Country or City?

Mallory0418
Mallory0418 Posts: 723 Member
edited October 5 in Chit-Chat
Where do you prefer? I'm outside of DC right now and I'm not liking it much. I miss my country home in Illinois. No one around here understands why I like it so much because there "can't be anything to do out there". I guess I just grew up learning to go out and entertain myself...(Ahem, corn-field-truck-pull-sledding anyone? :laugh: ) What about you guys? Country or city living?

Edit: For my country people, what's your favorite thing you've come up with to do? Same question for you city folks.
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  • PanteraGirl
    PanteraGirl Posts: 566 Member
    Country all the way even though I live in the city right now.....we have plans to at some point be in the country!!
  • sandrahover
    sandrahover Posts: 33 Member
    Country. For sure. I get the same thing.."don't you get bored??". ha! Never :smile:
  • knickels1987
    knickels1987 Posts: 212 Member
    ♥ the country!
  • cw_london
    cw_london Posts: 8
    City, love living in London
  • p0stdramatic
    p0stdramatic Posts: 372
    Country!
  • GetThinKim
    GetThinKim Posts: 47
    I live in the country just now, but I used to live in the city! I definitely preferred the city, but then I'm an 18 year old girl so I want the social life that comes with the city :P
  • Purpleflipflops
    Purpleflipflops Posts: 563 Member
    Oh, I love the city! The lights, the sounds! It puts you in a Daze! :love:
  • bbbgamer
    bbbgamer Posts: 582 Member
    Country boy here, but living in a big city. I cant wait to get back!
  • vaderandbill
    vaderandbill Posts: 1,063 Member
    I live in a small city (40,000 ppl) and I hate it. 200 acres in Montana would be just fine with me!
  • Indy_Mario
    Indy_Mario Posts: 532 Member
    I'd say city life, but I like retreating into the country when I need a little R&R.
    What I really prefer is suburban life, because you're far way from the city to avoid all the hectic stuff, but close enough to go paint the town every now and then. And the same with the country!
  • lowliar
    lowliar Posts: 26
    I got the same "Don't you get bored?" routine when I moved to the city, but I personally found smaller towns were more entertaining. I don't care much for absolute farm towns with no stores or anything, but I like suburban type areas.
  • _JamieB_
    _JamieB_ Posts: 417 Member
    COUNTRY!!!!!!
  • Mallory0418
    Mallory0418 Posts: 723 Member
    I can't say that I HATE the city, just out of my element and don't really relate to the people around here. I grew up in a dinky farm town with 46 people in my graduating class. LOVED IT!! My idea of a night out back then was going "into town" 30 miles away to see a movie and eat at the Olive Garden!
  • cbmcphillips
    cbmcphillips Posts: 801 Member
    country girl all the way! live in a small town now, grew up next to the Delaware River in the Poconos
  • castadiva
    castadiva Posts: 2,016 Member
    A bit of both - I love the endless options in London - but I am always so refreshed when I go home to Scotland. I guess having both makes me appreciate the good things in each that much more.
  • cbear017
    cbear017 Posts: 345 Member
    I love the country!!! I live in a big city (10+ million) now and I absolutely loathe it. I need a job that allows me to move back to the place I love.
  • Ant_M76
    Ant_M76 Posts: 534 Member
    City!

    Countryside is nice to visit but I want plenty of things happening on my doorstep (not literally, of course).
  • moodymarble
    moodymarble Posts: 182 Member
    I live in a small city (approx 13,000) and I couldn't imagine living in the country. Although we have farmers fields bordering and extending into city limits (beside the school that my kids attend). So I guess I have the best of both worlds? Lol :happy:
  • Pocket_Pixi
    Pocket_Pixi Posts: 1,167 Member
    Country...

    I have lived in a city for the past 12 years, I actually find I am more bored here than I was town that was 500 people and most of them were old (like 80+). I always get funny looks when I say that but in the town/farm area I grew up in we did pretty much everything - from racing grain trucks to snowboarding behind cars.

    My graduating class had 32 kids, my total school had about 150 kids and it took 2 towns and a military base to make the school that big. lol
  • fatcitizen
    fatcitizen Posts: 103 Member
    grew up in the city....raised my kids in the country.....always wished I have their life....the neighbor kids (1/4 mi away) had a pool, and we always had horses....and they could ride cross country to the lake.....
  • Classalete
    Classalete Posts: 464 Member
    Grew up in the middle of nowhere...Went to college in Philadelphia (Temple U)...Realized how much I prefer the country.
  • azsuzi
    azsuzi Posts: 1,169 Member
    Grew up in a city (but not a big city like NYC) and have lived in the country. I love both and am hard pressed to choose where I would rather live. Right now, I'm in a city where some people still keep cows and horses! Its rather funny to be driving along suburban neighborhood street and realize that there are horses watching you!!
  • Carl01
    Carl01 Posts: 9,307 Member
    I have lived in the sticks my entire life so can`t imagine living even in a village.
    When I in the next year or so (hopefully) I do want to be closer to things then now.
    To go to a movie now is almost an hour away.
  • Articeluvsmemphis
    Articeluvsmemphis Posts: 1,987 Member
    Big City = Memphis (1,000,000) people I think or more, and I love it always have always will. I live in the inner city part and the most enjoyable thing was just the community atmosphere. We played frisbee, baseball, basketball, anything we could find to do as a child. We have a hill on our land and we would get pieces of wood and sled down the hill on the rare Winters it snowed (not iced), very fun.
  • jnite
    jnite Posts: 108 Member
    Country all the way!!!!! But Alberta, Canada does seem a bit different than other parts of North America, in that where I live our town is 8000 people or so and Red Deer which is the closest city is only 45 mins away, and Calgary or Edmonton is only 2 hours away. So I can get to the big city pretty easily if I want, I just never want to........ Red Deer is enough for me. And my town has pretty much everything that you need. Just not some of the stores that I like... But I have never lived in a town or city and I never will.
  • newbeetler
    newbeetler Posts: 197 Member
    Beach!!!!

    Grew up in the english countryside 10 miles away from the beach.

    Now live in the city and hate it.

    I feel claustraphobic being in the middle of the country (UK country not countryside) and having to drive 2 hours to the nearest beach when I used to finish work and drive 10 minutes to sit on the beach at midnight listening to the waves watching the moonlight bounce off the water.
  • jessicajane11
    jessicajane11 Posts: 10
    CANADIAN COUNTRY livin'!! I'm from Nova Scotia (which basically explains my preference), but living in Alberta now..more than 800 people is Way too many for me!! & we always went skeet shooting to keep outta trouble :) or just raised some hell in our pick up trucks!! I love walkin' down the street & everyone knowin' yah by yer first name!!
  • annemckee
    annemckee Posts: 170 Member
    Normally I'd say country but with continuing storm force winds, no ferries or planes (therefore no escape route, no food in the shops, no mail etc) beam me to a city now. Any city.
  • cbear017
    cbear017 Posts: 345 Member
    Country all the way!!!!! But Alberta, Canada does seem a bit different than other parts of North America, in that where I live our town is 8000 people or so and Red Deer which is the closest city is only 45 mins away, and Calgary or Edmonton is only 2 hours away. So I can get to the big city pretty easily if I want, I just never want to........ Red Deer is enough for me. And my town has pretty much everything that you need. Just not some of the stores that I like... But I have never lived in a town or city and I never will.

    It is different, isn't it? I love Alberta. My sister lives in Waiwright which is a small town two hours east of Edmonton. I loved it out there. They have pretty much everything you could want.
  • 3GKnight
    3GKnight Posts: 203
    Mattress surfing!

    Left a small town of 100,000 in CA to live in a big city of 60,000 in WY.
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