• the summer garbage smell
• humidity
• the school entrance requirements and stress for pre-K, elementary school, middle school and high school. no one should be that stressed out about fifth grade. it’s not normal. or healthy.
• the fast-paced nature of everything and everyone
• the inability of working folks to ever imagine buying anything
• paying exorbitant, embarrassing sums of money on rent
• the never-ending winters
• the way my feet feel at night having walked on pavement all day
• noise–all the time
• living on top of and underneath someone
• so. many. people. everywhere. all the time.