Stand in the place that you live, think about direction...

I've always enjoyed JR's posts on Mr. Stamford so I'm happy to see he busted out on his own with Streets of Stamford.

I have to offer a slight rebuttal to his Blanford post though (with all the fellow blogger love I can muster brother). I think complaining about Stamford being boring is actually more boring than Stamford at this point.

If someone thinks their town is boring, I would ask what are they doing about it? Are you waiting for a corporation or your government to come in and entertain you or are you starting clubs, or leagues, or events yourself?

A savvy business person might move in to fill a market, but its a big step to think some quote unquote "interesting people" will want to move to a place you think isn't interesting and change it. Thats a lot of steps, skip a couple and you be that person.

Contrast this with an article about the success of the Fairfield County Happy Hour Club in today's Advocate. Guy moves to the area, thinks its hard to meet people and in a year has a group of 700 wanting to meet him out. Another example, some guys wanted a better place to practice their hobby and successfully lobbied the city to build a skate park.

Hell, there must be a market for at least half the stuff on the wish lists we run off. The ultimate step here would be to start a business that caters to one of these ideas. Anyone down for a career change? I don't think Stamford would miss one more Marketing person.