On a side note, I’ve found that it’s most of the big cities where culture (by which I mean theater, movies that aren’t big blockbuster things, the like) is hard to come by. It’s not that there isn’t any — Orlando, for example, had plenty non-Disney art stuff — but it’s often difficult to get to it. For one thing, city ticket prices can be expensive. And then there is the problem of getting to a theater or art gallery or so on if it happens to be across town and you have no car as I did for many years, and the buses don’t run as late as the show. Or you have a car, but you have to drive, often in traffic (if a show starts at 7pm, you need to get there at least at six to find parking, and often have to pay for parking as well, and thus you need to leave your house at rush hour). And in some cities going to events that are at night and even in the daytime is downright dangerous if the crime rate is high. These are just some of the problems that make so many people just opt to stay home and rent the Mel Gibson Hamlet from Netflix.

Where I am now is literally up the block from the theater. It’s like a couple minutes walk. Also a friend of mine got me into going. I didn’t have anyone like that in Orlando — everyone there I’d known had moved away long before I did.