When the year comes to a close, we tend to use it as an opportunity to look back. As the last five years of my life were a tumultuous period of traveling and living in various locations around the United States, I took a chance to pause and reflect on some of these places. Truthfully, I wanted a break from topics with gravitas. I’ve only listed locations at which I lived in for at minimum of three months. There are plenty of cities I love, such as Chicago and Boston. However, one does not get more than a tourists surface level understanding of a city until they have lived there for a bit.
10 — Corning, NY
I’m not one for living with regrets or resenting lost time. However, Corning felt like a time sink that I will never get back. This city feels so incredibly isolated from the rest of the world. Corning is small with a population of only about 10,000 people and has steadily dropped over the last several decades. All the sources of entertainment are isolated to a single street that every Corning denizen constantly raves about, Market Street. This single mile long street contains every mom & pop shop, restaurant, and artisan coffee shop you will find in Corning. If you can make it on Market Street, you can make it anywhere… in Corning.
Aside from walking this mile long road over and over again, the city is incredibly bare. The…
