I’m going with a solid, “neither!” answer for this one.
I always say that I’m not a city mouse or a country mouse; I’m a suburb mouse.
Reasons I don’t like cities:
- too few trees
- not enough green
- too few parking lots
- too many people/crowds
- too much noise
Reasons I don’t love the country:
- I don’t want to be so isolated from people
- too long of a drive to get to stores/church, etc.
- super rural areas sometimes feel depressing and lonely to me
Hmm. I think I have stronger negative feelings about the city than the country.
Regardless, suburbia is what it’s at for me.
Suburbia has:
- trees
- some open spaces
- parking lots. Always parking lots! I never have to parallel park!
- easy access to stores/churches/community/medical care
- some people, but not too many
- some noise, but not tons
It’s just overall a nice in between for me.
I’m happy to visit the city or the country, but the suburbs are where I like to live.
Amen!
I too find suburbia just about right. My reasons mirror yours. I dislike the volume of traffic of suburbia but overall I’m happy to be living there.
I lean towards country, but I need to be within 20 minutes of civilization, I.e. grocery stores. I’d be all country if weather was no challenge though.
Yes. I love having grocery stores close by!
Country. I couldn’t even live in “our” village of 750 people. We’re 5 miles from gas/interstate, 11 from church, 12 from groceries and school, 20 from Walmart, 36 from Target. The roads are easy. It’s good. And I don’t have to close the shades, so there’s that.
Country! I’m a farm-raised daughter and wife. We are surrounded by some of the best farm ground around. But we are very close to our small hometown and 10 minutes from the nearest Walmart in the next bigger city. 🙂 We do like to visit the big cities though.
I live in a small town (which is technically a city) as opposed to a suburb since there is no large metro area nearby unless you drive a good solid hour.
Both small towns and suburbs get a really bad rep from a lot of people for being somehow void of culture and that we all need to have everything right on top of us at all times. While yeah, it’s frustrating sometimes seeing old college friends post on Facebook about the trendy spot they went to in the big city or finding out that we won’t be getting a live show in our town and even going to IKEA is an event for us.
That said, most of the time my friends are just working, chilling in their apartments watching Netflix or playing video games.
I’d say the big benefit of being where I am is that I can get anything I immediately need (living in the sticks and being 20+ minutes from the grocery store was rough but doable) and anything otherwise can be ordered online or we can drive to the city for and I can still have the house with a yard and people close but not too close.
YES! I am stuck inbetween too for the very same reasons. Our church is in the City though so for our retirement, my husband dreams of an apartment in the city for the weekend to live in and a house in the country for those REAL quiet days during the week. I don’t know what God has in store because I do love to be social and not bored either! Hey, why not a house in each place?! lol
Can you guess my answer? 🙂 We are a little more “country” than I could have ever imagined here, however. I didn’t even know “country” like this still existed in modern America. I suppose most people don’t. Our nearest (small) grocery store is 60 miles. Nearest Walmart is 90 miles. Nearest library also 90 miles. Nearest Target is I think 130 miles. The only things that bug me are the grocery store and library, though. Online shopping has been an incredible game-changer in places like this.
I love the IDEA of both country and city but I’m probably a suburban at heart — a little of both