City, village or countryside: where do you want to live?
City, village or countryside: where do you want to live?
So I live in a (relatively) big city now. I'm always fascinated by the (social) super structure that is a city, and also by public transport inside cities. I like how life here never stops. You can find things to do at all hours of the day. I like all the weird and strange things the city has to offer.
It also has it's downsides. It gets busy, polluted, dirty and noisy. There's an airbnb close to my appartment and the guests party til 6 in the morning sometimes, on weekdays. If you complain, people say 'you live in a big city, what do you expect?' like it's the normal thing to do. I miss nature sometimes.
I think I'll eventually move to a village. Preferably at sea. But to be young in a city is a blessing at the moment.
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All options are fine so long as there is reliable public transportation in the city, and it's walkable. If not then I believe the village and rural options are superior on account of not having terrible traffic (in most cases). So really most American cities are pretty terrible places to live. The big American cities have firmly fallen behind contemporary places in Europe and Asia and imo it's not even close. Hard to say the country is livable unless you're labor aristocracy and above and that realization is really the only reason I'm coming around to going back to school.