Living in the (little) Big City — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal

A special series.Living in the (little) Big City — The North Star Reports – by Katherine LaFleur. Sponsored by The College of St. Scholastica and The Middle Ground Journal

[Signs reading “Independècia és dignitat” (Independence is dignity) hang from many Catalonian balconies, not only here in Barcelona but all throughout the autonomous community.]

Coming from a big-small town such as Duluth, I’m used to seeing housing on a spectrum. The variations are almost limitless: big house, little house, apartment, duplex, big yard, a patch of grass before the sidewalk, etc. I was lucky enough to be raised in a mix of it all: moving from a small house in Duluth’s Central Hillside to a beautiful home in the Woodland neighborhood and again back to the Hillside to a dinky, albeit beloved, apartment with a list of ailments longer than its luxuries. No matter where I’ve lived, I’ve always marveled…