'Here' and 'there'

I grew up was raised in the city. Just about everyone had a house with two identical apartments (one upstairs, one down) that sat a few feet from the sidewalk footpath on a lot that was probably 25 or 30 feet wide--you could barely walk between the houses on one side. This is what I knew as life for many years. So, you can understand how breath-taking I think the scenery here is.

You don't get wild horses roaming the countryside in Chicago. It just doesn't happen.

I only saw sights like these clouds when passing through the Smoky Mountains. Here, I can drive for a couple of hours and see it daily, if I choose.

But, of course, there is a down side. This is not a 'side road'. This is the main road in the National Park area (that's a city, not a park...).

Life wouldn't be so interesting if there weren't so many differences between 'here' and 'there'.