My hometown is my comfort place. It is where some of my most happy memories have taken place. It has my favorite restaurants, best friends, and home. Now even though as I am up at Michigan State I may call it home Beverly Hills will always be my home.

I know it like the back of my hand. It is home to the Franklin Cider Mill which I have eagerly waited for every year. It is something to look forward to every fall. It has all the cute shops of Birmingham. As well, as the brunch place Cafe Succo where my childhood best friends and me frequently brunch. We may have even rated every restaurant we went to and made a whole list. This eventually lead to not only brunches, but dinners and bachelorette nights. I love that it has a Leo's on every corner especially those 1 am snack times. Its home to the simple places like Sy Thai all the way to the extra yummy places like Social. I have never seen so many types of food and restaurants in one place.

I love knowing everyone in this area, in my neighborhood, and in my grade. I got to meet some of my best friends in preschool, grade school, and high school. I was so happy to see all my friends walking side by side with me at graduation that I have known since preschool. That's the beauty of this place you can have so many friends just from knowing them your whole life. I have loved being able to take one left out of my neighborhood and be at my high school. As well as knowing that on that same road as my high school I pass the preschool I went to and right next to the high school is my grade school.

One other amazing part is the places such as my sim club being a 5 minute drive away in which I have meet some of my best friends. This has also been a place which such happy memories. I love knowing that my neighborhood is the same one my mother grew up in. As well as knowing I can walk two houses down and my best friend is there as well as two other friends being a 2 minute walk away in the neighborhood. I love knowing that my old house was just 10 minutes away. All of these things make me love where I live because it makes me feel safe and at home.

Yeah maybe a small town is not for everyone but it has been for me my whole life. It gives me comfort knowing that I leave my home to go to another place I can now consider home as well. I'm also glad that I have a place that is so hard to leave because some people do not have that at all. I also hope one when I am a parent my kids can have such an amazing place to call home. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.