Do you like living in city or in country? and why?
By mari123
@mari123 (1861)
China
December 15, 2007 1:55am CST
I was born in the country, grew up in the country, just is a "son of farmers". And in my childhood, many things in the country interested me, and I was very happy. Though the life was colorful and full of fun, I was curious about the city life. Because in the parents eyes, city is like heaven. They have never lived in the city and pin their hope on me to make their dreams come true.
Fortunately, I passed the Entrance Exam to Collage and came to a university in this big city. At the beginning, the life was fresh to me, and then famimular to me gradually. I have graduated from the university, the city to me isn't a novelty yet. But crowd, noisy and pollution impress on my memory. I changed my mind to believe living in the country feels better. Now on the weekend I will go to the country to relax myself, just as a trip.
But living in the country is not a easy thing and not convient, my job is in the city. And there is no supermarket, no entertainment, no big hospital, even no clean water in the countryside.What's your opinion? Do you like living in city or in country? Can you tell me the how do you think about it?
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10 responses
@jamaicanwizard70 (148)
• Pakistan
16 Dec 07
well mari i always love to live in at a country side but my bad luck is that i am living in a city,thats coz got a gob here,gf and so relatives if i decide to leave da city for da country side i have to make up many decisions and go thru many things
@kimberlylynn (978)
• United States
16 Dec 07
I like to live in the city for every day life and go to the country to relax! If I would have been raised in the country, I might think differently.
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
15 Dec 07
I was born in a place that had both beauty of much countryside and yet it grew over the years I grew up there. I am not sure if a person would describe it as a large village or a small town. When I was a child and a teenager I noticed that builders knocked down a large house and then build several smaller houses to make a whole new road. There was a pretty hillside that I remember playing on when I was a child then when I was a teenager many houses were built all over it. I thought that the area was becoming far too built up. So when I was 19 I bought my own home a tiny terraced cottage in a village with lovely country side all around it. After that I left it to study at a large seaside town and to go off traveling overseas. Time came to sell it two years ago so I moved to the edge of a seaside town. I bought the house I live in because it has a view of fields at the back of it. It has a path that is wonderful for walking my dogs. It is quiet and so very peaceful living here. Cities are such busy places, I prefer the open space of the countryside or the beauty of the coast for my home I think.
@FarmAngel (7)
• United States
15 Dec 07
Hi Mari, Im new to mylot and thought your discussion was quite interesting. You see I am a City girl gone country. I lived in Ann Arbor, Michigan for 21 years, went to the football games, rode my bike whenever I wanted, walked to school, and enjoyed the grocery store being right down the street. Shoot the Dairy Queen was only a mile away. Anyway for the last 32 years I have lived in the Country and I have to tell you the benefits way, way, way, out way the City Life and Its convenience. Yes I will admit when I was playing taxi to my three daughters as they went through school I wished that sometimes we lived closer to things but....The Life we have here in the Country...well there is no comparing. I am so glad my girls grew up here. After they left for college at MSU, yes we are a house divided, they wanted to come home after 2 week. I made more trips up there and back on their long weekends than I can tell you. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
They country is where you really learn about life and what it's really all about. So that is what I think about it.
Farmangel :)
@thrwbckjay67 (2870)
• United States
15 Dec 07
I have always enjoyed living in the city. I am just more in tune with the city life, always having something to do and living in the "fast-paced" world. I moved to a small town (relatively small anyways, about 90,000 people) in my senior year of high school and too often found myself running into the same people daily and not meeting new people. There were also a lot of times when I could not find anything to do. The city and suburb areas at least give you some options in that way.
@positiveminded1977 (7072)
• India
15 Dec 07
I like the country. I don't like cities inspite of their many advantages. I do not like the pollution, the higher cost of living, the ugliness, the stench, and the materialistic attitude of people. My greatest desire to live in a quiet place with a few animals and write.
@megumiart (3771)
• United States
15 Dec 07
I definately like the city better. I grewup in a urban area; i love the bstling crownds of people and places to go & shop & meet people.
@betsyraeduke (2670)
• United States
15 Dec 07
Between the city and the country, I do not prefer either. I prefer small towns with a population of 2000 or less. In a small town you have some of the best conveniences of the city, such as a grocery store, convenient store, restaurant or other nice conveniences near by, but you also have some of the best advantages of the country. Such as a big yard, quiet and peacefulness, not a lot of pollution, etc. To me, a small town is the best of both worlds, or at least as close to it as you can get.
