June Blogging Challenge Day 14

What do you love about your hometown?

There are a lot of nice people here who are willing to help their community. There is a sense of belonging. The city is very beautiful for the most part as well - the older arias are thick with trees and it's like living in a forest. It's not too large, so it's easy to get any place you need to go in short amounts of time. For being a not so large place, the city still has a great deal of places to shop, eat, drink, and be entertained. We have a history of being a artistic community as well. The amount of artists, song writers, poets, and so on is way higher in Moose Jaw than in most communities. We have our detractors, like the hospital not being big enough or as well staffed as it should be, and a large drug problem for our size. However, I have not wanted to live any other place in very many years. I love Moose Jaw, and I don't ever want to be any other place. I was born in Saskatoon, but I only spent 11 months there before being adopted and relocated to Moose Jaw. When I was growing up, you did not have to lock your doors here, and children where free to move about the streets, and parks alone with no adults, without the fear of harm. It's very much no the case now, but it's still a wonderful place to raise children.