One Thing I Love About Louisville: Margaret Coble

Margaret Coble is a talented, creative artist and an all around cool person. We're lucky she landed here in Louisville.

One thing I love about Louisville is the relatively cheap cost of living. Having landed here due to Hurricane Katrina and being a 16-year resident of a-formerly-cheap-place-to-live, New Orleans, one of the reasons I ended up staying here instead of going back to New Orleans was that I could no longer afford to live in the new New Orleans, post-Katrina, where rents and utilities had skyrocketed, and I could afford to live here! (There were other, personal, reasons, but this definitely factored in.) As a part-time artist/crafter and part-time freelance music journalist, I'm often just scraping by, financially. Reasonable rents and utilities - and all the other factors that go into being able to live cheaply in a city of Louisville's size - go a long way towards enabling a person to live a creative lifestyle here, which in turn contributes to the growth of the artistic and cultural community here. Which is another thing I love about Louisville (its thriving art/cultural scene), but I guess that would be for another entry...

-Margaret Coble, artbymags.com