Two Posts in One Day?!?

So, I bought a new bike this Summer and am experiencing Copenhagen on a proper bike. Whoaw. I bought the bike after realizing that the only way I can keep from certain insanity is through movement...thus the bike. On my way home from work today, I took a route I used to take about seven years ago, and it really struck me how little things change in this city. I biked from the somewhat orderly street of Gammel Kongevej, through Vesterbro, to the more disorderly Istedgade, which is still seedy and creepy, past DGI Byen, which is this humungous sports center, past the Central Train Station, along Tivoli, through the Danish House of Parliament, to Christianshavn. So little has changed in the ten years I have been here. Someone once said to me, after returning after seven years, "The only thing that's changed is the metro and the price of beer."
Sure, Tivoli has a few new, high rides. Sure some of the roads have even been renovated, and it seems as though something is happening to the New Carlsberg Museum...but truthfully and compared to New York? This city is rather static...changing yes, but definitely at a snail's pace. I'm not complaining, but for this New Yorker who is used to overnight skyline facelifts...it is a bit disconcerting. I'm so used to change, something happening, new people, new buildings, new rides, new experiences...and that is definitely what Copenhagen is not. Copenhagen is about stability, stability, stability and for someone who has not tried it before, it is nice, but...it can sometimes be disconcerting. I'm not saying that this is everyone's experience here, I am aware that it has a lot to do with this particular juncture I am in my life...
Some people leave, they sometimes come back, but the majority stay put, erecting their little families, going about the day to day events that compose their lives, people become very focused on themselves and their families...very little drama, very little happening...it's nice, but definitely not what I'm used to and then I realize the biggie of them all: I have been here ten years...I too am now a semi-permanent fixture, I too have attained stability.
So how does it feel Ms. Brown?
Well, as I said before, pretty friggin disconcerting...but again, the measures we will go through for our kids. Sigh.
farvel,
the lab

P.S. I don't believe someone had the gall to open another bakery in Christianshavn!!!!