it isn't because the city is grimy and scary and dirty and loud, or because drexel is a factory as much as an institution of learning.
or rather, these are the symptoms, not the disease.

cities cannot survive. they don't work. rome fell because rome had to fall. look at the ghettos and the winos and the cracked cement church walls. look at the traffic and the conglomerates and the boarded up buildings. we've decided that cities are our way to live, and we had a whole industrial revolution to prove it. but it doesn't work. all the homeless shelters and arterial streets and tax incentives in the world can't fix it, because the system is fundamentally flawed.

and i don't want to perpetuate the myth that a city is a viable way of life. that's why i'm unhappy here; that's why i want to leave.