If you're talking about better days well...
I just moved here from... NEW YORK BLAH!!!
So man can I appreciate the outdoors and the fact that I can get up to a beautiful mountain view and drive (without being honked at or given the finger once) to a beautiful clean fishing hole and bring home a salmon for dinner.
When I lived in new york, I used to have to 'clean' my spot on the beach for surf fishing. I would move old tires, hats, beer bottles etc. away from me. I would throw all of it into a garbage if I could but, there were no garbages. None standing at least.
I used to have to check how much fish I ate a month because of mercury poisoning, and the days that I caught crab that didnt smell of fesces...im not joking, I was happy.
Beaches and piers were so busy at times that people would cast over your shoulder... I know people here talk about people fishing too close on the frasier or 'the gong show' but seriously, have you ever had another fisherman so close you can smell his breath? I have and it isnt pleasant.
Its hard to see sometimes how good we've got it, anywhere we are, if we stay for too long. I know that this place, BC, has really put a spell on me. I moved here in March and it took about 2 months before I was saying...Geez, I want to retire here...Im 28
. Thats how much I love this place.
So to answer your question, YES!! Some, like myself, do. And I will fully appreciate for as long as Im here. If ever I get a little complacent (sp.) Ill think of fishing next to someones tire on a beach in brooklyn...geez. It saddens me to remember.
Your post reminds me...I have NEVER had prawns fresh out of the ocean...
Next on my 'to do' list.