City or Country?

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

I like to be near a city but could never live in it.

Even my 'suburb' is starting to feel too crowded for my tastes.

[Niels Bohr 72]

OMG! I mis-interpreted this thread.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

OMG! I mis-interpreted this thread.

OMG!

[TimandJoyce 1]

I don't think I could live in a "big" city. I love to visit the...NYC, Frisco, etc., but to live there? Not sure.

I come from what you would call a "town" although it was certainly getting bigger, and more traffic! But it's spread out, and no high rises! I have moved into an area just like the kind I grew up in. We live in a "country" setting, yet we're very close to town when we need anything. I can't get over how it's the same as what I'm used to

[_Simpson_ 250]

City or Country?, Which one would you prefer to live in?

I like both..I like City as well as Country.

In general people who lived in the City are more laid back, open minded, multicultural..easy acces to department stores,Hospitals etc.

in the Country fresh air;and quiet

I totally disagree with that statement. A lot good laid back open minded multicultural people in my neck of the woods. Contrary to what you have been led to believe we are not a bunch of gun toting rednecks.

[bulaklak 0]

name='-Simpson-' date='Aug 25 2009, 02:34 PM' post='3250004']

totally disagree with that statement. A lot good laid back open minded multicultural people in my neck of the woods.

I expected that answer

Contrary to what you have been led to believe we are not a bunch of gun toting rednecks.

Hmmm...I never said that..that is coming from you.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

or. you get another buckshot of rock salt

Just don't come nih ah Disney Land...or we'll pelt you will granola clusters.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

I don't know!!! I live in the Bay Area and I don't know If I want to move deeper to SF. or not.

Edited August 25, 2009 by lancer1655

[John9981 9]

I love city life, We'd like to live IN the city if we can afford it. (me and my wife both are from big cities (Seoul+Bangkok))

[NickD 203]

Wouldn't move into a small town where only three different last names are in the phone book, some inbreeding going on there. Wife is changing her attitude a little bit, especially when it comes to waiting in long lines like in Caracas, two hours in a bank to make a deposit. But she thinks I am funny when around here, more than one person in line. She is a city girl, well so was I, but make that a guy. We can visit the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, or Chicago and even smaller cities less than an hour away. We live in a wooded area on the outskirts of a town with a population of 20,000.

I have compared a round trip to Madison as less driving time than her 15 mile trip to Caracas that has taken us as long as five hours. Here she spends less then ten minutes a day going to and from work. We have looked at other towns to live in, now her requirements have been reduced to a town large enough to have a Wal-Mart superstore. It was taken us three hours to drive from O-Hare to downtown Chicago only to find no place to park. All the parking here is free. We have high speed internet, some 400 odd TV channels, and indoor plumbing. And lots of trees, and some of the cleanest lakes you can find anywhere with crystal clear rivers, what else do you need.

Her latest requirement is living closer to an international airport, said we can make O'Hare quicker than Caracas that for her is only 30 miles away, last time, took us five hours to make that.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Her latest requirement is living closer to an international airport, said we can make O'Hare quicker than Caracas that for her is only 30 miles away, last time, took us five hours to make that.

Yup, same here. And a real international airport at that, not a joke international airport like Philadelphia.

[_Simpson_ 250]

I don't know!!! I live in the Bay Area and I don't know If I want to move deeper to SF. or not.

I used to live in the bay area also and I hated it, Antioch. I had my truck broke into 3 times in a a apartment that I was paying outrageous rent for, then there was the trip back and forth to work everyday...

Edited August 25, 2009 by -Simpson-

[Rhiannercakes 14]

I've lived in a city with a population of 250 000 and the countryside where the "town" is 1000.

The city was nice. Lots of places to go and it was easier to get to them.

The countryside on the other hand was 20 minutes from any sort of denser packed city.

We also had dial up instead of high speed, which I hated so much.

2 of my 4 neighbours had cows, one grew tobacco and the other just had a house like us

Edited August 25, 2009 by Rhiann

[NickD 203]

One thing for sure, USA sure is turning out to be a plastic country, no matter where you travel, some old chain stores that look exactly alike wherever you go.

A different kind of measurement for a city would be the number of Wal-Marts it has. Chicago area has twenty with five more coming. Milwaukee area, meaning you really don't know you left Milwaukee unless you can spot city line signs has twelve.

Today, you can drive far south of Chicago to way north of Milwaukee and never know you left Chicago unless you watched the signs. A bit too crowded for me. Although the lake front is empty during a weekday. Spend a day on the lake front in Chicago in the summer on a weekday, just my dog and me, unless my dog scared everyone away.

33 million people in the SW USA all depend on the Colorado river as the only source of water including all those farmers. What amazes me is that the entire Wisconsin Lake Superior boarder is barren land, lot's of water up there, only major cities are Ashland and Superior, and can't hardly call those major cities. Can buy a couple hundred acres of rich timber land up there for the same price as a small lot on the outskirts of Milwaukee. But wife said no, no Wal-Marts up there.

[lgg 2]

COUNTRY....