Town or Country - which do you prefer?

[Fnaar]

Big cities are the business when you're young, free and single. Our 3 kids were born in London. Now we live in a small Northumberland town... countryside is 5 mins walk away. I love it I was brought up on the edge of a town, so always been near countryside. Lived in London for a long time as a young fella, though, and I love that to bits too.

 

[darkstar]

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

The ref's called Graham Poll though

 

[Glow worm]

The ref's called Graham Poll though

Top marks darkstar- not everyone's favourite ref and clearly not as well known as I imagined

 

[PaulB]

Tountry every time for me!

In fact....
Sometimes I live in the country,
Sometimes I live in the town,
Sometimes I take a great notion,
To jump in the river and drown.

 

[Dayvo]

Depends on which town and which location of the countrytside!

The last two places I've lived in are two capital cities - Stockholm and Oslo.

Fortunately with small populations and no urban sprawl, the ride from city centre to countryside is no time at all, and even then, there are parks, lakes, forests and fields within the city limits!

So, my towns (cities) are virtually in the countryside, anyway - the best of both worlds.

 

[Davidc]

I were brung up on the outskirts of ye geat big city (Lonnun) after a few (4) years in a likkle city (Brisl) but with relativ's in't country (daren't do the same for that) an likkle city'v Exder who got visit'd kwite orfen.

I've a place in me 'art fer both.

Now I lives in a country town, easy drive to two cities (Exder 'n Brizl) with me mum livin' near to t' bigun - Lonnun.

Both have their good points and bad points. Don't knock either, enjoy both.

And I'll be sober in the morning (with apologies to Winston Churchill).

 

[Cubist]

'nuff said.

 

[addictfreak]

Country for me everytime, particularly Lakes and Mountains, it makes me

My pet hate is the being on the beach, not too sure why. Rugged coastline (cliffs etc) I dont have a problem with.

 

[chap]

I'm more of a small town kind of man who also loves the city. Which is why I love London.

 

[amnesia]

I live in Bournemouth and so near the sea, which is nice.
But, given the choice, I would live in the countryside in a heartbeat. We have a couple of horses and I would love to own somewhere with a bit of land and stables so that we could be with them all the time.

Clean air / loads of MTBing beats the town any day of the week IMHO.

 

[rich p]

I prefer being on the edge of a not too big town with the facilities of rural and urban life life both easily available with the coast about 2 miles away.

 

[Dayvo]

I prefer being on the edge of a not too big town with the facilities of rural and urban life life both easily available with the coast about 2 miles away.

What's that then; Sydney? Or Brighton?

 

[Kirstie]

I was brought up in the countryside and live there now. However I also lived in Birmingham for 15 years and while it was a great place to go to uni/be single/ have loads of friends in, eventually I just ended up feeling trapped. When most of my friends moved away to other jobs/relationships I ended up leaving too.

The downsides of where I live now are that I need to drive to get to most places, even if those places are train stations for longer distance travel. I cycle most of those routes now, but still resent the amount of driving I do, and its associated cost. I also have a long commute to work, but sometimes I cycle/train it rather than drive. The upsides are that I live in the lanes and so cycling is dead easy to do outside of work hours, and if i work from home I get a lunchtime spin in as well. We also have a great local pub and lots of local activities to get involved in.

One of the other health benefits is that we are so far away from take aways etc that we rarely indulge. In Brum we were 90 paces from the nearest curry house and 100 from the chippy...

I think I would go mad in a city...

 

[rh100]

Always lived in the city, would love to live in a seaside town (so long as it wasn't inbred). Trouble is, I would miss the curry house too much, they are never the same in small towns.

 

[totallyfixed]

If it's about riding your bike it has to be countryside, where's the fun in stopping every few hundred metres or less for traffic lights and breathing in those lovely exhaust emissions.
Did a 76 mile ride yesterday and probably passed by less than 20 cars in total - bliss.
Glow Worm, know your village well, used to live your side of Bottisham.