? City Girl/Country Boy ?
 

Something fzzy said in a thread got me wondering... do you consider yourself to be from a rural, more country community or are you an urban dweller?

Have you lived in both? Do you have a preference of one over the other?

i have lived in both kinds of areas, country and city...and while i like to be around people, and be able to walk down the sidewalks right down my street to buy anything I need, I would rather be in a less crowded environment (coming from a northeastern jersey girl)..but then again, i'm not into the farms and manure smell of the last area I used to live in...so I would just really strive for a happy medium......something not too out in the boonies, and something not crazily populated and miserable like here next to nyc

Lilith,

City Boy here.

Done both - several times - on several continents.

The amount, availability, and quality of culture and the human interaction found in the city makes it, in my opinion, the hands down winner.

country girl here, just nothing else around to prove otherwise not alot to do around here.

I'm a country girl through and through. The only draw back to being so far out in the country and up in the mountains is....

*hold your ears PF*

You have to drive miles (literally) just to buy a pair of panties! There is not one single place within 10-15 miles of me...to purchase a pair of underwear! The running joke around here goes something like this...

We keep getting more and more housing, and are getting more and more drug stores and grocery stores...not to mention schools (tax me out the wazzoo, why doncha)...but, we'll all be going commando if they don't put in a fuckin Super WalMart!

The plan was to build a Super WalMart very close to me, but the elders around this place HATE change and don't want big stores to build on their land (undeveloped and not being farmed in years...kinda land...some call it green space, but it can't get any more green around here if we tried!)...and they keep going to the public meetings and shooting down the locations for new growth! It doesn't matter what EVERYONE else wants...they won't sell their land to the big chains...but they'll sell off bits and pieces to the small developers so they can build new housing. Does that make a damn bit of sense to anyone? For crying out loud, we will NEED at least one store around here or, soon, everyone will be pantiless!

Oh shit! *looks down and sees that the soap box has slipped under my feet again*

Sorry bout that....lol!

Anyway...I watch the news in the morning and see the commute into the city (Philadelphia) and watch the traffic jams and accidents, and think to myself, "It wouldn't matter how much they paid me to work in the city, I couldn't take the mad rush"!

Country Boy, 17,000 people in the town. Our biggest event in town is a Rodeo. It lasts an entire week and draws in 40,000 people. One of the largest Rodeos in the country.

I am a left/right person, not a turn south at the 'ol tree stump that use-ta be that big oak in front of Smitty's barn that burnt down in ..... say, I think 76!.. Boy & tarnation! That thar was a fire! Nearly melted the... oh, I am gettin' off topic.... yeah, poor Matty, lost those prize chickens... :D...

I was born near a large city and lived in a mid-sized city growing up. There are advantages to living in the city but now I wouldn't trade it for the world. We live out in the country, on an acreage - I "git" to play in the dirt :D - about 5 miles from the nearest town of 2,500 population.

We do have to drive about an hour to the nearest "city" to shop and buy groceries (small town charges way to much and it is cheaper for us to pay for the fuel to drive and save money to shop in the city). But I would take living in the country over living in the city any day!!!

I've spent most of my life in the "outer suburbs"... close enough to be able to access whatever I need, but far enough out to avoid all the urban bullshit. It works well for me. I lived in a large city for awhile and hated it.... I'm looking forward to (hopefully) being in a more rural area in the future.

City kid with a country boy mentality....which is why I moved from the city and live in horse country now.

rabbit

HMMMM ... man I finally made it, said something that inspired a thread ..... LOL!!! Funny, grew up in VERY small town (as I said before) - less than 1200 people grand total and we were the big town in every direction for over 100 miles .... lived in both big city and "small town" ... prefer something inbetween ... the place I live now ... and I LOVE it here ... is about 125,000 people, but is a old fashioned beachy resort type community ... so not a lot of commercial business here .... Still a very friendly atmosphere, but less than 20 minute drive to places for concerts, amusements, museums, etc. --- think I have the best of both worlds now.

Grew up on a farm in Lancaster PA, tossing hay bales and milking cows. Moved off the farm to Raleigh, then to Chicago, San Francisco, then Brussels, Paris, and Swindon, England.

Then lived on a boat for ten years in Key Largo.

Never missed the farm -- too much work. And yeah, Lixie, I was one of the people getting on the train to Philadelphia.

Now I'm in the frozen northest -- there are two seasons here: winter, and the Fourth of July.

I agree with jseal -- I miss the big cities, the cultural diversity, the fantastic restaurants, good mass transit (Chicago, San Francisco, and Europe), and a plethora of diverse activities.

I miss living on the boat. Didn't have to mow the grass and had a great water view.

But then, when the warmer weather comes here, packing a canoe and going to this desolate place I know, sleeping under the stars, smelling the woodsy dampness, listening to the whipoorwills and the halleujah chorus of night sounds, and watching a foraging moose wander across my field of view, I can only think back to my days waiting in traffic at the Bay Bridge toll plaza and somehow, my little Pond in the wilderness has a way of equalizing all of the other things that have gone by.

I like the in between viewpoint -- I'm only an hour from Boston, so when I want big city, it's there. When I want my quiet Pond, it's only 20 minutes away.

I'm definitely certified country boy. I've never really lived in the city but having stayed with family in the cities I'm always glad to make it back to the peace and quiet.

I'm w/Fzzy; I have spent my best years living in woods that were part of cities with populations of about 125,000. I felt I had the best of both worlds--plenty of quiet and wilderness and wildlife but with most any store or park or anything "cultural" being 5 to 20 minutes away and having somewhat of a cultural/ethnic diversity.

I'm as country as grits and turnip greens and damn proud of it!

I live about 15 miles from what most would consider a small town (about 25-30 k) and there is no way I could live in a place that big.