My wife and I recently moved to a smaller town in the Northeast from Colorado. It's been an adjustment, but honestly I've found some wonderful communities here supporting each other much more than I had out West.

This isn't to say that it's a hellhole out there. It's more that I wasn't expecting to find it here, which gave me a bit of a recheck to my thoughts on the state of things.

It also isn't perfect, but I'm not letting that bring down the hope it brought me.

Now back to being jaded 🙃