Are you a city person or a countryside person?

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I think I could quite handily live in the countryside if work allowed it. I would prefer also to have somewhere I could call a base in the city too when necessary so that I didn't have to drive for events, but I could live without.
 
The countryside is nice for an OCCASIONAL visit, but I need CIVILISATION far too much to cope with extended periods of solitude.

And even then, the city needs to be up to par. Glasgow is at the smallest end I could deal with.
 
I like the countryside. It's lovely and green, and in Spring there are baby goats and sheep and geese everywhere - lovely! But I find it very boring and a bit isolating to be there for too long.

I'm much more of a city person. I'm not much of a planner so it's nice to be able to be able to find interesting things to see or do on a whim. There are things I don't like about cities too, but the benefits outweigh the negatives for me.
 
The city, but increasingly as I've got older, the country.

But never suburbia. I've got friends who do it and say it offers the best of both worlds, but for me it's the absolute opposite - the worst of both.
 
I grew up in suburbs and hated it. I now live and have lived in or near city or town centres for many years.

A friend lives in the countryside. Cute house, surrounded by nature, they get deers and shit that roam into their garden, but no central heating, bad plumbing and they get virtually no takeaway services.

Rural is nice, but it has to be near amenities or infrastructure.
 
This time last year we very much were on to move rural. As in a house looking out on to farmland from the back garden, put the deposit down and everything. I’m glad we pulled out, I’m not quite ready for it. I now live on top of a metro station and can be in central manchester in 20 minutes and have amazing bars, restaurants, wine shops and sourdough on my doorstep and love it. I think once Ron Jr flies the nest we’ll move somewhere rural (and spanish) and keep a few animals, but right now I love my urban cosmopolitan life.
 
Small city/big town/semi rural please.

I live minutes away from the countryside but with all the facilities i need equally minutes away. Seems perfect. I can't stand massive cities and their seemingly endless sprawl, but I would get very quickly bored in the middle of nowhere.
 
I do think Manchester is amazing in that it has the big city energy but 20 minutes and I’m in rural landscapes. I could jump on my bike now and cycle to a country pub or I could jump on a tram and be gazing up at skyscrapers. London can’t offer me that shit.
 
I'm not really sure what bracket the Island falls in.

People joke we have nothing here, but I'm a 5 minute walk from the shops, pubs and restaurants, but also a 5 minute walk from the beach and a 10 minute drive to beautiful countryside.

I love visiting cities, but I could never live in one. But I also don't know if I could live so far in the countryside I'd have no phone signal and have to drive an hour to a shop.
 
Fairytale of Big Ron said:
I do think Manchester is amazing in that it has the big city energy but 20 minutes and I’m in rural landscapes. I could jump on my bike now and cycle to a country pub or I could jump on a tram and be gazing up at skyscrapers. London can’t offer me that shit.
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Bristol doesn't have the big city energy as Manchester for sure (or unfortunately, the trams :( ) - the pace is different (for many that's the appeal), but it very much has the same country on the doorstep. You can stand in the city centre and see the Mendip hills, fields and trees in the distance. And because the topography of the city essentially makes it kind of splat shaped, you have fingers of green pretty much coming right into the heart of it.
 
lolly said:
Bristol doesn't have the big city energy as Manchester for sure (or unfortunately, the trams :( ) - the pace is different (for many that's the appeal), but it very much has the same country on the doorstep. You can stand in the city centre and see the Mendip hills, fields and trees in the distance. And because the topography of the city essentially makes it kind of splat shaped, you have fingers of green pretty much coming right into the heart of it.
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I looooooved the train journey from Southampton to Bristol in evening time in the summer. So pretty.
 
I like a mix of both. Manchester is easily accessible but also i’ve got everything I need in walking distance, shops, bars restaurants, loads of green space. I’d find it a little suffocating living slap bang in the city and don’t think i’d like being out in the countryside having to drive everywhere
 
Dark Carnival said:
Definitely not counting tourists and non permanent residents. Still 150k isn’t that rural I would say.
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No I don't feel it's rural. I think there's approx 25,000 in the town I'm in which I believe is the second biggest on the island.
 
AleXmas said:
I like a mix of both. Manchester is easily accessible but also i’ve got everything I need in walking distance, shops, bars restaurants, loads of green space. I’d find it a little suffocating living slap bang in the city and don’t think i’d like being out in the countryside having to drive everywhere
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I have a weird contradiction of sometimes hating it being so bloody PEOPLEY out, yet other times I like the feeling of being completely anonymous in a throng.
 
InDie Hard said:
:david: AONBs are no more. They're now called "National Landscapes"
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Tell Google maps that. I had to check how to spell Cranborne.

'National Landscape' sounds a bit GRAND for it though - it sounds like you might expect the Badlands of South Dakota or the Grand Canyon.
 
I wouldn’t last in the countryside for more than a day or two.

I do love peace and quiet but I want it within a big city.
 
My home town is only 5,000 people and is on the very edge of the Cotswolds, but equally is right next to the M4 and you can be in Bath in like 30 minutes and Bristol in not much more than that. Line it up right with the train and London isn't much more than an hour away either. I feel like I get a pretty good mix of both worlds!
 
See I'd say the Isle of Wight as a whole IS overwhelmingly rural. Rachey just lives in a small town on it.
 
auretz said:
My home town is only 5,000 people and is on the very edge of the Cotswolds, but equally is right next to the M4 and you can be in Bath in like 30 minutes and Bristol in not much more than that. Line it up right with the train and London isn't much more than an hour away either. I feel like I get a pretty good mix of both worlds!
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That's intriguing trying to work out where it is. I'm guessing Malmesbury way...
 
I’m definitely a country girl. Have lived in both but as this point in my life I am happy to be away from the hustle and bustle and PEOPLE.
 
Queen of the Baby Jesus 👶 said:
A small countryside village with a town of 25k close by is just the perfect combination of civilization and wildness for me
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It's no secret that I adore the island, it definitely has it's downsides, like everywhere. But I couldn't really imagine living anywhere else.

I talk about living in Wales, but I worry because I don't drive and public transport outside of the big towns is awful. Whereas on the island I can go anywhere.
 
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