City life vs. country life

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An animated update on Aesop's “The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse”.

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As someone who has lived both. Country is 10x better

spnks

i feel like cities are for young people who are excited to live life at any cost, while rural areas are more for the elderly, who can be calm and collected

sarahs

Living in the city is also more dense living environment typically and that means a smaller house for your money, which arguably would effect quality of life.

Max

NYC is nice because you have a lot to do, and it is literally sleepless so you can work at anytime of day and if you work at night most places pay you more to work the graveyard shift or if you are on call, and in NYC you dont have to worry about transportation cause you have lots of options, the city is a great place if you are a workaholic.

michellemarie

I'm an introvert and I hate living in small town. If you have niche interests, it's unlikely that'll you'll bump into someone you click with in a small town. Small towns have almost no performing arts theatres, museums, zoos, history landmarks, cultural events, quirky new restaurants or Cafe's opening up now and then for you to check out. Most entertainment in small towns are family cookouts and house parties. Public transportation is poor in small towns so you can't have a nightlife without a car. You'll be unsafe and alone by a lonely bus stop waiting a hour for the fews buses or taxis.

KromeDragon

In Canada you can have your cake and eat it too. All major cities in Canada are very accessible to the country. So if you live in a big city, you get the best of both worlds. But if you live in the country you only have the benefits of the country.

blueskyflips

2:02 is when she says she fells safe in the city. She also finds rat poison and rat trap peanut butter to be tasty

daleycloneforce

Please consider living a country life can be extremely lonely and boring especially alone :(

kts

I’m from a small town and I always wonder why would my parents spend their whole life here. I don’t like it at all. Barely any entertainment

kennylo

New York is a bit of a cherry picked example because it has a better murder rate than most cities. Use Chicago or LA as an example and the murder rate won't look so good. Also, it feels disingenuous to just include the city proper because often, crime spills over into the surrounding area. It isn't really LA proper, it's LA county. Legally they may be separate but we treat a bunch of cities in close proximity as effectively one large city.

aaronbrown

i’ve always lived in rural areas and i have always hated it, whenever i go to cities i love it so i be in the city fr

sanityslayer

Well if you are a single guy, with no family or car countryside life is not realistic... I'm a city person, however I dont like Megapolices either. I like nice towns 30k-450k...

ruslanbollaev

If you think people are rude and crass in the city, just wait until you find out how some people in the country will treat you. They're literally just too stupid to understand the idea of treating people how they themselves want to be treated.

jordan

Another thing to mention is that in rural areas the dating pool is abysmal, ESPECIALLY for anyone who has niche dating preferences like for example LGBT, gay and trans people often have nobody to date, or just can't date locally. The low wages in rural areas often leave people trapped there, because they don't make big city money, or even suburbanite wages, they can't afford to move sometimes. And they can't always find jobs as specialists which pay more.

A lot of things also kinda just depend, commute times can be less in cities or more. If you live right in the downtown area and you work there, its cheap, if you live in an exurb or suburb, then enjoy your 40 minute drive. Short commute times are definitly NOT guaranteed for people in rural areas either. Those are really just averages. Really most types of people can make either one "work" but for some high costs, or crowds won't be worth it, in the case of cities and the social alienation, and for others the need to drive long distances to go to social gatherings or do anything fun isn't going to be worth it.

I believe that most people can be accomodated by cities if the urban planning is good and the location meets their needs. Only problem is, a lot of cities are planned very poorly, especially in america. Rural areas also mean you'll have a hard time finding anyone with niche interests. To some people one represents freedom and the other is some hamster wheel or sensory deprivation chamber, but really. You're not free no matter which one you pick. You just have a set of preferences.

shittymemelover