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2015
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PA R A D I S E , U S A
SOUT
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RLESTO
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february
CAROLI
ESCAPE THE ORDINARY
Being local is more about where we call home and less about occupying a space. It’s knowing the back streets and the secret princess parking spaces, meeting the farmers who grow our strawberries faceto-face at the u-pick, calling the owner of the bakery down the street by name. The tourists we give directions to don’t know if we’ve been here for five or 50 years, we have a favorite after-work drink and a place with a view to enjoy it, we find chicken soup left by a neighbor on our porch because they heard we were under the weather. We live in neighborhoods, not newsfeeds. We shop in person, no free shipping required, because we like to pick out our own clusters of oysters farmed
that
morning.
Our
favorite
butcher knows we like the grass-fed beef and which cut. We’re regulars at lunch counters, farmer’s markets, and spin class. We raise each other’s children. We don’t need neighborhood watch signs to keep an eye out. We welcome newcomers with southern grace and charm. We’re not in a rush, we always have time to stop for a porch chat, and wonder how people who go for years without meeting their neighbors live (bless their hearts). It doesn’t even matter if you’re here to stay or just passing through, We want you to feel just as at home here as we do.
“If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.” Malala Yousafzai