The city of Los Angeles, California offers variety of entertainment. From concert venues, recreational parks, museums, amusement parks, and boutiques of your favorite treats and clothes that are to die for, yet you can't always shop for. There’s also a vast number of restaurants of varying cultural cuisines — whether you’re craving Italian, Chinese, Peruvian, or Salvadorian food, you can find it within the boundaries of Los Angeles. If fun is what you're looking for, Los Angeles has it.

Then there's little ol' Bar Harbor which has two movie theaters, a few cute shops, and a few museums that are free and sometimes open, and the YMCA to get your workout on. There's also Acadia National Park, which is biggest plus. A town of college students and its few year-round residents. This small little town handles a few people year-round and a vast amount of people during the tourist season. It's like it overflows with little adventuring ants during the summer time, everyone looking around trying to enjoy the beautiful views and hiking trails.

So what are my real complaints? What is it that bothers me so much about the Los Angeles City and makes me fall more and more in love with little ol' Bar Harbor?

The city goes swush, swush, swush, with its speeding cars. It’s fast like lighting and not only can you tell from the traffic, it’s also within the people, moving from place to place, rarely stopping to take a breath. There's barely even a moment of silence at night. It's rare to even hear the crickets. Even with all the available fun, there's no way that it's sane to live a simple life when everyone is rushing around waiting to get off the 101 freeway simply to go to that great Staple Center to see Justin Bieber or Beyonce perform their latest album.

Then there's Bar Harbor....

The quietness that comes with a small little town is what sold me on Bar Harbor. The smell of the air that is enhanced by the sea salt of the freezing cold Atlantic Ocean. The friendliness of the neighbors, no need to be suspicious because there is a comfort in being able to smile at your neighbors rather than just acting like strangers. There’s a kind of comfort and safety that comes out of living in a small town that could never be found in urban Los Angeles.

I would rather live among the trees than to live upon skyscrapers. I would rather hear birds in the morning than to listen to cars passing by every other minute. I would rather be among raspberry bushes than to be among the overly watered fake grass, I would rather see the stars all night long with clear open skies than to have to find a place where the smog isn’t too bad simply to find five to ten stars.