Do you prefer city,suburb or country living?

[Wcross]

Just curious as to peoples ideal place to live. I understand some of us have to be where they don't want to be due to employment. If you had your choice of the three, which would you choose?

I have tried all three and prefer country living.

[Kamika]

1. Suburb

I go nuts in the country.. the suburb is great.. close to the city, but you don't actually get all the crime of the city.

[ringmastery]

2. country is nice

I would love to retire to the country one day. The problem is jobs. There are just not that many opportunities in rural areas.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

3. Country

I live out in the middle of nowhere and I feel peaceful here.

[VOX]

4. A balance of the two: smaller town, near some open country...

A town that's scaled down, but still offers good health care facilities, a university, and a cultural life would be ideal, and they do exist.

Put this town near some open country, and you've got the best of both worlds.

[ringmastery]

8. Which towns?

List names people. ;)

[Cheswick2.0]

5. suburb surrounded by country or country

My perfect life would be lived in the country on a private lake but close enough to a city to have access to the arts organizations.

[Nikia]

6. Large town, wooded lot

By large town (small city), I mean something that has several different shopping and restaurant options, community organizations, and most things that one would want or need within the town but not be what one would consider as metropolitain. The house would be in a non uniform neighborhood near the middle of town but the yard would seem natural and isolated. I know of a couple places like this. It is really cool.

[jpgray]

7. Country by far

Just give me an hour drive to the city, and I'll by happy. But then I come from a line of both farmers and salesmen, so I'm a little schizoid in this, I think.

[youngred]

9. City

at least for now :-)

[corarose]

10. City Honey!

I would prefer to die then to live in the Hills.

My Bay Window overlooks Rush Street and I can see the John Hancock from here and I feel like I am in heaven just looking at the view at night when the lights are on.

[camero]

11. Country

More space, less people. The only thing I don't like about it is everyone knows your business.

[ikojo]

12. City livin is the life for me!!!

There is the theatre and other things to do in the city.

Also, I think cities tend to be more accepting of religious minorities. One does not see many synagogues outside of major metropolitan areas (well maybe in New York state but not here in the midwest).

[SheilaT]

13. I really am a city girl

but I'd like to have a cabin somewhere out in the country that I could spend a few days at whenever I felt stressed out.

Wouldn't you know, I actually live in the suburbs.

[KG]

14. city - if that city is St Pete!

:)

[kanrok]

24. I gotta go to St. Pete on business in a couple of weeks

Need some restaurant recommendations.

[Melsky]

15. Rural or city

I hate suburbs though. Right now I am living in the desert about 10 miles away from 29 Palms, California. It's really beautiful and quiet out here, but kind of lonely. I might be selling the house and moving in a few months though. My husband starts his new job in Toronto next week.

[Blade]

16. The country is nice...

but I like to have people around. So I'd have to say the 'burbs. There's just enough people, not too many, and there's still some privacy.

[Bronco69]

17. City all the way.

I was raised in the country and grew up in the burbs. I need people around. :-)

[UrbScotty]

18. I actually like the Burbs.

Of course, Kentwood, MI, isn't thast bad, despite the area freeper dominance.

[Nikia]

19. I'm wondering how people define city/rural

I was shocked when my second grade teacher told us in social studies that we lived in a rural area. I had always thought that I lived in a city at that point in my life. We had everything that we needed in our large town business and sommunity service wise. It was impossible for one to know everyone and it would take a long time to walk the diameter of town. No one raised livestock or grew crops in city limits either. Outside of town was rural. My college town, which is bigger is considered metrolpolitain but some students from "real cities" like Chicago say that it is rural.

[Syn_Dem]

20. Suburb

n/t

[HEyHEY]

21. AHHH I can't choose!

[Lefta Dissenter]

22. Country for me!!!

but close to town!

We are on 50 acres about 5 miles from Madison, which is a GREAT city. My neighbors are close enough to call on if I need help, but I can walk back up into our field and woods and be away from everything. I just wish we had another 250 acres or so... (what, me greedy???)

[populistmom]

23. I'm torn, but I think country

Close to a big city. I grew up in a city, Omaha, but not a huge city (about a 1/2 million when I was there) and I liked it, but I also spent a lot of time on my grandpa's farm in a very rural environment 2 hours away and loved that too.
I've lived in Suburbia ever since I've lived in Connecticut and frankly, it's not so much me, yet here I am.

[Interrobang]

25. City living for me!

The bigger the better, thanks. First of all, I don't drive, so public transit is a *must*. Bonus points for subways, and a full extra grade for streetcars (ah, Toronto!). Secondly, I'm a technical writer, so there has to be lots of technical or IT firms around if I am to have a job. Thirdly, I've lived in the county, and the, uh, standard of competence out there is so low, I'm frustrated all the time. I wind up walking around thinking to myself, "Did these people just naturally start out this stupid, or did they have to take lessons?" and probably my biggest character flaw is that I don't suffer idiots gladly... ;-)

[Lefta Dissenter]

29. nothing like a little stereotyping

to make the world go 'round... :(

[maxanne]

26. small town hick here

living in northern NH. Happy to be here. It's an hour and a half to Portland,ME - and 3 hours to Boston. I don't have to lock my car a lot of the time, or my house. The town clerk called me 2 weeks ago to let me know that the registration on my car was about to expire. I would have forgotten. We all know each other's business - but when anyone needs help - it is there.

[Catshrink]

27. City -- big city.

Chicago preferred. Seattle is okay.

[Cleita]

28. If I could, I would live in the wildest forest I could find.

Actually, I know where that is and it's on the Canadian border. The only roads in there are dirt roads. There's an old fire watching tower there and that's where I would live if I could.