Town or Country - which do you prefer?

[Glow worm]

Or are you able to enjoy both albeit in different ways?

 

[Lisa21]

The countryside or seaside for me, every time

 

[darkstar]

Was bought up in the countryside and intend to go straight back after uni, i enjoy living in a city but i often find myself wanting to get out to the sticks!

 

[ColinJ]

I'm lucky because I live in a small town in the countryside...

If I want to be in the countryside it is less than 15 minutes away on foot, or 10 minutes by bike!

So for me, it is town and country - big cities, no thanks!

 

[gaz]

London only for me.. when i went to uni, it was in a city with less population than the 'town' i live in. and i just found it boring. next to nothing to do, i love the hustle and bustle of london and don't think i could go anywhere else.

 

[brokenbetty]

Or are you able to enjoy both albeit in different ways?

The country is nice to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. The lifestyle is too car-centric for me.

Also, most of the things I really value are only viable if you've got a great big clump of people around. The smaller the local market gets, the less anything other than mainstream is catered for.

I actually feel much safer going out in London than I do in small country towns.

 

[ComedyPilot]

This thread is nothing without a poll.

 

[accountantpete]

It's lovely and peaceful round here

 

[wafflycat]

I live in the countryside, a few miles from a couple of market towns and it suits me fine. I've lived in small town/city/village at various points in my life, and whilst a city is great if you're young,free & single, they are crap for bringing up kids. Out here in the sticks has been great for bringing up a family - the kids have far more freedom when they are young than when in a city environment.

 

[jimboalee]

City. Every time.

BIG shops. Four multiscreen cinemas to choose from.

Bike free on train.
Cycling faster than buses.

Five LBS to choose from.
Four cycling clubs within cycling distance.

Multitude of ethnic restaurants.

BIG supermarkets within a short walk.




Countryside.... Too quiet.


Oh, and my kids. They can look after themselves if necessary.

 

[darkstar]

City. Every time.

BIG shops. Four multiscreen cinemas to choose from.

Bike free on train.
Cycling faster than buses.

Five LBS to choose from.
Four cycling clubs within cycling distance.

Multitude of ethnic restaurants.

BIG supermarkets within a short walk.


Countryside.... Too quiet.

Hmmm if the countryside is too quiet, then what about hearing everyone staggering back at 4am past your window when you need to wake up at 7? Its fine when your the one staggering back, just not when your trying to sleep!
I live in a small village, the local pub is the focal point of the community, you know everyone and get along with them, Play for the cricket team, go to the pub afterwards etc
As for facilities, we are a 10 minute drive away from the nearest town, with 2 cinemas, 7 supermarkets, and as for restaurants there an indian and chinese takeaway as well as fish and chips a 5 minute drive away (or 8 minute cycle_
Whilst at uni in a city, it is useful to be able to just pop out and walk to the supermarket, but there have been countless burglaries around the area etc t home if we hear a police siren we go to the window to check it out as we probably know the person responsible!
You also have quite country roads at you disposal
Each to their own though i suppose, all about personal preference

 

[Glow worm]

This thread is nothing without a poll.

I'd hate to disappoint!

 

[Glow worm]

Each to their own though i suppose, all about personal preference [/QUOTE]

It was perhaps a bit of a simplistic question (but then I am a bit simple!). There's good and bad in both I guess, but for me, it has to be countryside every time.

I very occasionally have to go to London for work, and by the time I get back on my train home, I always find myself thinking, blimey what was that all about?! It's just too big and fast for me. Some folk find all that exciting but it's just a bit too claustrophobic for me and on the journey home, that first bit of pasture after the suburbs finish somehere near Potters Bar, is always good to see.

My village (Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambs) is no rural idyll, but it is pretty quiet and we know everyone on our street. I haven't locked my car in 5 years. It's also a nice mixed community in that it's not all middle class commuters like you get in Surrey etc- lots of folk whose families go back generations still here. Cracking local boozer and shop. NCN route 51 passes within 50 yards of my house and it's a largely off road 10 miler into Cambridge or hourly bus. So on that score we're dead lucky here and can enjoy the town too.

 

[rich p]

I'd hate to disappoint!

That's not a Pole, it's a Croat

 

[ComedyPilot]

That's not a Pole, it's a Croat

I thought that too.