City VS Country

rG-tom

rG-tom

rG-tom

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Hey,

I'm off work this week to sort some other bits and peaces out from my sideline job (photography), so I'm at home. Today has been the first day for a long time that the sun has been out, and it's an absolutely fabulous day.

Where I live is surrounded by countryside, and it is just a brilliant place to go for a walk. I only went out for 45 minutes with the dog, but it just feels so nice to be able to walk out of the house and within 50 yards the only human traces I see are the odd fence between fields etc.

This time last year I was living in a suburban area (Whitefield, MCR) and despite it not being full of towerblocks and still having the odd bit of grass etc it was just such a depressing place to live compared to being able to get away from it all so easily. I live practically at the top of a fairly big hill and can see for miles around out of all the windows, and yea in some directions i can see the odd new housing estate, but looking west the only building i can see bar the ones on my close is a farmhouse that is about 2 miles away.

I'm not in the middle of nowhere either, I'm only 15 miles from where i work and only really 45 minutes from the city centre of manchester, I have 3x 24 hour supermarkets within 5 miles as well as co-ops etc, so other than when drunk my standard of normal life is still fully functional. Oh yea, and I have Virgin 50mb :D

Has anyone here moved from the countryside to a more built up area and actually enjoyed it bar the obvious advantages when going out and getting hammered? I just couldn't envisage ever living in a properly built up area again!

Tom.
 
50mb I wish I had that... I live on a farm the internet is not good at all, so I wish I was in a place that had brilliant internet...I don't mind where I stay really as along as the people are good.
 
I live 5 miles from Wigan and 50 yards from the house is fields can walk for miles without hitting a village or house, I hate going to cities, just too many people rushing about, too much traffic, very quiet here at night and in the day and hardly any trouble happens.
 
I can't stand it in the country for more than a couple of days. It's just dull. I like to be surrounded by hubbub, even if it’s not all nice.

Plus there's something about the village mentality that gets up my nose.
 
Dull in what way? What can you "do" in a built up area, excluding drink, that you couldn't do living a few miles from a built up area? The only added excitement that I remember from living in Whitefield was drunken chavs vandalising my GF's car on the way home from the tram station (had her passenger side wing mirror kicked off 3 times in 8 months)

Other bonuses of being a little bit out means that I can have a decent sized 3 bed detached house for less rent than most people pay for 1 or 2 bedroom flats, so I can play music/watch films at whatever volume, at whatever time of night I want to.
 
i look out of my bedroom windows and see fields but there is a school aswell which is a bit of a blot of the landscape but if i walk 3 minutes i'm in open space. there's a great walk i have done a few times which goes along a canal and then i walk up to an old railway track and i really feel like i'm in the middle of nowhere. i've always lived in the countryside and could never really see myself in a city.

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Shudders, downside of towns/cities people getting hammered and attacking people

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-12386453

A teenager who blinded a woman in one eye by stamping on her face while wearing stiletto heels has been jailed.

Amy Smith, 18, of Bolton Road, Ashton-in-Makerfield, attacked Joanne Brown on the dance floor of the Pada Lounge in Wigan, Greater Manchester, in May 2009.
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Much prefer a nice quite pint in a ye olde pub that has been around for centuries.
 
rG-tom said:
Dull in what way? What can you "do" in a built up area, excluding drink, that you couldn't do living a few miles from a built up area? The only added excitement that I remember from living in Whitefield was drunken chavs vandalising my GF's car on the way home from the tram station (had her passenger side wing mirror kicked off 3 times in 8 months)

Other bonuses of being a little bit out means that I can have a decent sized 3 bed detached house for less rent than most people pay for 1 or 2 bedroom flats, so I can play music/watch films at whatever volume, at whatever time of night I want to.
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I can get on my bike and be anywhere in the city within 10 minutes, and be well out of the city in 20. I have the river with rowing and punting, several parks and common land, 2 shopping centres, cinema, library, bars, restaurants, coffee shops, several swimming pools (one outdoor), snooker/pool clubs, tennis/badminton/squash courts and most importantly a whole host of friends within walking distance. That's before talking about any of the events they have in the city such as Cambridge Beer Festival which is awsome, and the fact I'm only 10 minutes from work.

Ooh and I have 50mb bb but I don't use much because I have better things to do :p
 
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It depends what you mean by built-up area. I agree that for smaller urban centres where it's possible to live outside without too much of a travel in, you get a quiet (and cheap) home life and most of the benefits of the city with few of the downsides. However, if we are talking about a metropolis such as London, then there is simply no way to live a country life and enjoy the benefits of the city. The distances involved are too great to make them accessibile. The only way to enjoy London life is to live in London. If you live anywhere else you are simply not experiencing it.
 
My parents live in rural Derbyshire which is a very nice part - again fields and wonderful countryside, with Uttoxeter 15 minutes by car and Stoke/Derby 30-40 mins. I'm down in Cambridge now and it's great - I live in the west of Cambridge and my 15 min walk to work every day is down by the University library, along the river and then over a field. Not bad for a city :)
 
countryside people are worse than city people.

Nosey bar stewards and bitching like crazy about each other.
 
Live on the outskirts of a Country Town, best of both worlds! I love it where I am currently living, all the Town amenities and benefits, none of the Town problems, Countryside is less than 20 paces away, it takes me 4mins walk and I'm in the middle of a Woods, I also get 20Mbs Broadband as the Exchange is not too far away but my line is very old :(
 
MikeHunt79 said:
While the countryside is pretty, but not much to do, I find it boring but it's good for things like mountain biking...
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define what there is to do? There are a fair few pubs close by, bowling alleys, cinemas, shopping centres etc all <10 miles away? I'm not talking about staying out in the countryside for a few days, im talking about being on the edge of it
 
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