Did you grow up in the city? If so, where are you now?
By tiffanykei
@tiffanykei (44)
United States
January 17, 2008 4:19pm CST
i was born in korea and moved to the states at age 10. even in korea i was surrounded by large buildings and many lights. then came seattle with it's grand buildings. now i'm in the flat land of north carolina and i've been homesick since i came here. do any of you feel this way? for those who have come from a different place then the place you call home now? what is it that you miss the most?
i guess i just feel that everything goes too slow here. yes there isn't traffic like there is in seattle or much less the rain but i'm nearly always grateful when either one of the two (or both) happens.
3 responses
@Fidget (291)
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18 Jan 08
I grew up in a city in southern England. I hated it. Didn't have a garden, wasn't allowed to play out etc I always wanted to move to the countryside. We did when I was 15. It was a total culture shock and I wasn't very happy but that was mainly due to my new school. We moved again and really started to like it, then I went to University in rural Wales and haven't looked back. I don't think I could face living in a city again.
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@tiffanykei (44)
• United States
18 Jan 08
england huh? i'd love to visit someday...
the city in england.. is it very packed? like, very busy? if you couldn't have a garden, it must've been packed. :\
@Fidget (291)
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18 Jan 08
Most of my friends had gardens, I just didn't as I lived above the shop my parents ran in the middle of town. I was very envious of my friend who lived outside the city in the New Forest though! (it's called 'New' as it's only 800yrs old, lol.)
I wouldn't say it was very packed though. Some areas were with their housing tower blocks but others weren't.
Citites in England have generally grown over hundreds of years, usually starting as large towns that gradually expanded and assimilated outlying villages, which can but not always give different areas their own personality.
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@Adoniah (7513)
• United States
17 Jan 08
Where I grew up, there weren't any real cities for miles and miles. There were just little towns here and there. You had to go about 100 miles or more to get to something you would call a real city. I thought it was great. We could ride our bikes down the middle of the streets in the middle of the day and there was no traffic.
I am back in that same area now. It sucks. You take your life in your hands to try to cross a street on foot, much less try to ride a bike. No one here is from here, except me and a couple of people I have met. If I could afford it, I would move somewhere else just so that I wouldn't have to see how my home has changed for the worse!
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@tiffanykei (44)
• United States
17 Jan 08
what you described there leaves me breathless! i just picture myself as a child riding a bike on a dirt road and wow... it's like living inside a movie. :) i think a place like that would be a great place for a child to grow up in..
@Jimmy3371 (142)
• United States
18 Jan 08
I was raised in the sub. and I love it but I love it more to be living in the city like over a store or something like that I would love to live in a apt. over a bar or something like the show friends I just love to be by people.
@tiffanykei (44)
• United States
18 Jan 08
I actually once lived in an apartment complex where they had businesses just downstairs on the first floor. i have to admit, it was great! to make things even better, i also worked at a salon right downstairs so it saved great amount of money on gas. ;) plus, because i worked in the same building, i had a discount on rent. it was great for the fact that the apartment complex was more of a grand suite than anything else. oh, i do miss that place.
