With the economy crashing, we’re more thinking, ‘Oh, I lost my job, I’m low on cash,’ without thinking, ‘I’m not the only one that is low on cash or lost a job.’ 

Content with the smaller community

I actually live in Webster Groves [outside St. Louis] and it maintains a small town mentality so even though it’s technically a suburb of the greater St. Louis area, I kind of have had the same friends throughout my life and I go to the same small town places.

I don’t go too far into the city very often. I kind of stick to the same people and corners of this little area. So I don’t spend a whole lot of time in the city of St. Louis.

The reason that I don’t find myself or my peers traveling too far outside of our little community is because for some reason Webster Groves and Rock Hill [a city outside St. Louis] have innately created a mentality of the small town. We know that there’s the Busch Stadium and The Loop [downtown area in St. Louis] and we go there maybe once a year. But we seem to be comfortable and content with the little parks and little shops around here.

And even though I have a car now I don’t find the need to go down the twenty or thirty  minutes to get there. I think we’ve created a happy space here and I think we can kind of get lost in the simplicity that it can have at times.