Thread: I hate living in the city.

In this day and age, everything you need is as close as your computer mouse away...


Mick

Mick , as far as a mouse away goes does that include women , wine and sin of all flavors ?

I would go so far as to give that a tentative 'Yes' answer mate. Place your order online and just wait for it to be delivered to your door. I've no personal experience as the wife would kill me... Except the wine mate. That's a definate Yes, I get my wine delivered that way. .


Mick

Originally Posted by 96firephoenix

I don't think I'd have an issue living in some of the cities in mainland Europe, such as Salzberg or Vienna

Why???

A big city is a big city RIGHT? People are people. There, is more or less like here, only less free. I am sure they are great places, but there are great places here.

I live in Spokane, the Greater Spokane Area must be around 200k. Fits good, enough work to live and close enough to the country to get lost hiking (fishing, hunting, whatever). LA basin, Portland, Seattle, Honolulu, Guatemala City, all bigger than I prefer. All have good areas and all have bad. When there I find my freedom is in my state of mind not my location. My folks live in a (very small) town and you still find the good and the bad.

Jeff

Did you just say that people in European cities are "less free"?

@Mick: I get your point about the mouse-click, but there's more to it than that. I guess that's why people live in different places.

I lived in a city of 20,000 for a year. That was enough city life for me.
I am back out in the middle of nowhere, where I belong.

And if you look like your current avatar, that's probably a really good thing...


Mick

Interesting thread.

The Edmonton I live in is not the quaint, close-knit Edmonton that I remember as a kid. The metro area and surrounding burroughs have a population of over a million now, and is really adopting the big city, don't-give-a-shit-about-anyone-else attitude. On the plus side, being in the prairies has the advantage of land, so those million+ people are spread out over a large area, instead of stacked on top of each other like in your usual wordly metropolis. It can be nice being close to ammenities, but the noise and the daily grind does bring you down sometimes.

Ideally it would be nice to live just outside the city so you don't have to drive stupid distances to buy groceries or DVD's, whatever. But the housing/land prices are so ludacris these days it's very prohibitive and sometimes seems like a pipe dream

The only reason I don't like living in rural areas is that I've never had a nice vehicle, so I've always had to worry about it breaking down and causing me to lose my job and mobility. I have an inherent distrust of cars. I feel way more secure living somewhere that has good public transportation.

I love living in the city because I can walk to everything I could possibly need. groceries, restaurants, entertainment, and bars at damn near any time of day or night. I grew up in Las Vegas and have been in Chicago for the past year. I've lived in small college town tennessee and out in the middle of no where Fort Irwin. Dealing with people is far easier than the inconvenience of the country IMHO.