When I moved from the boonies of Leelanau County in northern Michigan to the biggest and busiest county in southern Michigan, I had a lot of getting used to ahead of me. Here's what I have accomplished:

• Learning to deal with more aggressive traffic
• Coping with the larger amount of agressive & angry people
• Somehow managing to make friends with my new neighbors
• Getting used to not having to know everyone by name to fit in

Here's what I still need to work on:

• Learning all the crazy roads that stop at one point and start again somewhere else miles away
• Finding a nice place
• Keeping up with the fast pace of the city
• Staying in style with the other city girls
• Coping with stuck-up/shallow rich people
• Finding a good restaurant that isn't from a chain
• Making a good, good friend
• Making it rich! Because you can only do that in the city!

Here's what I won't miss:

• Being a half-an-hour drive away from everything
• Every establishment closing at 8pm if not earlier
• Six feet of snow by the beginning of November
• Six feet of snow period
• The everyone knows everbody atmosphere

Here's what I'll never be able to get used to:

• Only being able to see a handful of stars at night
• Feeling so alone in a big city