My love of Louisville is pretty apparent (*cough* I run a website called Consuming Louisville). I’m far from alone though in loving this place. I’ve lived in other cities where the most frequent responses to questions like “how do you like here?” are things like “it’s ok” or “it’s not so ad” or even flat out “this place sucks.” Occasionally you’d get an “I love it here” sprinkled in but those were few and far between. In Louisville the love to hate ratios are exactly reversed. For every “Louisville is ok” I hear five “I love Louisville!” or “Louisville is great!” declarations.

All these feelings of goodwill toward Louisville got me thinking. My list of reasons for loving Louisville is long enough to stretch down Bardstown Road from Douglass Loop to Highland Avenue but why do other people love it? I wondered why other people are in love with this city. So I asked.

I made a list of smart, interesting, engaged people and I asked them to tell me one thing they love about Louisville. I asked politicians, musicians, artists, business owners, ad people, bloggers, moguls, community leaders and people from all walks of life. A fair number totally ignored my polite questions. I’ll try not to hold it against them though because many other kick ass people not only said yes but proceeded to give amazing, interesting answers.

I cannot wait to share these answers and share I will. Starting tomorrow Consuming Louisville will be presenting a series titled “One Thing I Love About Louisville.” I’ve got many “One Things” lined up to publish with more coming still coming in. If you’d like to contribute a “One Thing I Love About Louisville” drop me a line.

I’m so very excited about this series. I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I do.  Each one of us who loves Louisville  probably has a different reason for loving our city. Some of these reasons overlap, some are completely unique but all of them are interesting. I think we can all enjoy learning about other people’s reasons for loving the city and we may even find some brand new reasons to add to our own personal “why I love Louisville” lists.