maomao
普費斯
Absolutely. Our garden's about Big enough to walk round a rotary washing line with a shed at the end. But you can see the sky and everything.
Do you love big cities?
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blossie33
trailer trash
I do yes, I'm a city girl, Birmingham originally and I now live in London.
My grandmother lived in the country and I spent quite a bit of time there as a youngster which was great and I also had relatives who lived by the sea.
I do love the country and the sea but I would miss having access to the choice cities offer - interesting places to visit, galleries, museums, cinema, theatre, music, classes in anything you can think of etc.
However, cities can be very irritating at times!
My grandmother lived in the country and I spent quite a bit of time there as a youngster which was great and I also had relatives who lived by the sea.
I do love the country and the sea but I would miss having access to the choice cities offer - interesting places to visit, galleries, museums, cinema, theatre, music, classes in anything you can think of etc.
However, cities can be very irritating at times!
mx wcfc
Well-Known Member
I lived, studied and worked in London for 25 years. I loved it.
now, I go to London 4 or 6 times a month (cos of work) and its sort of OK, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore. Part of me sometimes thinks that people/(urbs) have more fun than me, but I'm largely too old for that shit. On balance, it's a city for the young and for people who love it or have always lived there.
now, I go to London 4 or 6 times a month (cos of work) and its sort of OK, but I'm glad I don't live there anymore. Part of me sometimes thinks that people/(urbs) have more fun than me, but I'm largely too old for that shit. On balance, it's a city for the young and for people who love it or have always lived there.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
What's to love about the suburbs? Unless you enjoy the spectacle of exasperated fortysomethings entombed in loveless marriages yelling at small children called Harry and Imogen because they won't shut up and let daddy figure out how to turn on the reversing camera on his Kia Sportage.
klang
klang
seriously though, I've grown up in the burbs, the country, and the big city, spent equal amounts of time in all settings.
the burbs i liked for easy access to the wilderness of the country (cycling, lakes, mountains etc) as well as easy access to the city. sure it was boring for a young teen, but that made me and my mates all the more innovative and adventurous. we were a proper tight knit gang and lived a life only possible in the burbs.
bit later when I got into music it was surprisingly easy to run a band. enough bored mates willing to learn instruments, enough garages for rehearsal rooms, enough folks with cars to drive us about.
wouldnt want to swap that episode of my life.
the burbs i liked for easy access to the wilderness of the country (cycling, lakes, mountains etc) as well as easy access to the city. sure it was boring for a young teen, but that made me and my mates all the more innovative and adventurous. we were a proper tight knit gang and lived a life only possible in the burbs.
bit later when I got into music it was surprisingly easy to run a band. enough bored mates willing to learn instruments, enough garages for rehearsal rooms, enough folks with cars to drive us about.
wouldnt want to swap that episode of my life.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Actually it does for me too.
klang
klang
you'd love it in Stoke Newington then, which isnt in the suburbs.
TruXta
tired
You get all that in the countryside too. At least me and my mates did.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Is that a London place? I don't do those.
klang
klang
my childhood in the country was fairly lonely. I didn't mind that, I liked it, but i was mainly on my own, my siblings, and maybe the kids from the neighbouring farm.
In the suburbs there were enough kids to pick and choose from.
klang
klang
yep. notorious for exasperated fortysomethings entombed in loveless marriages yelling at small children called Harry and Imogen because they won't shut up and let daddy figure out how to turn on the reversing camera on his Kia Sportage.
TruXta
tired
I guess it depends exactly how country we're talking. That garage you describe was my parents garage, and the fact that it was in the middle of nowhere made it that much more attractive to dope smoking 14 year old wannabe punks
klang
klang
if you have 14 year old wannabe punks around you to smoke dope with...I guess it depends exactly how country we're talking. That garage you describe was my parents garage, and the fact that it was in the middle of nowhere made it that much more attractive to dope smoking 14 year old wannabe punks
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
That's another thing - i bet it's easier to score in a city than suburbia or the countryside
TruXta
tired
Quite a few as it happened
I think at one point 5 or 6 different bands, with overlapping members of course, were rehearsing there. Every Thursday we would pile in front of the telly to watch Seinfeld and X files 
klang
klang
but dealing in the suburbs financed my move to the big city.
TruXta
tired
Not in my pretty extensive experience.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
There's suburbs and there's suburbs. When I think of suburbs I think of semi-urban places like Bromley and Croydon with all the disadvantages of London proper (pollution, lack of nature, grey shitness) and none of the advantages, where people start fights just from the boredom. I grew up in these places and they can fuck off. But suburbia is a situational term and I guess theoretically could be okay.
felixthecat
are we there yet?
Big cities freak me out until I find its big expanse of green. Born and bred in the country here. Cities have lots of conveniences like public transport and everything on your doorstep but no, not for me. Too many people, too much everything.
I'll stick to the occasional visit, which I enjoy. Always glad to get back to yokel land though
I'll stick to the occasional visit, which I enjoy. Always glad to get back to yokel land though
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
There's a well-documented habit of families moving out of cities to raise children, but bringing up kids in London has certain advantages. This weekend our 13 year-old had a sleepover with a mate down in Tooting - she got there herself, they went out to dinner themselves locally, then the next day she travelled up to town and joined us (to see the Bodyworlds exhibition) on her own. In the country a child of that age would need to be driven places.
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I not only dislike large cities, part of me feels suffocated due to being landlocked.
It's particularly frustrating living in Bristol because the river Avon is tidal as far as a weir about a mile from my home and I sometimes catch a whiff of the sea.
That and there are more seagulls here than on the coast.
It's particularly frustrating living in Bristol because the river Avon is tidal as far as a weir about a mile from my home and I sometimes catch a whiff of the sea.
That and there are more seagulls here than on the coast.
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
I don't like big cities to live in atall & have felt much more relaxed and happy since I left London 2 years ago. I love visiting cities though & do miss all the opportunities and free stuff and the fact there's always something to do and somewhere to go. And also the fact that you can be anonymous and that no one cares who you are and what you do.
krtek a houby
Anger is Hi-NRG
Depends on the city, I guess. Big crowds can be upsetting sometimes.
ash
Inittogether
Was the exhibition worth it - we have seen his stuff twice before and it was as amazing
- anything new at Piccadilly
Was it very touristy is
But they DON'T have everything on your doorstep!
They (ie them big city places) sneakily place their Interesting Things half of the city away, which means you have to be all decisive about getting the trains, buses etc. Plus there are lots of people. And roads. And traffic. All right, on a more serious note, cities are quite bad if you lack money to go to all the exciting Everything. And the going to and fro on the tube in London was pretty horrible. So if you're working, you really don't feel like doing any "out" after you get home, and people not working would find the travel expensive. Cities have many Things but they tend not to be where people can afford to live. (Ah, I suppose, admittedly, the essence of that particular issue is not really about the mere *size* of the place.)
"Yokel land" sounds sort of appealing, though I'd have to go back and 're-read to check what sort of place you mean.
Damn, I am stuck in Glasgow for the foreseeable. Still, could be worse.
(Had a flatshare with the sea at the bottom of the garden once. Oh, for a time machine!)
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