How To Learn to Love Your City
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
It wasn't long after Melody Warnick moved to Blacksburg, Va., that she realized its nickname—"Bleaksburg"—wasn't a joke. Feeling stuck, she devised a research-based experiment to acclimate to her new city. On this episode: Melody explains how she went from hating Blacksburg to loving it (and how you can deepen your connection to the place where you live).
Listen to part one of our conversation here: How to Move to a New City.
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| 0:00.0 | Shouldn't people in the UK enjoy the same access to medical innovation as people elsewhere in the world? |
| 0:06.0 | We think so. |
| 0:07.0 | But sadly, the UK lags behind, missing out on life-changing treatments for blood cancer, breast cancer, rare disease and for Alzheimer's. |
| 0:16.0 | The UK has a choice, change that or accept it. |
| 0:20.0 | At the ABPI, we believe in changing it. |
| 0:22.6 | Find out how the UK pharmaceutical industry is working towards a better outcome at our common goal.org. |
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| 1:01.0 | Sometimes when we land in a place that doesn't immediately feel like a fit, we have to figure out how do we put down roots here? |
| 1:10.2 | How do we go from, I can't believe I'm living |
| 1:13.1 | in Blacksburg, Virginia, to feeling like, oh, this actually is a home and I love it. |
| 1:19.9 | Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. As many of our listeners know, I moved about a year |
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