Are you a "city life" person, or prefer living out in the country ??
 

I wanna move to big city soon. I miss all the hustle and bustle... :)

Give it 2 years and i'll probably want to go back to the quiet life again...

I like living in the suburbs.

I grew up in the "country" as a kid. I grew up in rural New Jersey in a town that still has a population under 2k people, has no stop lights, no police department, and no fast food. This sounds great to some people but it it was just utterly ridiculous - There was no choice, and if you wanted anything you had to drive. We had a grocery store but for anything else we had to drive thirty minutes, and even then the selection was limited. The nearest movies was an hour away and because of this we rarely went.

I love the suburbs. I have a Target department store two blocks away, thirty or forty restaurants in a five mile radius, and everything in the world I could ever want (except for a bike shop). Anything else I need is in the next town.

I grew up in the Country, working on farms. Corn fields everywhere.

When I was 18 I moved to Minneapolis had fun, loved the fact I could walk, bus or bike anywhere. Got married, had a kid and felt that the city was not a good place to raise a family, moved back outside the city to the suburbs.

I am now looking to move farther out and get a place with some land.

Funny how wants/needs change the older you get.

I've lived in London, Amsterdam and Barcelona.
I now live in a village of 20 people up a mountain, and my nearest neighbour is a cow.

When I was younger I would have hated it.

I've grown up in concrete jungles and I feel bored after just a few days living out.

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So is mine. Oh wait you meant an actual cow... :winkwink:

Both city and countryside are good. I would like to live in a big or an average-sized city, and be able to make trips to the countryside (like summer house in the mountains, or by a lake / lakes).

If you live in a small city, you don't have access to all the services / companies, and stores. You cant order food, if you have the money (and in a big city you can choose from hundreds of different restaurants), or even get something like a computer mouse.

I prefer low pollution, low crime and low population density, not keen on traffic jams, I like good scenery e.g. mountains and sea views

Did the City-thing as a student, enjoyed it at the time

I live in the suburbs. Not a city person

This is why I love where I live. In fact, it was Lensman himself who sold me on this area. I live outside of Sacramento, California. We have no smog, no traffic, and where I live no crime (My town was listed as fifth safest city in California to live in). Sacramento is half an hour away, Lake Tahoe an hour and a half, and San Francisco about two hours away.

I live in a town of forty thousand people, still have that "small town" feeling (complete with main street) yet have everything we need - shopping, food, entertainment....

Best of all is the weather. We are in a drought, but the weather here is great - chilly in the winter but never any snow, warm in the summer although not too hot. If we really want to see snow we can drive half an hour north and go sledding in the winter, and although it's July 15th it will be about 94 degrees here today.

Could never do city or town living. I have will always love living in the country. If I can see a neighbour's house, its too close.

450k people, many students, very low crime, everything i need within 500 meters - it's perfect where I live

country for me! I enjoy the outdoors a lot!

About 3 months of the year in the 'burbs and 9 months in the country where I can not see a single neighbor.

Grew up on Long Island NY.

(pretty obvious which I prefer)

I like living close by a big city, I pretty much have my whole life with both Toronto and now near Detroit. I can easily hop over to check out a ball game, get some good food in the surrounding areas and still have easy access to an international airport, but not live too close where i'm knee deep in the crime.

There are things I like about living out in the boons, part of me still wants to buy a place out in the mountains in Tennessee at some point, but I don't think i'd like it for long durations honestly.

I live in the suburbs surrounded by rednecks moving back to the city first of the year....

Country for me but i do realize the phrase, "the grass is always greener" didnt come out of thin air.

i like the space of the country but the convenience of the city. though i'd never actually want to live in the city core. the suburbs are city enough for me. i'd love to live far out in the country but driving for a half hour every time you need to buy something sucks. i think the best solution in my case is to get a home in one of those estate communities where the property is like 2 acres but its only a few minutes from amenities.

i think i can live in both places, love to live in the city right now, but i think i will enjoy a bit of peace too

I love sea views. Our apartment over looks the med, the whole east coast of the the Costa Blanca & over the town. I love my view & feel very lucky to live here :thumbsup

I've tried to live in the suburbs and it was boring. It made me totally depressed.

Currently I live in a center of the city (1,5 million people or more) and I am not sure will be able to go somewhere else without problems. As I am getting old, house away from town looks like good idea. Sometimes I drive at those places that look nice and just browse around , but in the evening I feel that it is like punishment compared to city. Where to go, what to do? Yes, there is noise and tension in the city but I can go out at the middle of the night and choose what I will eat (Thai , Lebanese or Chineese food,burgers,pancakes,ice cream,pizza)... go to mall , wash my car, or just sit in the park . There is even night swimming in open olympic size pool 500 meters from here).

Well, another problem is that i don't have time, but feeling that you can choose means a lot to me.

Hey, I've just watched Costa Blanca few days ago and read some interesting stuff. I was wondering, what would be the price (average) of 80 square meters apartement in those tall buildings looking at sea?

No one gives a fuck what your loser ass thinks, fuck off.

Both have their draw, but when I'm ready to retire, I want to go back to the country. Get a few acres in the mountains and grow some weeds!

The same here (500 meters is too much for me, everything I need is closer here - 4 supermarkets, two barbershops, 3 clinics (including 2 dental ones), 2 auto repair/cleaning services, a subway etc :)).

I'm used to live here:









P.S. As you can see, no drunk scum like in the UK or Ireland, not crazy immigrants like in Paris, no mad police shooting people like in the USA. I really love my city :thumbsup

Both.

In the city til concrete fever hits, then out in the country til hay fever hits. LOL

I've always lived within 30 mins of a major City and thought it was enough for me without having to live in the City. Then I moved to Toronto and all that changed. I love living in Cities, everything is on your door step, nothing is more than a 20 min walk away or 10-15 minute subway ride. Someday soon I want to live in a major City again, not in North America or the UK tho, ideally Asia or central Europe.

I like living in a small to mid sized city surrounded by a large population (and then the woods around that). This way it can support a large amount of services but isn't over run with traffic and bullshit from as many people living in the center.

Crime in the city center has it's uses

The prices really vary, between $80k to over a million.

There's some beautiful 2 and 3 bedroom detached villas with private pools across the street from our home, they're nearly finished building the plot of 40 homes, at prices between 169k & 209k.

Very modern, very pretty & ocean views from the roof balconies, you can see over the 'La manga' rock :thumbsup

that is precisely what I've heard and it sounded incredible to get such a view for that money. I was not sure that guy that was talking was reliable, but from what you say, it seems he was.

i like living in the woods. the air is way clearer breathing it in. you can feel the difference. im about to start my travel. got my gopro and some other gadgets for pictures.

Ideally, I'd love to live out in nature somewhere, but would like to have decent accessibility to city stuff. Hate the hustle and bustle, but am totally dependent on city activity, especially going to metal shows! :small-smi:small-smi

Yeah I'm sure Moscow is a utopia without any crime or corruption LOL. You're just showing the center of Moscow. That doesn't mean shit. Even the biggest third world shitholes look great if you go to the center of the capital city. How do the outer suburbs look like? :)

Indeed, sounds like your acquaintance is reliable. There's even lower priced villas & apartments further up & down the coast, in less populated areas :thumbsup

The air is another reason why we moved here to Spain. The area I live has many salt lakes, it's voted the 'cleanest air' in Europe for many years by some Swedish environment guidance :thumbsup

I also prefer living in the suburbs,too quiet for me in the country

Although I've lived all over Canada...born in farm country...raised (mostly) in the country...moved to the big city in my early 20s. Seen the best and worst of both worlds. After ten years in the city...I couldn't wait to get out.

Now I'm in a small city of 50k - just right. The open country is just down the street, but shopping and amenities are close by, too.

And a 15min. drive puts me amongst several million summer tourists at Niagara Falls...in case I get bored and want to freak watch. :1orglaugh

Have lived in Chicago since birth. Positive= Tons of shit to do, mad women. Negative= Traffic

Lived with an ex-gf south of Chicago for 2 1/2 years and although I dug the more laid back peaceful aspect after a while got old. Would go into town for anything and every other car would honk/wave as everyone knew each other. Stores etc... closed way earlier than Chicago. Not much to do there and the reason country women are down to just drink/fuck as ain't shit else to do.

Would say if your single big city da way to go as more to see/do, bigger relationship pool to pick from.

Would say if trying to raise kids smaller town probably smarter as better schools, less trouble for them to get into.

So I'd probably go...

Single=City
Family Stage=Close Suburb so ya get more peaceful environment, better schools but still close enough to shoot into the city for the fun summer shit.
Retire Mode=Farmland, sit in your rocker with a fifth and yell to kids "Get off of my lawn little bastards" :2 cents:

It is funny cycle when you think about it:
kid get raised in a countrty/burb, moves to the city, then when he haves kids moves to the burb/counry. Then his kids do the same :)

grew up & have always lived in the city with occasional visits to rural areas to get my nature fix.

A lot of corruption here, but less crime (murder, rape and robbery) than in NYC which is 4x times smaller.

A center of Moscow is bigger than some small EU countries :) 15% of whole Russian population live here. BTW, I live not in the center, but my place looks even better. Here is a Moscow river and two outstanding parks with clean air, amazing castles etc. This and this (click the links). Yes man, this is also Moscow and I love it :)

As I told somewhere else, there is almost no villages in Russia. Those that remain are almost dead. Mostly old people and alcoholics live there. So in contrast to the USA, most of Russians live in big cities like Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Kazan etc. If you want to know how they look like, use Google images :)

The most of territory is just unpopulated (you can walk for 1000's of kilometers and never meet a single person):

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I ain't ready for the country ...

Perfect sweet spot for European city size :thumbsup

Mosacow: 11,5 million. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow
New York City: 8,5 million Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City

I know you will post some BS in response, but the most funny thing is that when you wrote that you intentions was to boast how BIG CITY is Moscow and how much SMALL TIME is NY in comparison :1orglaugh
You are transparent like that, always inflating, twisting things.

You are one of those guys we all know, the guy from big city who looks down on smaller town guys with the intention that he himself is better just because he si from big city. He always would boast about his big city and look down on smaller cities.

Of course you even manage to bring it to the next level, for example when you pretend to be surprised that there are places where you could not buy icecream 24/7 :1orglaugh :


Suburbs is not the same thing as villages.

depends on the mood im in.

I can take the city or the sticks in short durations. I like it in between.

I don't want to hear police sirens every 30 seconds, but I also don't want to drive 50 miles to get a gallon of milk.

Right now im live about 45 minutes out of NYC. Same as bronco...I dont live the city and I dont love the country. I like some population with not as much congestion

as do I , I have the best of both worlds, as I am surrounded by about 100+ acres of forest, a creek in my back yard , yet 5 mins from shopping etc :thumbsup

From your wikipedia links:

Moscow: 2,511 km2
New York City: 1,214 km2

So Moscow is more than 4x times larger than NYC. Isn't that correct? If you don't think so, your math education sucks a long time, son :winkwink:

I'm not pretend, because I have a supermarket at the 1st floor of my apartment house. The only thing you can't buy there after 11pm is alcohol. Everything else, including the ice-cream of course is available 24/7.

P.S. The population of Moscow is about 15 millions (non-residents are also counted because they are live here) :)