Thread: I hate living in the city.

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.

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.

Come and live in South Australia, in the hills. I hear that Australia has one of the highest standards of living in the world. I'm not sure that's a good thing (maybe we're a little greedy), but things are pretty cool here. I guess I should mention that South Australia is like the murder state of Australia, but other than that it's OK. Nice wine, nice beaches, National Parks with NO ONE in them, here you can go to the beach and not see ANYONE, nice weather...

The town I live in has a population of 200...I can walk to the pub (hotel) and stumble home, we've got a General Store and a 'Rural Supplies' store and that's all. 3/4 of an hour to town (Adelaide) which is really just a big country town... The 'burbs are a bit feral these days, but I stay away from them...

Oh, BTW 96firepheonix, I found your post a little sad, I do hope you find some peace...

Just because I think it is so does not make it so. It is merely one mans opinion. There are things I admire about many other areas of this world and of Europe and Germany in particular. I truly admire the training system for machinists and tool makers for one. (or my understanding of it)

Jeff

carlmaloschneider,

What you describe in your post would be idyllic for me. SWMBO wants more stuff nearby.

The best place I ever lived was a little town called Foothill Ranch, CA (now incorporated within the City of Lake Forest, which happened after we left).

Even though it was in the middle of south Orange County, it was in a little corner of civilization where there was no through traffic so the only people there either lived or had business there. I lived closer to work than it took to drive around the building. Was going to school to finish out my degree less than a mile from home.

There was a cool food court next to the university (which is no longer there), plenty of grocery stores, a park (where a few people were attacked and even killed by mountain lions), and it butt right up next to the wilderness that separated Orange County from Riverside County.

Plus there was an IN-N-OUT and you could see the beach in the distance from the drive-thru.

It's probably changed now, but SWMBO loved it there, and so did I.

Incidentally, for those of you who think my username may look a little awkward, that's where the FHR portion comes from.

-Mark