City life vs. Small Community life

Which do you prefer

  • City Life

    Votes: 21 25.9%

  • Small Community Life

    Votes: 60 74.1%
  • Total voters
    81
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I grew up in the country...where you can walk out back and do this:



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...without anyone calling the cops...or hearing.

Someplace with good soil, good stone, good trees and good scenery. The land in the photo has a great view of Humpback Rock in Virginia...hope to inherit it someday.
 
Grew up in a town of 784 people north of Pittsburgh. Always had a passion for the City and have lived in Cities ever since. Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Phoenix, and now Albuquerque. However Albuquerque is like the country/city. If you can drive down a road to 4th street and pass several ranches with horses along the way you have quite the combo and less than 30 minutes away I can be sitting by a stream, enjoying the mountains, and smoking a fine cigar. So I like the convenience of the City but spend time out in the country from time to time.
 
You must be really far out there HokieAirman, if they can't even hear you.

We could always tell what time of year it was from all the pre-dawn gunshots within 5 miles of us. There's a country golf course 4 miles from my house, and after finishing a round I came home and asked him how his shooting time was. He didn't tell me he shot. I heard it during my round. Maybe sound just travels out there.

Either way, of course, no cops would ever be called, because the nearest law enforcement is 30 minutes away, at least, and nobody hesitates at the sound of a gunshot.
 
LawrenceU said:
In the country on a farm outside of a small town raising my own vegetables in a truck patch and selling the extra. I'd have a small herd of Jersies, some ranging hogs, laying hens, and a fryer/broiler house, and always have a couple of steers going. I'd raise my own hay, corn, and other necessary grains. I'd also prefer to do most of the vegetable work with my mules. In my shop I'd build furniture when I had time for sale. I'd build it like I prefer: no power tools, fine woods, fine joinery, and hand finished.

I gotta get out of this city.
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Lemme know when you do, we can buy land adjoining yours. I need someone to teach me woodworking.
 
smhbbag said:
You must be really far out there HokieAirman, if they can't even hear you.

We could always tell what time of year it was from all the pre-dawn gunshots within 5 miles of us. There's a country golf course 4 miles from my house, and after finishing a round I came home and asked him how his shooting time was. He didn't tell me he shot. I heard it during my round. Maybe sound just travels out there.

Either way, of course, no cops would ever be called, because the nearest law enforcement is 30 minutes away, at least, and nobody hesitates at the sound of a gunshot.
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Right. I grew up on a ranch of 1300 acres, and the nearest neighbor had a ranch twice that size. His house was probably 5 miles away.

But we could hear each other shooting and know what was being fired. Not only that, I could tell when he hit the gopher he was aiming at from the sound after the shot.

Of course, that was prairie and rolling hills, not forest, so there may be a difference.
 
smhbbag said:
You must be really far out there HokieAirman, if they can't even hear you.
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We shot those guns in a hollow, so it directed the sound straight out and up...away from our neighbors. That said, there's about 200 acres out there, so they're not very close. The ones that care don't hear a thing...we asked 'em. They're related so they wouldn't lie.

So, maybe I exaggerated a liiiiittle bit...
 
Herald said:
I like small town life, but having experienced the lack of good pizza, Chinese food, and a visit to Wal*Mart counting as a big deal; I prefer city (or suburban) life. I was raised ten miles west of Manhattan. Within fifty miles of New York City you don't have to go far to get whatever it is you need.
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Good point. We don't have any good take out here at all : (
 
Zenas said:
LawrenceU said:
In the country on a farm outside of a small town raising my own vegetables in a truck patch and selling the extra. I'd have a small herd of Jersies, some ranging hogs, laying hens, and a fryer/broiler house, and always have a couple of steers going. I'd raise my own hay, corn, and other necessary grains. I'd also prefer to do most of the vegetable work with my mules. In my shop I'd build furniture when I had time for sale. I'd build it like I prefer: no power tools, fine woods, fine joinery, and hand finished.

I gotta get out of this city.
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Lemme know when you do, we can buy land adjoining yours. I need someone to teach me woodworking.
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Will do.

I find it curious that most people who say they prefer to live near the city seem to mention food and conveniences in shopping. And, most of the food is of a variety that our grandparents would probably not have had the ability to buy. And, if they did it would have been a rarity to partake in it. I guess I'm just content to eat my beans, greens, cornbread, ham, tomatoes, and other regular old stuff.
 
Well this has been an interesting poll. I thought that small community life would win out, and I see I was right. :)

Some reasons for choosing city life over against rural life :

- More options for church membership in a city
- More opportunities for evangelizing/other forms of ministry.
- More potential to meet and befriend people of different demographics
 
You forgot country life.

But I think I'd like city life. The neighbors are busier and don't have as much time to be nosy. :)
 
Skyler said:
You forgot country life.

But I think I'd like city life. The neighbors are busier and don't have as much time to be nosy. :)
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Hah! You have never been in an inner city Italian/Jewish/Greek/ (just name it) neighbourhood. I've never had my life so snooped as when I lived in a city. Folks in the country are usually too busy doing the work it takes to get life handled to care about being snoopy on their neighbours. One of the nosiest places I've ever lived was in the suburbs. Their the ease of living allowed people to get in everybody else's business. I'm sure it is different in various areas, but these have been my observations.
 
LawrenceU said:
Skyler said:
You forgot country life.

But I think I'd like city life. The neighbors are busier and don't have as much time to be nosy. :)
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Hah! You have never been in an inner city Italian/Jewish/Greek/ (just name it) neighbourhood. I've never had my life so snooped as when I lived in a city. Folks in the country are usually too busy doing the work it takes to get life handled to care about being snoopy on their neighbours. One of the nosiest places I've ever lived was in the suburbs. Their the ease of living allowed people to get in everybody else's business. I'm sure it is different in various areas, but these have been my observations.
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Don't start on the Italians. It's a road you don't want to go down unless all your affairs are in order.
 
City life for me. I live in the suburbs of a smaller city now (Sacramento) but moved from the San Fernando Valley (SoCal). I miss it in many ways but am content with where I am now.
 
LawrenceU said:
One of the nosiest places I've ever lived was in the suburbs. Their the ease of living allowed people to get in everybody else's business. I'm sure it is different in various areas, but these have been my observations.
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Hence the choice of city over small town. :)
 
Herald said:
LawrenceU said:
Skyler said:
You forgot country life.

But I think I'd like city life. The neighbors are busier and don't have as much time to be nosy. :)
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Hah! You have never been in an inner city Italian/Jewish/Greek/ (just name it) neighbourhood. I've never had my life so snooped as when I lived in a city. Folks in the country are usually too busy doing the work it takes to get life handled to care about being snoopy on their neighbours. One of the nosiest places I've ever lived was in the suburbs. Their the ease of living allowed people to get in everybody else's business. I'm sure it is different in various areas, but these have been my observations.
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Don't start on the Italians. It's a road you don't want to go down unless all your affairs are in order.
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No harm intended. :) Just an observation.
 
LawrenceU said:
Herald said:
LawrenceU said:
Hah! You have never been in an inner city Italian/Jewish/Greek/ (just name it) neighbourhood. I've never had my life so snooped as when I lived in a city. Folks in the country are usually too busy doing the work it takes to get life handled to care about being snoopy on their neighbours. One of the nosiest places I've ever lived was in the suburbs. Their the ease of living allowed people to get in everybody else's business. I'm sure it is different in various areas, but these have been my observations.
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Don't start on the Italians. It's a road you don't want to go down unless all your affairs are in order.
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No harm intended. :) Just an observation.
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Hey, it's your life. I'd hate to see Vinny, Joey, and Carlo show up in your town with all that expensive gold jewelry looking for you. Forgedabodit. :lol:
 
I appreciate grass and trees and mountains, but I enjoy waking up to this view every day from my bedroom window...

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Mason, more power to you, brother. Unless I knew that God had called me to such a place I would go insane. I get the feeling of being crowded just looking at the picture. I'll never forget the time I was in NYC as a youngster. My father had gone to school there to take a few specialised courses for one of his Master degrees. We lived in Babylon during that time. Going into the city was so strange. The sky was limited to that little slot up way up there. I was young, but I had spent all my life in the country.
 
I like to think I had the best of all possible worlds living in North Jersey. If I wanted to see a Met game I could take the PATH train to Manhattan and the #7 train to Shea. If I wanted the ocean it was only an hour drive away. The mountains and countryside? Thirty minutes to an hour either north, south, or west. There are small towns in Jersey and New York state that have less than three hundred residents. I've also been in the middle of Nebraska, two hours from the nearest big town of one thousand.

"Black asphalt is the place for me,
City living is the life for me.
Skyscrappers spreading tall and wide,
Keep the country just give me the New York side."
 
LawrenceU said:
Mason, more power to you, brother. Unless I knew that God had called me to such a place I would go insane. I get the feeling of being crowded just looking at the picture. I'll never forget the time I was in NYC as a youngster. My father had gone to school there to take a few specialised courses for one of his Master degrees. We lived in Babylon during that time. Going into the city was so strange. The sky was limited to that little slot up way up there. I was young, but I had spent all my life in the country.
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I can imagine how overwhelming that must have been!

Another thing is, so much of scripture speaks of ties to the land (we were made out of the dust and there's a natural pull to it) farming, agriculture, husbandry, and an agrarian lifestyle that it's hard to understand a lot of the Bible apart from living that way or at least taking a good bit of time to learn about that way of life from friends, sermons, books, etc.
 
I said city. There really needs to be more options. If I had to choose, it would be an island in the middle of nowhere with a couple of good mountains or the city. Keep me out of small towns and suburbs. People there are NOSEY and think the entire world should do things the way they do, and heaven help you if you're the oddball (which I typically am).
 
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