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Which would you prefer to live in, City or Countryside?
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I prefer the city:)
So much more to do .. I can't imagine living in the country.. it must get so boring. Nature is OK.. but it is not interesting seeing the same thing every day.
So much more to do .. I can't imagine living in the country.. it must get so boring. Nature is OK.. but it is not interesting seeing the same thing every day.
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ETA: and what STD (:eek:@ abbreviation) said.
Town centre is a museum & so are most of the attractions , but the tourists provide plenty of laughs, just had the annual invasion by the Young Farmers Convention :eek:
Don't worry, they're in Torquay next year I think!
I think it depends what stage you're in in life, when I lived here before I would've hated to be anywhere but the city centre but now I'm married and we're thinking of having kids there is no way I'd want to live in the centre.
In the city there is something new happening every day.. isn't a little boring if the only event to look forward to is the village carnival once a year?
Maybe I'll think differently when I'm a little older.....
Also whether you have a car or not. I don't drive. In the city that is no problem. Public transport is very good but in countryside I would be trapped.
i grew up rural, we weren`t bored and we could get into town and back ok (we had hourly buses).
i could never live in a city, i`d hate it, i live on an estate in a village now and that`s citified enough for this yokel.
horses for courses and all.
I think it depends on what kind of countryside and what kind of city too, we moved from London a year ago after 4 years and I can honestly say I will never never be moving back - for me it's the worst place to live ever. I've also lived in other cities which are great, eg. Dublin, Milan etc but to me they feel more like towns due to their size.
We don't have kids yet but I still like getting home to the sea air each evening - as I said though we're only 25 mins by train into the city centre where we work each day so....
Cities are like ant farms, well ants that spend all their time shopping, getting drunk, and riding like hell.:D
Currently live by the sea and love it.
Isn't that a bit like saying the countryside is full of slack-jawed yokels, chewing straw between their 4 teeth and carrying a pig under each arm?
Of course living in a city I'm spoilt.. I think it is bad when I have to wait 10 minutes for a bus:o
I like going away and visitng cities for a day, but I love coming home to the countryside
we`re supposed to have 10 minute buses in this village but they are bloody unreliable, we`ve got the train though, which is much more efficient and cheaper, but only every hour except at commuter time.
The countryside is great if you get on with your neighbours and are from that area but if you are a stranger you can be made to feel unwelcome.
I prefer the city because they don't care where you come from and if you hae falling out there is always more people .. you don't need to worry about been frozen out.
If that's all you think there is in the country, no much wonder you prefer a city...
Right now the fields and hedgerows where I live are packed with colour, there are lambs leaping about, the rabbits are out in force, the deer are standing staring at the cars, pheasants are swooping all over the place, thousands of tiny birds are darting in and out of hedges, everything is growing and changing. You can look at the same view every single day and something will have changed, and this change happens every single day, year after year. It's not huge change as in a new road or a new building being put up or a club opening or whatever, but it IS change and if you look for it, you find it.
A preference for city or country living is definitely going to depend on your age, where you grew up and your interests etc, but it's wrong to just dismiss the country as being about the same old fields and the same old sheep, it's so much more than that:)
I think the countryside is for car drivers.. otherwise it is very difficult to travel and find work..
Does your sister in law have a car?
Yes they are descending en masse in Torbay next year after the fiasco over the Winter Gardens bars/under age boozing/raucous revellry. Another £2m of business down the swanny.
Brace yourselves for job lot of people who only ever clap eyes on a kebab shops & bars once a year.
i must say, your view of country life is amusing, we do get out, you know, not all communities are particularly insular and i only have 5 fingers on each hand:D.
(mind you, i was born in birmingham:rolleyes:).
ETA: bumpkin, 4 fingers two thumbs.:rolleyes: