Village VS City

We live in a small town now and really enjoy it. We are within walking distance of everything we need - grocery store, pharmacy, a small farmer's market on saturdays, and our favourite restaurant. We're also near the country, which is great for long bike rides. At home, it's very quiet outside (unless someone's mowing the lawn!)

It is a bit of a drive to get in to the bigger city for work but overall it's worth it.

Village or small town hands down. I have access to the more populated areas up north & west, but also open spaces a few miles south.

I was born in NYC and when I was 10 moved to Wilkes-Barre PA, a small city.

I definitely had a case of culture shock, I built forts in my back yard, we were flooded out of the house in 1972. I attended a good private school, and my NYC accelerated education gained me the privilege of skipping a grade (good intellectually and terrible socially).

So I lived in Rome (Italy) for a year, that was awesome, I was interested in archeology, I used to walk through ruins to an American school (St. Stephens School) memorizing the Iliad in Greek. I lived about two blocks from the Coliseum.

Then my family moved to Apple Tree Road in Harding PA (named after the President, who presided over the Tea Pot Dome scandal). It was fully rural. Meanwhile I was in school in Northfield MA, also a rural setting.

I took long walks in the woods, grew marajiuana in the abandoned Christmas tree farm, I am surprised I survived driving those mountain roads as a drunk teenager.

I went to college in Providence RI (city) and my family moved back to NYC. It was a nice town, good music clubs, the Brown campus is a self-contained community, more than Columbia for example, I biked around a lot and went to the beach - one named Moonstone was a nude beach.

After college I lived in Amsterdam Valley (106th Street NYC). In 1980 when I moved in, there was a drug/gang murder on my block about twice a month. I lived in an old tenement building, built in the very early 1900s - the building adjacent was abandoned and I was burglarized 2 or 3 times. I was 4 blocks from Central Park and I commuted by bicycle to 44th Street.

Since 2000 I have lived in Hudson County NJ, right across the river from NYC - in Jersey City, Bayonne, and North Bergen. The rents are cheaper, the pace of live is slower, the government is more corrupt.

Where I live now is small town-ish, kind of like a Central or South American town (I think more than 50% of the residents are Latino). I like the neighborhood, convenient shopping.

I can get to Times Square in NYC in 25 minutes by bus.

So I have the best of both - a safe quiet neighborhood and access to all of NYC...

Find myself a city to live in...

In city we get more facilities like hospital, Education, convene source but in city we face many problem like water and traffic jam and pollution but in village we get fresh air, water and many more things

Small town does give us the best of both worlds. The only thing I miss about being in a city is that there's always some shops open. In the small town we live in now, almost everything shuts at 5pm!

Nowadays people are moving from the peaceful hills, mountains, river and streams of the countryside to the busy world of traffic, streets and crowds. You will get more possibilities living in a city instead of village.

I live in(near a small town) on a farm. We're basically in the middle of nowhere but I like it. You have to drive a ways to get to a store but its nice to go biking or hiking in your own backyard. Though recently a lot of people have been moving in and I don't like that at all, it ruins our view of the mountains! Country is the best to me

I would like to live in the country, but having no car makes me live in the city....

Village is good for shelter city have a lot of pollution but in village we can find fresh wind and neat and cool water. We can not find it in city.

In my opinion, city life and village life has advantages and disadvantages. In city life, we get facilities for education, hospital, transportation etc. But in village, small chances of these facilities. Also in city life,we have to suffer electricity problem, water problem and pollution problem. But in village, we have to breathe good air and get clean water.

i live in a city and its quite headache living here cuz life is too much disturbed in city.

Many people who live like city because the cities have more services and more facilities."Develop" that is the main factor for like in city. Everyday cities are getting more advanced.

As for me it is better to live in a big city instead of living in a small town. You will have much more possibilities living in a city.

I like village life it's very cool. Not Rush a healty wind and fresh enviorment is only available only village

in NZ we run around in grass skirts and eat the tourists

I like city life because more more facilities are available in city but one thing city life is very expensive.

in NZ we run around in grass skirts and eat the tourists

Wow, everyone around here thinks I'm weird for doing that. Especially when it's snowing!

Is your new government planning to bring in an immigration policy for us grass-skirt wearing, tourist-eaters?

I like city and village.Life in big cities is very expensive but the city is place where good facilities. Then a lot people like in city.The another thing is the village life is much more healthier.

I like village life. The life in city is very expensive and people of city are very modern. Very difficulty to live with them.