Thanks! I was looking more or less for a remote cabin in a forest somewhere, but a mountaintop works just as well.

I love it.
I never understand people who want to live in cities.

you don't have to understand them. Cities are full of cultural differences and various other things that appeal to them.

Oh I like cities when I get there, I just wouldn't want to live there.
I don't see the appeal in living in the noise for an awful lot of money.
I like my peace and quiet :)

The noise isn't too bad and you get used to it after awhile but I do agree with the stupid friggin expensive housing. I hate that part of it.

Well you know, I live on the edge of a village in a street with three houses. After those three houses the road becomes a trail into the woods:

http://stijnkraft.ebenau.net/daily/art/nature/5.jpg

Meadow in front of our house, meadow behind our house, neighbours on one side 30 yards away, on the other side 60 yards away. Birds chirping, fresh air all the time. There's a shop within a 3 minute drive, a train station within 2 minutes, I'm somewhere in the middle between Maastricht and Eindhoven, so there's some big cities nearby. Sittard is a nice city too, that's just a 10 minute drive away. It's pretty much perfect here.

I'll be moving soon though. To an even smaller village (880 people live there), no shops, no train station and I somehow friggin' love it. Unfortunately the house I will be living in then is semi-detached, but it's my first house and it's so much better than what most people have as their first houses. Having said that, it's so much better than what most people have, period. I love the cheap countryside :)

Well see you have your own transportation and you also aren't afraid of axe murderers coming out of the woods to KILL YOU in your sleep. That's the main reason why I can't live around a woody area like that.

Aren't so many axe murderers in Europe I'd say. s_K, that looks like a fantastic place to live, if you have a car :) My dad lives down in the sticks, in a small cottage, and I love going down there, but it is so disconnected from all my friends and the city that I wouldn't be able to live there!

As for living in cities, I think it depends on the city. I'd hate to live in a massive City like London, but somewhere like Sheffield, which it essentially like an emalgamation of little towns, which disappears directly into mountains on the west side is somewhere I wouldn't mind living, cause you can have a house right on the edge of the wilderness, and still be a 20 minute drive from the city centre.

That is like the city I live in at the moment but the drive is more like 5-10 mins to get to the city area of it. I live in the city area though but it's cool though because it's close to the river. I'm two blocks away from the river. My mother's place she could see the river from her living room. It was pretty awesome. She had a lazyboy set up in just the right position so you could just sit in it and zone out looking at the river.

Figures :).
I myself would be more scared walking in a city late at night, somehow.
Strange, eh?
As far as transport goes; We have buses here :).
It's not THAT countrysideish :D