I live in a very small town 30 minutes west of Toledo. I have definately noticed that the smaller businesses here suffer in comparison to the larger more commercialized businesses in the larger towns next to mine. The main thing I have noticed is that our grocery store suffers the most. Our grocery store actually was shut down for a couple of years because business was bad. The town next to ours had opened a Walmart and the goods were so much less expensive there than they were at the local small grocery store. The grocery store did manage to get on its feet and open again but it has still be struggling comparet to Walmart. I personally try to support the local store as much as possible because it gives people in my community jobs and it is much more convinent than drive 15 minutes to go to walmart. I think saving in gas saves me the same amount that I would be saving in groceries anyways.
This chapter talked about vacations of two locations. One being in nature and one being the expensive route. My family would definately choose the nature location. We love to canoe and hike. Generally when we go on vacation it is to a spot that is peaceful and quiet where we can enjoy leaisure activities with one another. The atmostphere of being in nature would be the vacation that my family would enjoy the most.
I agree with your statement about the vacations. I would much rather be in a quiet peacefull place rather than in a noisey, crowded, frustrating city. On nature vacations people have to be creative and find things to do. People go on vacations in cities, where there is entertainment everywhere, so they have twenty different entertainment options, where as in nature you have to create your entertainment.
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