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Originally Posted by savannah
Cities make me feel,.......depressed, claustrophobic, and antsy,.....
i grew up in a town of 3,500,.....but lived way out on a dirt road,.....i still live way out on a dirt road, and can imagine it any other way,....
i always felt lucky growing up because we kept a town house in downtown dallas, so it was nice having somewhere to stay when we'd go shoping or something,....but i cant live there full time,.....after about two days in the city and i'm ready to get the hell outa there,.....
i love big green yards,.....and huge friendly oak trees,....i like being able to hop the fence and go fishing,.....also, my house us surrounded by like, a wall of trees,.....i can strip down and swim in my pool after mowing the pasture and not have to worry about anyone seein me,.....
if i have to run out to the car in the morning to get something, i can do so in my underware,.....its very quiet, no traffic noise,......i can lay in the grass and see stars not just street lights,.....when i turn all the lights off at my house its COMPLETELY DARK,.......i like that my horses will talk to me when i walk out by back door,.......i've got a herd of 8 deer that live in my yard,....and one just had twins,........i like all the bunnies and racoons that live here with me,.....it makes me happy to drive home and see nothing up lush rolling hay fields,......i like the smell of cows,........i dunno,......the city sure is nice to visit,......but a girl like me cant live there,....nope,...no way,....not ever
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Ok first of all, that sounds f
ucking amazing....it might get lonely after a while, but it'd be well nice to spend a few summer weeks there...
You have a "town house" and what appears to be a ranch of sorts? Did your family drill oil or somes
hit?
Does Europe actually have suburbs in the sense of this thread (and the opening post's picture)? I can't say I know much about them aside from what I've seen on the telly...:|
I grew up in a village of less than 2000 on an island totaling less than 8000. It's great to grow up in a place like that but less fun to spend your entire life in it. The winters here are spooky, it's almost like living in the far north, when the wind comes down from the mountain, there's absolutely no one outside past 4pm. There are little to no job opportunities, if you're g
ay you'll never get laid, if you're straight much the same...people are backward, unfriendly and uneducated, knowing how to use a computer puts you in the "weird hacker crowd" etc...but I wouldn't really want to be anywhere else in the summer, and certainly not on the hot asphalt of the city...sadly, you have to chose the lesser evil...the city offers so much more, cinema, restaurants, fast food, clubs, schools, hospitals, dentists etc...you don't want to be on a desolate island if you're having a heart attack and the nearest hospital is hours away.....:|
I think I've found a good enough compromise, I study and live most of the year in a city of a little less that 200 thousand. Not much crime, not too many people, still retains the somewhat laid back Mediterraneans atmosphere and has almost everything I need.
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