Should Annie Schmidt leave Windy Creek, Colorado?

Windy Creek is a small town of 620 residents

Windy Creek is a beautiful river. Its water in summer comes from melting snow in the mountains. The scenery is great.

The winters are cold with plenty of snow.

Annie loves skiing, canoeing and back-packing.

Half the people in Windy Creek are aged over 50!

Windy Creek only has an elementary (junior) school. There is 4 stores – foodstore, hardware, clothes and hairdresser. There is a petrol station and a bar.

The nearest cinema and fashion shops are 80 miles away in Laramie.

Annie has 3 uncles, 4 aunts, 3 grandparents and 7 cousins in Windy Creek. Annie loves family get togethers.

Annie has been to College and is a qualified business manager. Her boyfriend who she met at college lives in Arizona.

Colorado

Annie’s best friend – Beth – has got married and lives on a ranch about 15 miles away.

Annie works part time as a waitress in a diner. She cannot afford a car on her wages.

Annie is ambitious and does not want to waste her education. She has been offered a job as a trainee manager for a car leasing firm in Tucson, Arizona.

Should she stay or should she go?

Annie does love Windy Creek.