Matter of Fact

My Town

My town calls itself a city. I don’t know what the population is, but it’s not a big city, although until the housing slump it was growing fast. It is fairly homogenous: mostly white, middle- to upper-class, and probably at least 90 percent the same religion. I’m guessing at least half of the homes are less than twenty years old. A lot of the original settlers have died or sold their large tracts of land which are now new subdivisions. When we first moved here eleven years ago, my kids used to enjoy playing in what was called ‘”the bike fields.” Those are gone, replaced by mostly brown stucco houses. This year the town built a new “town center.” There are city offices, a small library, a fire/police station, and a water park which consists of a small man-made river and a plaza with fountains that kids can play in. People are friendly, crime is low, life is predictable. But sometimes a little boring.

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