[purrtykitty]

I live in Omaha, and as much as I say there's nothing to do, I still love living here. The people are pretty nice (it's true what they say about the midwest - everyone is friendly...actually I've found that to be true all the way down into Texas) and for being a big city, you're almost always bound to run into someone you know wherever you go! It's a nice sized metropolitan area, but we've been growing so fast! We have pretty decent shopping, but if you want better, KC is 3 hours south, Denver is 8 hours west, Minneapolis is 5 hours north, and Chicago is 9 hours east...so a fantastic shopping weekend is totally feasible. The only sucky thing here are the taxes...boy are we taxed to death. But on the upside, our housing values and unemployment rate have been relatively sheltered from all the goings on in the rest of the nation, so really I can't complain much.

I also love living where there are four seasons...although winter and summer seem to dominate. It's been an icebox most of this winter (starting in November), and last summer it was hotter than Hades. Lately spring and fall only seem to last a couple of weeks each. Now, I'm OK with that as far as spring goes because I really don't like severely stormy weather. I've been lucky so far not to have really experience a tornado myself, but living here, it's only a matter of time. Fall is my favorite season, so I really wish it would last longer. But still, with great people, good shopping, and decent weather, I'll just count my blessings that I live here in my own little corner of paradise.