Thread: I hate living in the city.

I came home in 2005 to find that the Tampa of my youth and the Tampa of today are indeed two very different places. I decided to "move to the country" and while the "country" town of New Port Richey is nowhere near as country as it was in my youth, for the most part it's a pretty quiet area in which to live and is close enough to Tampa and Clearwater for commuting to work but far enough away to escape most of the typical BS associated with living in a bigger town. The jury is still out but there may be a move in my future to an even more country environment (the panhandle of Florida, Redneck Riviera, Lower Alabama, etc.) While my wife and I would both very much like to make the move, I think ultimately it will boil down to a question of can I land a comparable job up there. The sad truth is I've gotta work for a living. If this were not the case, I suspect I would just buy a boat, move to Cedar Key and spend the rest of my days fishing, drinking beer, telling war stories at the VFW and writing the great American novel.

It sucks living around other people, usually it's unavoidable if you depend on them to make a living.

Originally Posted by Theseus

I'm pretty happy where I live. I'm in Zanesville, which is a town of about 30,000. We have the best of both worlds here. Far enough from big city life, but we have some of the things that make big city life good. And whatever we don't have here, Columbus is only about 45 minutes away.

Aside from the occasional escaped big cat, I wouldn't mind living in Zanesville. I'm just sick of living in the stinking city.

Originally Posted by 96firephoenix

Aside from the occasional escaped big cat, I wouldn't mind living in Zanesville. I'm just sick of living in the stinking city.

The lions and tigers just make life exciting.

I was born in the city and grew up in the country. I am now living in the "big" city. I would rather live in the country but the jobs and money are why I came here. They both have their advantages and disadvantages. If you stay away from drugs and prostitutes etc. the big city is relatively safe. I know a higher percentage of people in prison for example from the people I know in the country. A murder every thousand years means that it is a higher percentage that it is me that gets it in the township that I grew up in.

What I am trying to say is that the density of population skews the news when you see something happening every day.

I can walk 1/2 block from my house in the city and see more squirrels in the park than on half of my mothers farm but i can't shoot and eat them! and rabbits run all over my yard. :-[

Count your blessings where you are and remember the grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence.

Tim

I just moved my daughter to Indy from Jeffersonville (the southernmost end of I-65 in Indiana). She is loving the city, and I lived there for a while in the late 70's and I liked it as well. However, I like the pace in a small town and I live across the river from Louisville and can get to most things a bigger city has to offer rather quickly. But of all the places I have lived, I miss my 5 acres in Henryville, IN the most. there is just something about a small town.

Wow I live in a city of over 25 million , 1mil sounds ice and peaceful to me

Originally Posted by shayne

Wow I live in a city of over 25 million , 1mil sounds ice and peaceful to me

How many square meters? LOL

Very good question . We do tend to stack em like lab rats .

I love city life. There's always something going on, everything is close and you've got everything you need within 20 minutes of travel time. Out in the country is nice to visit, but if I lived there I'd go stir crazy. Keep your boonies, I'll take my concrete jungle.