Fargo is my home, it’s where I grew up and basically the only place that I remember ever living in.

New York is a city with people of all sizes, shapes, colors, sexualities, and talents, and it’s where I dream of living one day.

The difference between small town Fargo, North Dakota, and the Big Apple are very clear. One is a “large” Midwestern town with people who say sorry for accidently tapping your foot with theirs. The other is a city where manners are a thing of the past and getting where you need to go is what’s really important.

For some people, the latter leaves a sour taste in their mouth, but for me it makes me excited.

I love Fargo, I really do. If I had to live here I wouldn’t be mad, but New York is where I belong.

Yes, I know that millions of people say that every day. Do I care? No.

Surrounded by art, culture, and some ill mannered native New Yorkers is something that I want to experience. Being able to learn something new about the people around me every day isn’t something that I’m used to, instead I’m accustomed to rarely walking around the city at all.

I live in a tiny neighborhood by the river, I don’t even have real neighbors.

Being a thespian and aspiring writers, being able to live in a city as connected as New York is a dream come true. Maybe not financially, but I’m going to pretend that isn’t a problem for the moment.

I’ve been to New York twice. Once when I was thirteen on a birthday trip my mom took me on, and the second was on a school theater trip.

The second time we were allowed to actually walk around the city and we got to see more than the normal tourist sites. That was the time when I got to see what New York was really about, and I fell in love almost instantly.

Sure, I was scared most of the time. Midwestern girl in the big city who has anxiety issues can get that way, but it was a good kind of scared. It got me to look at everything in front of me and around me, and I saw the community that New York created.

Being able to live there, to work there, would challenge who I am as a person. It would challenge me to see things in a different point of view, to get out and see the city with different eyes every day.

I would meet new people, good and bad, and learn things that I wouldn’t learn in Fargo.

I want to live in New York. I want to live in the Big Apple. I want to live near the Great White Way.

I just want to live my dream.