City, Country or the Suburbs
 

Not necessarily where you live now but where you feel most at home or aspire to live. Up till recently i was solidly in the city camp and I don't know if this is because I'm now utterly sick and tired of London but I've recently been appreciating the space and quiet of the countryside more and more. My favourite places to visit are still definitely cities but I'm not sure that I feel particularly comfortable living in them anymore. So are you a city, suburb or country person?

I voted suburbs, although Oklahoma City might be able to qualify for all three choices.

as a general rule for me, the cities have too many people and the country has too few.

country ( i hate crowds )

fuck! where is the remaining .01% of the votes?

city?
suburbs?
country?

Although I appreciate the country a lot more now, there's still something about cities (or at least certain cities) that I find attractive. I was brought up in suburbs, so have lesser love for those.

ooohh! the ex-weird monkey is here...i agree let the blood run.

^^^ I took that part out.

I'm a lover, not a fighter.

lover with whip?

City, although I have never lived in a big city. I just appreciate the fact that I don't have to take the bus to get anywhere.

Yeah, i don't think I could really deal with the suburbs. In their own different ways both the country and the city offer a kind of anonymity that i don't think you get so much in the suburbs.

I dunno, London is a very extreme city and maybe my rejection of it has tainted my view of other potentially more (for me at least) liveable ones.

I prefer hanging out in the cities, because I'm not a country boy and it offers me little entertainment. Suburbs? They are suburbs, and they are all the same. Not horrible, but nothing fantastic; they are meant for purely practical living, and they serve their purpose.

All this aside though, as far as living conditions, I've lately migrated from the city mindset to the country. Around Lexington, there isn't much for the suburb aspect of it, so you can live in the country and drive to the city in 5 minutes. Country living just seems nice because you don't have to worry about bothering people or making too much noise or anything.

I like either extreme. None of that in between stuff.

I live in teh city but not teh inner city. I'm comfortable where I am now and I wouldn't mind living in teh inner city really. Chicago is a beautiful city. I love it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYye59dstRY


ummm, I like the city and I like the country. Ideally I wish suburbs didn't exist, so I could be closer to the city while living in the country.

I think in the country on the outskirts of a reasonably large city is right for me.

I think the thing for me is that I've known all of them. There's a quite complicated continuum from City-suburb-country for me. To the rural hamlet, I was raised in the suburbs; to the city-dweller (particularly London), I'm the backwater yokel.

There's diversity in suburbs, you see - there's a big difference between city outskirts and commuter belts. Outside Bristol, for instance, you have somewhere like Portishead, which I view as Avonmouth commuters and local industrial houses (largely 20th-century) while somewhere like Long Ashton is ex-country rarified commuter living. Further down the road - in fact, all the villages flanking the A38 - you get variable degrees of disconnection. Winscombe is suburban council house terror, Sandford is cider-drenched industrial commuters, Wrington the 'rural' idyll for people without farms, Churchill is authentic (but small) commuter suburbia, Banwell is a lapsed village community... in fact, I'm struggling to think of local areas that are authentically 'country' - the little hamlets outside Yeovil that aren't filled with Etonite hunt supporters or somewhere like Hewish/ Wick St Lawrence maybe?

Anyway. Long story short, this thread is further proof to me that Londoners very rarely have any meaningful sense of perspective on the world, with due deference to my esteemed colleague Herr Rail.

Sorry, let me amend that - The perspective of a Londoner is necessarily distorted to the point of being incommensurable with that of your average Brit, with the possible exception of Brummies and Mancs.

Suburbs.
There I can reach the city and the country quite fast.

It's the right of every Londoner to make broadsweeping statements about anything they want and for those comments to be taken as gospel. It's in the magna carta, I think.

Could be worse, you could be doing the same thing in a Mancunian accent.