Are you a "city person" or a "country person"?

[Crackleslap]

City person. Lived in a city my entire life.

[Wyrt]

I feel like there is stuff in between city and BFE.

[Kellhound]

I've lived in both, and you cannot pay me enough to live in a big city. They are great for going to now and then, but I will take a smaller town or the country any day of the week. I like my sanity, my health, and my time.

[Deleted]

I used to live in the Hague, which is one of the main big cities in Holland, now I live in auchencairn, which is the extreme opposite. I basically live on a farm land, though we're not farmers.

I don't like either, while it's nice and quiet here, there isn't anything to do, and without a car live would just be shit, imo. Even with a cat, it's still 20 minutes driving to a small town, and 40 to a bigger one.

Big cities are dirty and noisy, and they smell very different opposed to the country side.
I'd say I prefer small towns which are lively enough but not overly busy or quiet. I'll be living here for quite a while, but certainly not for my whole live, I'd go nuts.


Tldr; small town/cities.

[Airlick]

Born and raised in a small town, now living in a city and hating it with a passion.

[Selastan]

Country, for the sole sake of driving. I hate driving streets and highways. I have to put up with redneck neighbors, too, but its better than city liberals.

[Awbee]

Small town person. In the range between 5.000 - 30.000 is nice. Usually has everything you need during the week (grocery shopping, post office) while offering a nice athmosphere and access to nature.

I should note that this is in a European country where population is much, much more dense than in the US. I wanna live in a rather small town, but a somewhat bigger place (30.000 - 100.000) should be reachable within 20 minutes or so, for when you wanna go to the cinema or a fancy restaurant. And a really big city should be reached within an hour, for when you wanna go to the airport, a museum, a music concert, or you need a specialised hospital.

I could not imagine living really "out in the middle of nowhere", like it's possible in countries like the US or Canada. Where you can drive for hours without coming upon a town bigger than 10.000 inhabitants or so. I would feel very lost. But I also wouldn't want to live in a big city, it's dirty, noisy, polluted, potentially dangeorus, and just too cramped.

[Deleted]

Born and raised in a small town, now living in a city and hating it with a passion.

I was born and raised in a small town (~7000 people max.), and was also living there for the vast majority of my life.
Now I am living in a city and I love it; all the added convenience (having stores for everything etc.), much better public transportation and so on really make me not want to go back to living in a small town again. I visited my family a while ago, and it just felt sooo out-of-the-way now that I am used to something else.

[Raldazzar]

certainly not City. between the two I'd say country. but I'm more of a 'small town' person. not like deserted tumbleweed town.. average population. links to city.. but.. not in the city? :P

[Dawon]

city, I hate the countryside... if i'm leaving the city it's for a nice beach-resort or up mountains for skiing. Forest and green wastelands are for animals, not humans!

[Deleted]

I've always lived in the country since the day I was born and I prefer to keep living in the country, but on holidays or a day off I don't mind to visit a city but to live there....hell no

[Dismembered]

Was born in a city with almost 1 million people population, moved now to a small town with like 14.000 population and I really love that it's so quiet etc.

[Witchblade77]

Yeah, I'm sorry to tell you, but no. You would only ever say that if you never lived in a city of 2 million +.

depends on a city. mine is actualy smaller the the poster you are replying to, but because we are right next to vacation area, we literally have nearly everything that I could get in NYC with main difference of having to drive while in NYC, I would take public transit or walk. but its something that my mom especially didn't realize. she though that just because we essentially live in a woods, that there's nothing here, but... nothing could be further from the truth. and the thing about big cities is that... people tell me "but the travel distance! yeah, I used to live in Brooklyn and other then local takeout? most things were at least an hour away on a subway. it used to take me an hour and a half to get to work (technically 50 minutes... IF the train wasn't late, IF we didn't randomly get held at the station, or switched to local track, or rerouted and a number of other shitty things about NYC transit that I do not miss at ALL). all the lovely things in Manhattan - travel, travel, travel. and heck we even have supermarkets that are open 24/7 so if I get a sudden craving for a specific food at 3am - not a problem at all.

but to original post. i'm sort of a combination. I do love my conveniences and accessibility, but I also love the space, the privacy, the quiet, the AIR that living in the country provides. so I guess out of 10 - its 7 to country, 3 to city :P

[Lex Icon]

city person i guess but i couldn't afford it.. but don't really care as long as the things i need are within walking distance.

[Gully Man]

I was born and raised in London but now live outside a small town in the north of Sweden. I still love the city but have grown to be more of a country person. For me the ideal scenario is living outside a city in the countryside but close enough that you can get on the train for 1-2 hours if you feel like going into the city.

[Airlick]

I was born and raised in a small town (~7000 people max.), and was also living there for the vast majority of my life.
Now I am living in a city and I love it; all the added convenience (having stores for everything etc.), much better public transportation and so on really make me not want to go back to living in a small town again. I visited my family a while ago, and it just felt sooo out-of-the-way now that I am used to something else.

Well, it probably depends on the city. I hate the mentality of so many people here, they are arrogant and selfish beyond anything I've seen while living in my home town, and they simply lack manners. They probably don't represent the majority of people, but I see them frequently enough to know that there's much more of them than in towns. Or maybe it's just more apparent because of the anonimity - if you're one of 2 millions, chances are you'll never be seen in a given place by a given person twice. If you're one of 30 thousands, your behaviour will eventually become known if you are a persistant scumbag...

I had the advantage of living in a town small enough that even if I didn't have a car, I would be able to walk everywhere on foot, go by bike or catch one of the very few buses. The town is also only 50 kilometres away from the capital and is well commuted, so it wasn't that inconvenient - if I needed to go to a highly specialized doctor (and it was rarely the case since we have a nice hospital here), it would take me less than an hour to get there. Right now you can buy everything on the Internet, so that's another inconvenience that disappeared thanks to digitalization.

[Sail into the wind]

I live in a city that is barely above the minimum population bracket required for it to be considered a city, which is ~50,000 inhabitants. I like to think that we have the best of both worlds - nature is never really too far, and there are also many services available within a short driving or cycling distance.

I consider myself to be a city dweller, since I could not do without the convenience. I'm also pretty big on shopping for specialized/niche stuff, so I might move to an even bigger urban center someday. The only real drawback would be the constant noise and activity, but that's nothing a high-quality pair of fluffy earplugs can't solve.

[Gestopft]

City. Western Washington from Tacoma to Everett is basically one giant metro area, so even in the suburbs you're still really close to anything and everything you'd need. I enjoy getting out into nature, but overall prefer city life if I had to choose.

[dwightyo39]

I'm more of a small town guy (currently live in an area of about 50k people). I haven't been to a large city in a decade, unless you count driving around the outskirts of Portland in route to the coast.

There are some fun things to do in major cities, but it's not where I want to live. Any time I visit one, I can't wait to leave after the concert/sporting event is over.

[Ave07]

City

My cousins live outside the city which is like a 40 minute drive and everything there feels backwards and behind.