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Hi,
The City Or the Countryside?
Personally I want to live in the countryside, I'm a nature lover!
How about you, where do you want to live?

I've lived in both, and I couldn't wait to move back to the city when I had a chance. I think it all boils down to opportunities. In the country there are few opportunities for friendship, relationships, study, work and play. The air in the country is cleaner and it's more peaceful so I suppose it's better for retirement, but I'm not an old man yet. If my girlfriend told me she's pregnant with triplets or more I'd almost certainly move to the country because we could get a house that's the right size. My sister's always wanted to move her family outside the city because she thinks it's better to raise children there, but I disagree on the opportunity front. Living in the country makes you think like the country.

Basically, if I had to find a house within the year for three children, if I was semi-retired, or if some freak opportunity arose for study or work, then I would move back there, but right now I'm enjoying actually having something to do with my time.

Having said that I'm moving somewhere remote in the summer for work experience, and it'll be nice to get a break from, well, spending huge amounts of money in the city. Good for a break, bad for living; there, you have it.

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Suburbs dude, picket fence and all. That's the American dream. I would feel too isolated in the countryside. My girlfriend is from a small rural town and there's very little to do. The city on the other hand is too crowded, though I know some people like the accessibility of things being close together.

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I'm thinking a lot about this actually, because I'm trying to pick a college to go to. I've lived in a variety of different places too.

For the most part, I'm impartial. I like the quieter, more laid-back atmosphere of rural areas. On the other hand, I like the different things available in more urban areas. I think I'd probably be happy in any location. I currently live in a bit of a suburb, which has about 16,000 people in it. It's a very nice area, but I do often wish that there was a larger city near by.

Ideally, I'd like to eventually live in a community of a size similar to my current one, but within an hour/45 minutes of a larger city, say Minneapolis/St. Paul, Milwaulkee or Chicago.

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I'm a big city boy, always have been and always will be. The quiet of the country does nothing for me, and while clean air and open spaces might be nice, that's pretty much the only other thing going for it.

I wouldn't know what to do with myself, basically. I'm not a very outdoors type person, to the point that I've only ever been camping once and the general experience bored me to death. Nothing against nature or anything of the sort, but I'll take the traffic and the crowds, skyscrapers and noisy clubs over it any day.

As someone else put it, there's simply more opportunities for essentially everything.

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The Stores! Times Square! Most importantly, I'm never be some domineering individual's wife so I'll certainly live the rest of my days living the city life. What can I say? The country's a nice place to visit for the serene beauty of it all but I couldn't so easily say goodbye to the wonderful world of resources, conveniences, variety and entertainments the city provides for us. I may be a bit reclusive individual but in my opinion the country's more isolated than secluded.

Still, I must say that cities are awfully terrible horrible looking things. They certainly could use a little more architectural class and coherence. Economic feasibility and people's transient individuality really override the potential thematic greatness large structured areas have. The last truly impressive structures I've personally noticed are governmental buildings, financially based institutions and historic landmarks left behind from eras where they must've had far more taste. The natural beauty of hilly meadows, fields full of flowers and some nearby trees really does win out in this sense in the long run, clean air is healthier and smells nicer when you take in a deep breath of it. If I could be a sort of magician, capable of fulfilling most, if not all of my material desires self-sufficiently, I'd really give the whole matter another look over. Although I'd still give the manner second thoughts, at least because I've had the good fortune to live in a very consistently temperate environment, which is something I know I take for granted more than I really should.

Another point of interest or really disinterest rather is just people. I really do love to get to know individuals and make friends, if I can find some common grounds to be the foundation of such a thing. People though, large groups of people, well they're just so irrelevant. You pass by people you'll never say a word to or even see ever again and they could be anywhere between between being monstrously abominable or absolute saints. Just the uncertainty of the matter is irritating, let alone the fact that nobody has the time of day to just stop 'n chat. I'm just as guilty of it and the situation is entirely understandable, as people just don't simply have the time in their limited lives to meet up with every other person on the face of the planet but that doesn't mean it leaves me with a very tasteful impression. In the country, that would be out of sight and therefore out of mind, at the very least and the few people surrounding me would have a lot more personification than that of empty gaps in the unknown.

So yeah, definitely the city but very, very, very barely.

This post has been edited by Tonepoet on 23rd January 2010 23:15

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Quote (Tonepoet @ 24th January 2010 00:14)

Still, I must say that cities are awfully terrible horrible looking things. They certainly could use a little more architectural class and coherence. Economic feasibility and people's transient individuality really override the potential thematic greatness large structured areas have. The last truly impressive structures I've personally noticed are governmental buildings, financially based institutions and historic landmarks left behind from eras where they must've had far more taste.

That's true in some ways. I think it depends more on which city. Some cities here in the UK are densely populated because people rammed into them in the 19th century looking to work in mills and factories, and a result the housing looks like some Orwellian nightmare town. 'The cities that shouldn't have been.' There are some really pretty cities also, like Edinburgh, York and Cambridge. As a generalisation I have to agree with you that usually they're a bit of a blotch on the landscape, but regardless they're still better than the country.

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I submit that New York city lit up at night, or Montreal as viewed from the top of Mount Royal, either at sunrise or sunset, is more than beautiful enough to compensate for any lack of natural beauty. That may just be my opinion on the subject matter, but one of my absolute favorite forms of photography is definitely cityscaping.

A good nightlife is essential, anywhere I live. I forgot to mention that in the first entry, but basically, I want to be able to go out and do something different whenever I feel like it. Be it bar-hopping and pubcrawling, out to a restaurant with the family or girlfriend, clubbing, or catching a movie, there need to be things to keep me occupied and entertained.

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As a recluse, writer, and all around eremite, naturally the country has more appeal to me than the city.

However, maintaining urban connections in a rural environment is key.

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you nkow what you didnt put on there. is the out-skirts of the city. i love living on the outskirts. you got your city on one side and country on the other, but as for now. i live in the city. but do plan on moving to the outskirts.

Florida is nice. But thought about moving to Vegas where my cousin lives. But really a castle would be nice.

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For me, the ideal living arrangement would be to have a house in the city, and a house near a beach, so I could have either sun or streets. But since I don't have the money to decide, I'll just live where I can. I love the idea of living in NYC, but I've always lived in Tennessee and enjoyed it.

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I live in the city and while I get more acclimated to it every day, I do indeed still feel a bit uncomfortable about it all.

Deep, deep, inside, I'm just a lame suburb kid for life.

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I find your lack of faith disturbing...

I'm definitely a fan of the suburbs of a large city (I'm from the suburbs of San Jose, a city of just shy of a million, if that gives you any indication as to what I'm thinking of). I want to be close enough to go to the city without prohibitive investments of time, but far enough away that I don't have to deal with the logistics of living inside a big city.

Hey, even though this is a spambot, it's not a bad topic.

I spent the first nineteen years of my life living ten miles outside of a city of 100k. It was really great, as I didn't have many living neighbors who weren't also family, and I was a fifteen minute drive away from most of the things I would have wanted from the city as a child/teenager.

When I moved away for my last two years of university, I found myself in a city around the same size, but I was actually in the city. Being a university town, though, I liked being in the city but not really all that much. After that I moved back to the original city for a few years, and that was pretty okay as well.

In 2004, though, I moved to the "big" city, I guess - first to within about fifteen miles of New York City, and then later to within about five miles of downtown Boston. I'm pretty sure I will never be able to go back. The job opportunities, the cultural activities, the, well, shopping... I can deal with the hour-long round trip every day for work for everything else I get out of it.

The downside, and it's a big one, at least here in Boston, that real estate sucks and I'd sure like to own a house soon. One of the condos in my development just went on the market for almost $400k. This is a 1200 square foot condo. For four hundred thousand dollars. That part I can live without.

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I'd like to say that I lived in a small town, but it wasn't big enough to be considered a town, so more of a hollow (sp?) it was nice, but not very convenient as it was the middle of nowhere. Anyway, I still live in a town, but spend most of my time in the city, which I prefer. It's just more convenient and easy to get around in, and you don't run into people who know you; which is also nice ^-^

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Quote (Rangers51 @ 1st February 2010 12:02)

Hey, even though this is a spambot, it's not a bad topic.

Well, I was wondering why someone with three posts would be banned already... Guess I have an answer now.

I was born in Austin, Tx. I live in a rural "city" (city government is under the delusion that it's growing) now called Texarkana. My parents decided that since my mother's family lived here it would be a good idea to move here since I didn't have any family in Austin. Long story short, my family disowned me a long while back because they are all crazy (no, seriously, some are in loony bins... it's in the genes... thankfully, I didn't get that part myself) and hate me because I'm sane so I don't conform. I totally could have done without all that, and moving to this town has probably been the worst mistake my parents have ever made.

Sooooo, I prefer the city over rural towns any day of the week. There is nothing to discuss. The city has a million things to do, and usually, better schools. This is my last semester here before I leave for The University of North Texas in Denton. Very close to Dallas is where I want to be. After I leave, I will NEVER live here again. Hate small towns.

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One of the condos in my development just went on the market for almost $400k. This is a 1200 square foot condo. For four hundred thousand dollars. That part I can live without.

I know right.. My girlfriend is from South Korea. When I was over there we would go stay with her Aunt in Suwon (suburb of Seoul), who told me one day they paid a little over 500,000USD for an APARTMENT that's about 3/4 the size of the condo you're talking about. Thinking it was a language miscommunication (on my part), I asked my girlfriend to translate what she was saying and it turns out I wasn't wrong.
That's just a normal apartment. When Koreans get rich they drop money on name brand stuff. Think about what a Samsung, Hyundai, or LG apartment costs (No, I'm not kidding. They do own apartments).
Real-estate is ridiculous in major cities these days, no matter where you go, I guess.

This post has been edited by Sephiroth on 10th February 2010 06:07

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