SEEING THE CITY: 2025

You can see the bridge from my house, towering over the rest of the townhouses. I like to say that I’m technically from both Brooklyn and...

Seattle. For most people - it's a temporary city. You graduate with a degree in business, CS, or engineering and come to the PNW with a...

Driving up the 101 Highway, I feel comforted by the familiar salty smell in the air, the bright blue sky and sea, and the heat of the...

Last weekend, having caught the flu, I suddenly felt homesick. It was the first time I had truly felt homesick since leaving for college....

As a resident of rural Ulster Park, NY, the New York City metropolis is both strikingly distant and strangely close. I live on a dead-end...

I came from a city in Florida announced as St. Petersburg, which is also known by "The Burg" or "727"(Area code). My city isn’t too...

Eldred Street, Highland Park; From California by Choice Los Angeles is an unconventional city. If Europe produced cities as hulking...

15 minutes south of San Francisco lies my home, where I have lived for the past 18 years of my life. It’s a suburb full of warm summer...

In the past five years, I studied in Shanghai, California, and now Ithaca, but I spent my first 16 years in Jiaxing, where I would call...

I have lived in Piscataway, New Jersey for most of my life. My family moved there when I was 5, purchasing our first house after living...

Just over the Patapsco, once you leave Baltimore county and enter Howard, hope grows. With rich schools, high property values, and...

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I do not have many unique stories regarding my hometown, Laixi, to tell. I grew up in a semi-rural, mid-sized town, Laixi, in Shandong...

Stamford Connecticut Early on I lived in one of the few urban areas in Connecticut. Stamford, Connecticut was not a pretty place in the...

Ottawa, Ontario is the place that I grew up and although I have lived in other provinces and now Ithaca, Ottawa will always be the place...

I grew up in a military family, constantly moving from one place to the next. A few years ago, my father was stationed in Quantico,...

Tall, dark, and mysterious- always enchanting her next victim. She is unlike any other. Luring in people from all walks of life with her...

City skyline from Route 17 South in Ramsey, NJ (Fall 2022) I'm from a small suburban town in New Jersey about 20 minutes away from New...

Toronto, Ontario. A place I was lucky enough to call home for over 5 years and a place that is now just over an hour away from my home....

The smell of fresh brew whenever I step off of the airbridge at YVR. The forever crystal blue skyline and temperate shores. The mild rain...