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Does it bother you that you're not living in a big city?

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Does it bother you that you're not living in a big city? Would you move to one if you had the chance?
I don't understand how can people be content with living in small villages or towns.
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>>75792916
Can you define a "big city"?

For example, we have only one city bigger than 1mil people
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>>75792916
>Does it bother you that you're not living in a big city?
>population nearly 17 mil.
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>>75792916
I live in a big city and I barely ever leave my borough.
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>>75792916
No. I don't like big cities and the lack of living space.
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But I live in a big city 8M people and 18M more in its metro area
I hate the metropolitan area tho
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>>75793103

Helsinki would count, I guess. But what kind of taints it is the "remoteness". I would still feel kind of a yearning to move closer to central Europe.

>>75793185

Well, the question was meant for people who live in small towns or villages.
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>>75793185
17900000 acc to wiki
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>>75792916
does bosnia even have any "big" cities?
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I moved from Madrid to a 3k inhabitants place and it was okay (but I eventually moved from there too)
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>>75792916
Ya. Especially since I grew up in a non-shit city. Moving to the suburbs here feels like a huge downgrade in life quality.
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>>75792916

No it's quite cozy.
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>>75793186

Don't you ever get an itch to go an explore?

>>75793195

But there's so much more stuff to do. Museums, cute little cafes, nice places to eat, lovely parks, nice public transport, beautiful narrow streets to take walks in (only applies to few cities though).
I'm not even a person that's outgoing or sociable, but knowing that I'm potentially missing out on all of that is horrible.
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>>75793302

It's called nature
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>>75793275

No and that's why I hate it. After spending a month in Madrid, going back to my place feels like punishment.
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>>75792916
>Does it bother you that you're not living in a big city?
I'm living in a 15m city and I hate it.
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>>75792916
No, i want to be alone.
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>>75792916
It bothers me that I live in a big city
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No I hate big cities. Anything over 30k is shit tier. The only nice city I've lived in would be Singapore.
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>>75793448
>singapore
>nice
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>>75793490
Singapore is nice though
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>>75793519
>Asian city
>Nice
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>>75792916
I know that feel, moved from the city 3 years ago. miss it too much. Seeing different people, ideas and faces each time did good to me more than seeing the same shit everyday.
Yet... We don't really have "big" cities. Tel Aviv metropolitan area has about 3 million people in it and the second biggest place is Jerusalem with about 800K people in it.
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I moved from Stockholm (biggest city in Sweden) to a small cabin in the far out countryside.
I'm the last house on the road in a tiny village. Closest neighbor is about 5 km away.
City life is torture.
Here I can step outside and it's quiet. Just nature. Perfection.
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>>75792916
yes. Very much so.
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>>75792916
The only thing that bothers me is you can make much more money doing less in a big city. That's basically it. Big cities are full of minorities and government workers do I will pass
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>>75793738
>you can make much more money
You spend more.

I could sell the apartment my parents will leave me in İstanbul move somewhere else, _at least_ buy 3 houses and live off the rent
I would have about 280.000 dollars. That's with how weak Turkish lira has became. I could have 400.000-500.000 before
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>>75793649
Lucky bastard..I'm stuck in Stockholm..
Too much people, too much traffic. It's never quiet and you can't really be alone. And it's not even a big city compared to others in the world..
Fuck I hate cities. I grew up in the countryside.
Fresh air, nature, forests and lakes.
Now I'm surrounded by concrete, pollution and stressed people...
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>>75792916
Large cities are containment zones for utterly worthless people.
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>>75793983
This meme was debunked too many times. Big cities have have lower prices because of variety and market competition. Half of my relatives live in Moscow and their expenditures are much smaller than mines. Aside from rent and public transport everything else is cheaper
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>>75792916
it bothers me that I don't live in Poland
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>>75792916
Nope, I'd rather kill myself than live in a huge city.
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>>75792916
I prefer the countryside as someone who grew up in a big city.
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I do live a bigger city, it's horrible.
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>>75792916
>Does it bother you that you're not living in a big city?
No. I live in the countryside and I love it.
My daughter loves it, my wife loves it.
Neither of us would ever move into any kind if city.
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For those of you who prefer the countryside or smaller towns, how do you deal with situations like having to drive to town to buy groceries or not being able to just leave your house/apartment and enjoy the variety of life?
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>>75792916
>Does it bother you that you're not living in a big city?
Yes.

>Would you move to one if you had the chance?
I will after graduating.
I grew up in a mid-sized sity (~500k, second largest in Greece). However Athens is a fucking shithole and I'd never move there by choice. I don't know if it's representitive of other big cities though. If it is I'll just stick to mid-sized cities.
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>>75792916
Visiting cities is fine but I'd rather not live in them
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>>75794784
>how do you deal with situations like having to drive to town to buy groceries
I do what people have always done. I grow food. I hunt it. And fish it.
Once a month I drive to the store in town to buy other stuff. Have no need for anything else.
>not being able to just leave your house/apartment and enjoy the variety of life?
Are you for real?
Yesterday I took my wife and daughter out on a hike around the lake. My little girl was chasing frogs, picking flowers and running around as happy as she could be.
Me and my wife was just enjoying the sight.
Last week we all went horseback riding.
If you need artificial entertainment to enjoy life, then you are not living..
>pic related, my "grocery store"
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>>75794784
Well for one, there's the view. Then there's the idea of actually owning a considerable amount of land that's yours. Getting groceries also isn't that far, every village usually has a market thing. You can also have some chickens that will provide you with eggs and meat and some people get cows and sheep too. Not a lot, just enough to sustain yourself with additional food. There's a strong sense of community as well. Most people know you or know of you and when you get board, you go to others' house or you invite them to yours and you have coffee and talk about stuff. People in villages and stuff also larger families which is fun in my opinion.
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>>75795025
Are you some teenager writing our his fantasies?
Because the only other scenario is that you're yet another lazy farmer living on government subsidies. Or do you trade the hares you shoot for gas, internet and computers?
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>>75795119
>Most people know you or know of you
This is fun until you have whatever kind of personal problem that immediately becomes of public domain.
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>>75795377
>Or do you trade the hares you shoot for gas, internet and computers?
No? I drive to work and earn my paycheck.
I work as a tourist guide.
Like many others up here.
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>>75795377
Probably trying to make Sweden not seem cucky by being as anti-stereotypical as possible.

>hey dad what's that
>4chan
>why do you spend hours on it a day
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>>75792916
I'm living in the suburbs of Paris and it's terrible. You have all the problems of a big city (full of violent immigrants, polluted, costly, dirty, unsafe, etc.) and all the problems of a small city (uncultured, boring, ugly architecture, always the same people around, etc.) with none of the advantages.

>b-but you've got tons of great stuff near you!!
Yeah, all the interesting stuff is at least one hour away... if you take like 5,000 different buses and subway lines. And everything is too expensive by the way. So you never leave your horrible neighborhood, because it's almost never worth it.

Big cities are only good if you are rich enough to live in the centre and pay, pay, pay for everything. Otherwise they are hellholes, and I say this as a person who only likes the city life.
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>>75794883
>I don't know if it's representitive of other big cities though.
It isn't. I've been in quite a few cities in Europe and Athens was the shittiest one by far.
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>>75795595
Good. imo we should burn Athens to the ground and rebuild it.
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>>75795574
>at least one hour away
But aren't places like Vincennes and Saint-Denis relatively affordable? They're not that far away with the metro
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I live in a city of 400,000 people. It's the perfect size, and I really wouldn't want to deal with the traffic, housing prices and immigration in a larger city.
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>>75795670
This. It looks like fucking Syria
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city living is comfy
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>>75795685
>Vincennes
One of the most expensive cities in Europe, real estate costs at least 8,000 euros per m2. If you're not a rich widow, forget about it.

>Saint-Denis
Much cheaper (still more expensive than the best neighbourhoods of non-Parisian cities, at 3,000 euros per m2), but it's an absolute brown shithole. The worst of the worst.
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>>75795852
>florida
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>>75795973
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>>75795941
What about Villejuif or Ivry?
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>>75792916
I like it but this place has a bias for rural shitholes.
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City life is wayyyyyy better than any alternative in NA and probably places wrecked by the soviets, but European village life seems so comfy. You wake up in your four hundred year old house, walk to your laid-back job, stop at the bakery on the way home, hang around with the community, etc. Seems really nice.
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I live in a pretty small town just outside of Seattle and it's great. I drive for half an hour and I'm out in the woods, or I take the ferry across and I'm right in the middle of downtown.

I never want to live in the sticks again.
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>>75796094
>What about Villejuif or Ivry?
I'm around there. Count one good hour to get to the centre of Paris, because you have to catch to the bus that will lead you to the subway in the first place. And those buses are unreliable. You wait them for a long time, they don't come, they're stuck in the traffic, etc.

It's probably the same thing with Saint-Denis, which has the worst subway line of all anyway (the line 13, infamous for having "pushers" like in Japan because it's always fully packed with people).
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>>75793337
Hey Balkan friend, I was just in Madrid too (though only for a few days for touristic purposes)

It's a great city but I hated how no one could speak fucking English
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>>75796355
Yeah I know about the line 13, but it always surprises me why the heck would it be so packed, even when the 1 has more passengers and it's not that packed (I guess automatisation helped), even the 4 doesn't seem so terrible when I use it. Is it because the traffic is concentrated ina certain segment? Saint-Lazare-Montparnasse I guess?
Hopefully the extension of the 14 will improve things.
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I went to Toronto(metro population 6 million) and it was fucked

>massive 16 lane freeways, traffic was fucked took forever to get around
>public transit is overloaded and there's too much sprawl for it to be effective
>endless sprawl with giant powerlines and highways cutting through it
>a shitty old ass house is 1 million dollars
>rent prices are fucked because nobody can afford a house
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>>75796691
Also 6 million is tiny compared to other cities in the world, I've never been to a hypercity like New York or Tokyo, I want to though just to see
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>>75795973
>le ebin florida meme
kill yourself reddit scum
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>>75796691
toronto looks cold and lonely, and it's like the warmest canadian city.
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>>75796691
>driving in a city
You deserve every bad thing that happens to you.
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>>75795476
I envy your life swedebro. God bless you and your wonderful white family living the dream
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>>75796691
Yeah Toronto is not that good of a city, it's just a less shitty Los Angeles at best. You should try Montreal or Vancouver
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>>75796569
This reminds me that I broke up with my gf because she was living on the other side of Paris--thus it took me at least 90 minutes to go to her place.

At some point I couldn't bear wasting three or four hours every day in public transport, just for her... She was a nice 7.5/10 athletic girl, we had solid sex, but once again, it wasn't worth it. The travel was way too exhausting, too time-consuming, too tedious.

(Line 13 goes from one the most populous French department (93) to 2 big stations of Paris (out of 4), so it's central for too many people at once. And the carriages are too old, too slow, don't contain enough people, etc. Indeed the extended 14 will be a game-changer (you seem knowledgeable!), as well as the new lines 15 to 18 for the "Grand Paris".)
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>>75797203
By the way I had to take the line 13 to see my gf and it was the worst part every time. :)
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>grew up in small town of 5000 people
>now live in vienna with 1,8 million people

It's shit. Appartments are outrageously expensive and there is noise 24/7. I want to go back, but there is no work on the countryside.
Fuck cities, I hate them.
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>>75797203
paris is too big
I live in Grenoble, my gf is in Lyon and we do just fine, it takes an hour for me to drop by anytime I want
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>>75792916
I hate big cities and everything that comes with it.
I currently live in a small city of only around 36,000 people and it is very close to a big city, which is nice because then if I ever need to go to somewhere in the big city I can just make a day out of it.
But even the city I'm living in now is starting to become too populated for my liking
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>>75795476
my simple life goal here
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>>75797378
Yep, I know the Lyon-Grenoble connection quite well, and it's more realistic to have your gf in another city like this, than to cross all Paris like I did.

In certain cases, it can even be faster to do Paris-Lyon in TGV than to go from suburb to suburb in Paris...

Anyway, I'll have to move to a smaller city next year for work, but I'm bitter just thinking I won't be living in a 10+ million city.

(Sorry for mediocre English y'all, it's 2 AM)
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>>75797378
>Paris is too big
It's not compared to other european cities, Paris is dense af.

>>75797203
Yeah, i visit Paris every year so I kinda know the system+i'm a public transportation nerd.

Anyway i'm sprry anon, I know that feel, here in Rome is even worse, we only have 3 lines and it sometimes takes me 1 hour and a half to go to my partner's place (I also had to take a secondary branch and sometimes had to wait 15 minutes for the train).
Terrible, but worth it as long as there's a real non-sexual interest and one can use the car for night dates. Also the trip is usually not packed and I always have a seat so I guess it's more bearable.
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>>75793218
t. ecatepense
Kys faggot
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>>75797750
>4.3 million people (urban area)
>3 lines

Oops.

A-at least you have good weather and beautiful monuments to watch between two trips!
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>>75797369
Is there work for English teachers in the countryside? I want to live in a German speaking country to pick up the language and Austria seems pretty /out/ friendly. I'm a native English speaker
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A city needs thoughtful design, and less cars
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>>75793574
>>75793519

>clean
>modern
>safe
>full of mainly white people
What am I forgetting?
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Not at all, Bosniabro. I get the attraction, and I feel it too. But for me it would be something I could only do for like a month or so, like you were in Madrid.

But pic related is the kind of place where I want to live. That tiny house in the distance, give that fucking house and I'll be the happiest man alive.
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I love big cities,even though i like to go to the countryside when i can.

I'd rank them like this (cities, not metro area) for the ones i've lived in:

paris > Tokyo > New York >>>> London
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>No green
>Buildings everywhere
>Loud
>Lots of cars
And everyone seems to be glued to their smartphones, running from one place to the other. They always seem unhappy. And no one bothers with you, since yure just another face in the crowd, they will never see again.

After two weeks in a bigger city I (literally) get sick of the people, who never seem to have time, and sick of the noise and the dirt.
Even in foreign countries I love the rural area more than the big cities, and the people in rural area are always much more pleasant to be around than the city folks.
Living in a big city would be hell for me.
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>>75793649
That is super comfy, I wish britain looked like this
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>>75799295
where did you live in London?
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Not really, I hate high density living and hope Perth never moves in that direction. I love having a decent sized block with a garden out the back
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>>75793519
Singapore is horrible. Completely soulless, filled with autistic people that have no idea how to have fun and everything is illegal
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I can't stand how there's people everyone. On the street, on the buses, in the supermarkets etc. you really don't have much privacy.
50-100k cities are much better
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One thing about the cities that I like is that there are so many freaks and fucked up people so you feel you got your own shit together whereas in the smaller cities everyone who doesn't get an education and later family with house and shit is looked down upon
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>>75792916
>Does it bother you that you're not living in a big city?
Not at all.
>Would you move to one if you had the chance?
Absolutely not. My wife is from NYC, and her immediate family lives in a nice part of Manhattan. I could live there if I wanted to, but it's just not my thing.
>I don't understand how can people be content with living in small villages or towns.
I'm in my 30s, and I live in a very nice rural area. If I need to go to a city, Montreal and Boston aren't too far, and Albany will do for most things.
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What big city? I've never lived in a big city before.
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>>75801897
Singapore or Kuala Lumpur to near your country?
I live in Tokyo(Nakano-Ward).
The city population is the most big in the world(Tokyo region puoulation are 35 millions).
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I live in a "small city" of 165 000, but it's still the largest city around. It's almost entirely unchecked wilderness for hundreds of kilometers in every direction.

I'm originally from Montréal, and there are definitely things that I miss. The transit, the events, the crowds, the wide variety of shopping, food, and jobs. But mostly I miss having bars open past 11pm.

A smaller city is nice, though. You have more of a sense of community (I actually know my neighbours), and while there aren't as many events, the ones that happen are that much more special. Plus without the sprawl, you're a lot closer to the heart of things.

I'd probably move to a big city if I had the chance, but at this point, I don't see the need to. My small city feels more like home.
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>>75802643
>no bars open past 11pm.
that's a really depressing feel and I know it first hand.
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>>75802716
It's the worst, especially because the monopoly that is the LCBO runs on what are effectively "bank hours". So you can't even buy liquor for yourself after work most days.
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>>75792916
Not really. I live the comfy rural life and I would never trade it.
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I went to NYC and went around Manhattan and Brooklyn and that's too huge and too many people for me.
I can't imagine living in it and having that be your every day life.
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I lived in a big city all my life (Moscow). Fuck that shit. Now I live in bumfuck suburbia and loving it.
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>>75801994
>>>75801897 (You)
>Singapore or Kuala Lumpur to near your country?
>I live in Tokyo(Nakano-Ward).
>The city population is the most big in the world(Tokyo region puoulation are 35 millions).

The population of this entire country is 100 times less than that.

Jokes aside, I've lived in kuala lumpur before, it's a decent city, Singapore is soulless like the Aussie said, I cannot imagine to do anything else other than work over there.
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>>75793574
Hong Kong and Tokyo are elite
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The thing is you will not be happier living in a big city.
You will have more things to do and less time to do it. Traffic or long transit times. More work to do. Everyone around you is a stranger. You will have fewer meaningful connections. Pollution, crowds, crime, no sense of community.
I imagine most people would feel much more content living in the countryside.
However my impression is there is lots of druggos in the country. Well there is lots of druggos in the city too. There are lots of druggos in Australia. I fear that problem is getting worse.
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>>75803010
I don't think Singapore is bad. Depends what you consider fun I guess.
There are nice natural areas nearby. Walk by the river or a nice part of town. I enjoyed sitting in I think they're called a hawker market, and sitting under the fan with a cold drink after a long day, watching life go by.

I think bars and clubs should not qualify as fun. If you want a drink or dance with friend you can do that at home much cheaper. Clubs especially are like a modern day opium den or the whorehouse for the coolies - trick you into spending all your disposable income on an experience you are perhaps pressured into doing since everyone else is doing it but ultimately if you even remember it you will not be any better off, and you are trapped in a cycle of earning money and spending it on nights out.
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>>75803445
so basically you're an autist
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>>75803450
If I have autism no one has confirmed it
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>>75803465
I just did mate
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>>75803445
I agree
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I live in a small city but it's considered hip (guess which one, hint, it's in the south) so we get a good amount of entertainment here.

I guess one nice thing about larger cities is variety, there's always something opening up, new food, etc.. even in my area where there's tons of places to eat I've sort of gone through all of them.
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I lived in a big city(few m), before that I lived in a 180k city(300-350k metro) and I returned to the 180k one because it had all of the shit the bigger one had plus more nature, history and lakes.
Sure we don't have buildings that are over 100 m tall but who in the right mind cares about those kind of things.
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>>75792916
I live in a 1.7 million people city

is that considered as big?
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>>75796398

Most of the places where I went to had people who could speak it. I fell in love with the city, it seems perfect in every regard.

>>75799081

But you won't have a reliable internet connection there. ;_;

After reading this thread I kind of see why it's not everyone's cup of tea. Maybe living in a smaller, but "organised" city of 500K which is close to a big metropolis is the ideal combination.
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>>75802643

Seems like you're living in an apartment building, the same you'd find in big cities. Wouldn't it be the same to "get to know" your neighbours there?
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>>75805229
>I fell in love with the city, it seems perfect in every regard.

That's how I felt about Vienna desu
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>>75792916
cities are loud, full of pollution, with everything requiring your attention, tiny spaces, have to pass by a shit ton of people everyday, everyone ignoring each other, etc..
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>>75792916
i want to live in cornwall, away from it all
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madrid is so pretty and comfy desu
buenos aires too. some parts look like a carbon copy of madrid
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>>75800523
That pic oddly reminds me of combat instinct 3 at the final boss battle.
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>>75795574
same here, plz send help
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Only reason I still live in a city is because I found an apartment on a street that is quiet and kinda hidden.
I almost never venture out into the bigger parts of town.
>pic related, the street where I live
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>>75806726

Dunno, never been there, but it might happen to me as well. I don't want to cheat on Madrid though.
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>>75806726
Me too. And about Stockholm too.
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>>75792916
>Living in a awful shithole surrounded by mentally unestable people, degenerancy, noise and pollution.

Oh, I cant understand why havent I moved to such a pardise yet.
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>>75793649
Looks pretty comfy. Living in a house in the middle of nowhere is my dream
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>>75810853
>Not living in the Pyrénées , raising sheeps to sell their wool and milk
What are you waiting for anon ? You could do that for a month with WWOOF I'm sure.
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>>75795377
Own a land, work your land, get the products (aka oil), sell your production, get money, buy things.

Or

Catch your car, go to the town near to your home, work there, go back to your house, live.
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>>75792916
no
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>>75795574
This, for "interesting stuffs" a small city is even better.

A big city is horrible. They are so grear that to do something you have to travel big distances with a usually nightmarish trafic jams (stress).

Big cities are the worst model of human living by far. They are unsustainable and antisocial by definition.

Also, they usually hace nothing to do culturally but also socially with the country real culture.
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>>75810984
Come home French man. Trade niggers for sheep and cattle. Trade your Pass Navigo for a good pair of shoes. Trade your cellphone alarm for the chirps of birds. Trade pollution for the clean air of the mountain. Trade reality TV for workmanship and apéro around saucisson and paté.
Trade your life, for a real one.
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>>75793103
>Can you define a "big city"?
Part and Parcel
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>>75810943
It is far away from me. I live in the south (Andalusia). But at least I live in the outsides of a relatively small city
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>>75801309
most people are afraid to do anything here, thanks to the government
also, censorship is high
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>>75795574
>>75808111
Why dont you meet up and suck eachother off?
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>>75793649
except that during the winter you want to kill yourself every day
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>>75797369
but vienna is the comfiest city in yurop
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>>75795574
>>75808111
>>75792916
I live in Paris proper here it's great, i enjoy it a lot
It doesn't deserve the bad reputation t b h, outside the city walls it's awful but here it's mostly rich people and pretty nice
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>>75812089
>except that during the winter you want to kill yourself every day
What? Winter is amazing here. Just snow and -15 degrees most of the time.
The area gets extremely beautiful.
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I live in a city of about 1 million roughly, and it's pretty comfy, I never feel too crowded and things aren't too expensive but there doesn't seem to be much that I missing out on if I lived in a mega city. Assuming I don't become mega rich that is.

>>75812212
Yeah I'd love to live in Vienna but I'm worried I'd never make any friends ;_;
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>>75793490
>>75793519

no
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>>75792916
No not really.
I live in a small town. It's pretty comfortable.
35 minute drive to a huge shopping mall and area packed with cafés and food joints.
So pretty much have everything.
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>>75814187
>drive
ugh
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Ideally it would be best to have an apartment in a big city, and a house in the middle of nowhere. But of course I can't afford either.
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>>75815604
summer cabins are a thing you know
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How big is Sarajevo?
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>>75814731
>ugh
Kek. Driving is fun.
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>>75816019
maybe if you're an uneducated bönde
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>>75810943
>You could do that for a month

I want it for life, not a month.

>>75812089
faggot, are you a refugee?
Even I as a Brazilian didn't have trouble dealing with almost permanent darkness and -10 to -20 in Norway.
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>>75797173
>Hongcouver
Toronto is a white supremacist's wet dream compared to Vancouver. There's road signs near Richmond written only in Cantonese

The best parts of Canada are the rural and Atlantic areas, along with North BC
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>>75816995
>>>/pol/
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>>75806726
Lol vienna, even Budapest is better by far
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>>75812089
>you want to kill yourself every day
Faggot, that's your problem right there. You should be more like the americans, and want to kill everyone else instead.

Here, have this educational episode of Billy and Mandy, one the things americans tell their kids to watch before sleeping every night, and maybe you'll learn something from them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wdpi0c-ZCM
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>>75812089
ota poeka mallia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVrKBfaqyi4
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Kinda, yeah.
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>>75817673
pakkanen selvästi hapertanu höperön ukon aivot, sääliksihän tuota käy
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nah I'm ok
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I live in Milan and can't wait to get my degree and get the fuck back to my irrelevant seaside town
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>>75792916
everything i need in life is a cozy little house near the lake in a small forest
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>>75792916
In my part of Canada, you can choose to live in the big city, or you can live in a tiny insignificant rural community with nothing to do at all. I wish we had medium size towns like in Europe.
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>>75818864
How will you get rid of your garbage and compost? How will you get groceries? When you flush the toilet, where does the poo go?
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>>75817576
>>>reddit
most of the 4chan is racist, it's not just a /pol/ meme
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>>75819051
i will fucking drive a vehicle to throw garbage and to get groceries
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>>75819010
you have nothing to do not because u live in hibilly but becos u have no friends
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>>75819096
>hurr durr u dont like freezing ur ass off in a boring shithole hurr durr u must be a refugee faggot hurr durr u have to go back

ye thats /pol/
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>>75819321
savage
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>>75815998

Pales in comparison to any equally sized western city. Compared to something like Madrid it's a joke.
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>>75792916
>I don't understand how can people be content with living in small villages or towns.

I don't understand how can people be content with living in cities with the constant background noise and traffic
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>>75792916
>I don't understand how can people be content with living in small villages or towns.
because the difference in quality of life between rural and urban living in the top 10 or 15 countries is far smaller than developing nations
almost all of the small towns within an hour of toronto are blowing up with suburbs, the town I was raised in has went from ~25k 15 years ago to ~45 or 50k current day
but I have moved to a small city (200k) and I love it, I think that large cities (especially in NA) have very little warmth to them
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I fucking hate city life but this is where the jobs are.
My parents pay less rent for a three bedroom cottage than I do for a shitty flat.
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>>75803319
>More work to do. Everyone around you is a stranger. You will have fewer meaningful connections.

Literally paradise.
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>>75808217
Looks really nice.
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Fuck London desu, I want to leave but just spent all my savings on a car.
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I lived in 4 places in my life :An African big city, A European big city ,An American big city , American suburb .here is my rating
American suburb > European city > American city > African city
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>>75822138
See, I live in one of those suburbs which is just blowing up, and I'd personally love to move to a European city, where stuff is close and not so focused on cars. I wouldnt mind moving to Montreal or Quebec City for a few years actually.
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>>75798372
We don't need english speaker in general because there are too many already. Though as a native speaker you might have a chance. But expect minimum salary.
>>75812212
>>75814047
If Vienna is the comfiest city in Europe I truely pity all of you lads ;_;
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>>75823052
yeah, unfortunately most of our cities (outside of quebec and maybe montreal) are pretty north american, in the sense that they were built around car transport

even st john's, literally the oldest anglo city in NA, is pretty crap for walking around, outside of the waterfront

which suburb u from pham, orangeville here 2bh
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>>75792916
>I don't understand how can people be content with living in small villages or towns
big cities are worse in any aspect. If it wouldn't be for the jobs, I would stay in my hometown.
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>>75792916
I live in a small town of about a thousand people but I'm only 20 minutes away from a 20000 people town. If you go a bit further there's a city of about 40000 people.
On this island there are about 100000 permanent residents, and I have everything I need, even if I have to drive 40 minutes to the city.
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