspire for. Food, music and entertainment are so much easier to access when you live in the area. People’s preferences are guided by their experiences and as we evolve, we tend to want a little more different than what we were used to. A lifestyle is our habits, behaviors, principles and our way of living and that’s what makes up a definition of an individual. When we are younger, we tend to shy away from the idea of the other lifestyle to which we have …show more content…

The perk of living in the heart of the city is the propitiousness of getting to the suburban area in a short amount of time. When you live in Sacramento, you have Lake Tahoe to go to when you want to enjoy and stay away from the buzz of the city and when you want to visit a big city; San Francisco is only two hours away. It is important to know what Sacramento has to offer. According to Morales, “it is constantly overshadowed by cosmopolitan places in its own state, Sacramento is undergoing a transition, with technological and cultural developments breathing new life into the California capital”(1). Before indulging more into the advantages and disadvantages of each lifestyle, let’s elucidate the meaning of urban living and suburbia. According to buzzle, urban region is a location where people are furnished with modern resources. On the other hand, suburban living has more space, less people and the area is proximately closer to greenery. In the urban areas, there is an estimate of about 3.9 billion people who lives in these …show more content…

As for me, I wouldn’t want to trade living in the suburban life than anything else. I may not have my own family for now but in the future I want them to have the life that I had when I was little. When I was younger than five years old, my dad moved us to Vallejo because it was closer to his job. Not having other family members around was hard and to top it off, Vallejo is a pretty rough neighborhood. It was near and high in crime rates and it would be one of the things that I would highly consider when I would have my own kids. The experience that I had when we lived in the city sums up the desire and want for a peaceful life in the sense where I get to do what I want in my own time without having to wander close proximity with neighbors. When I turned 18, I lived in the core of Sacramento, which was really convenient at that time. I worked for the food industry and worked for a couple of places. It was easier then for because the big thing that I wanted was to have less commute from my house, one job to the other. I thought I had a ton of friends and we would have parties every weekend. I could definitely say that at a certain age in one’s life, we long for energy and adventure. We think we love our lifestyle until we get burnt out of it. Yes, I will not life that living in the city has so many advantages to me at that time but I also don’t want to deny the fact that being able to experience the

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