Friday, September 2, 2011

Top five reasons why Ann Arbor is not in the middle of nowhere. (Alternate title: It’s not a cultural pit! They have Asian food!)

5. There are two Targets, a Walmart, a Trader Joe’s, a Whole Foods, and an Ikea within twenty minutes. Everything our pedestrian married selves could desire. Not to mention the way-too-cool-for-us Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, et cetera downtown A2 center.

4. Borders was founded here! Oh wait...well, I got a dayplanner for 75% off.

3. Detroit, while potentially as scary as everyone around here seems to think (I’ve yet to venture out there), is definitely a major metropolitan city, and only 35-40 minutes away.

2. It’s beautiful and woodsy, and the Huron River runs straight through town, but it still manages to be walkable and urban. The central campus, where the law school is located, is neo-Gothic wonderfulness with all the deciduous trees you know are going to be spectacular in the fall.

1. There is boba. Proof:

Yesterday we stumbled upon not one, but two bubble tea proprietors. I also timidly dashed into an Asian foods store the other day, haphazardly grabbing Want-Want and Bin-Bin crackers as I tried to track down some mochi. I’m never more aware of my whiteness than when I’m in an Asian market, but my deep and abiding love for certain products overrides my self-conscious sense of trespassing. Sorry for being clueless and white, cute Asian checkout guy!

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