Are you a person accustomed to a city or urban lifestyle and unsuited to life in the country or do you view living in the country as providing a peaceful, serene, and simple atmosphere, the cost of living being comparatively cheaper?

My goal is to save enough money to be able to move to the country and acquire a beautiful, lush green oasis, deep in the woods. A magical serene place where you hear the songs of the birds and you can see the scamper of wildlife. It would be very cool to find deer and bunny rabbits in my front yard!!!


If your heart calls for wide open space

and you yearn to breathe deeply,

stretching your body and mind as far as you can reach...

If your eyes ache to rest on distant horizons,

scanning the expanse between here and there..

Then face it, you want to be a country bumpkin!

I'm from a small town of less than 1,000 people. The town I live in now still only has around 3,000, so I guess I'm a bumpkin. Never had any desire to live in a congested, noisy, smelly city. No offense to anyone who does; I know there are benefits, like more diverse things to do, more opportunity, etc. But it's just not for me.

I've lived in the city through my entire life. But I've been to small towns and rural places.

My dad has a property in Nelson Township and that's very rural. And I told you that I would go to The Milan Melon Festival on Labor Day Weekends (I hope to go this year with my friends) the town of Milan only has 1200 people.

But since I have no car right now, I think the city is where I belong.

A little bit of both. I appreciate the convienence of the city and the peacefulness of the country.

Basically a City Slicker, more of a Suburbanite if that is sort of a
middle ground category.

I really don't know. I used to live up by Cleveland, and was actually in the city a lot up there and then we moved out towards Toledo where I'm now surrounded by cornfields. Its hard for me to say that I like one over the other. I mean, Cleveland's not a small city, and I got used to that up there, and it seemed like there was more to do there. I actually used to go shopping more and out to places. Here, there isn't as much, but I can have my friends over, we can play music and the neighbors don't get mad, we can have bon fires and shoot off fireworks and no one notices. We actually have a swimming pool and a deck, something that we could have never had up by Cleveland. I could live in either one and be pretty happy.

City slicker

City Slicker too, but much less slick than I used to me (meaning I would not mind moving to a smaller city--getting over monolithic NYC)

Definitely city slicker. I love going to the country for a getaway vacation but I can't see myself living up there.

I have been a country girl all of my life.My home town has around 300 people and my current town(10 miles from my hometown) which is a suburb of Flint, Michigan has around 5000. That's big enough for me! Cities make me nervous:eek:

Thanks to everyone for posting their comments! It's nice to read the variety of thoughts on the topic of city and country living.

I left the city because my truck kept getting broken into.
I Lived in a mobile home in the woods but got tired of pulling
ticks off my carcass. Now I am a suburbanite.

Somewhere in the middle...work in the city, spend time in the city, but live on the outskirts of a very small town....love living close to the woods and mountain.