I know I always wonder how far away the Target is.

It's the question I tend to ask my husband when he starts talking about places we could live/ buy a house one day if we decided to actually go outside of a beach town. I usually end with the question "yeah, well where is the Target?" Because any girl knows she can't be more than too far from a store that provides not only cleaning supplies and candles but cheap clothing and DVD's.

And Logan Jenkins agrees (somewhat), now a days us young folk tend to look for a city life, not a country life. We are all wondering where the nearest Starbucks is (or, if we're cool, nearest neighborhood coffee shop owned and run locally, screw corporations!).

From Sign On San Diego by Logan Jenkins:

A recent spot on National Public Radio advanced a pretty intuitive but still interesting point.
Most young adults would rather live in the pulsating heart of the city than the catatonic suburbs or, heaven forbid, the country. Having grown up with “Friends,” “Seinfeld” and “Sex and the City,” Gen-Xers romanticize downtowns, which they don't envision as dangerous, congested and creepy but rather as safe, easy to navigate and authentic. In a word, cool.


Yeah, yeah, we just want to be cool. And live in a loft in the middle of Manhattan and work as waitresses and up and coming actors and date each other. Or wear really expensive shoes.