Having lived in both. Country living for me is nothing short of Hell on Earth. I don’t begrudge those who enjoy that sort of thing, but I could never do it again. In small towns everyone is up in your business, there is never anything to do, DQ is not a real restaurant, everything is long drive, it’s lonely...and I could go on all day.
Glad you are a reeper in the city. Me II hate cities, I love waking up on this mountain and seeing the deer and sometimes a bear in my yard.I can shoot in my back yard and there is noone to bitch. I heat with wood and could live months with out power. Diverent strokes I quess
That’s just the difference between people. Some people, like you, love the excitement of the big city and all the services. Some people like seclusion far away from the bright city lights and the hustle and bustle. I live about 15 miles from any semi-major metro buildup almost in the country but not quite (there’s farm acreage outside my backyard). I like it that I don’t have close neighbors. The really big city is 140 miles away, and that’s alright by me.
I gotta ask....WHERE "in the country" did you live?? I grew up in "deep country" in Louisiana, and there was never a lack of things to do or a shortage of good restaurants within reasonable driving distance. With today's electronic access to virtually everything, the situation is even better.
And yes, I spent many years in a city of >100K population (Baton Rouge), and a couple of years in Houston.
I hope never to live in a city again.
Actually, rural and small town USA is disappearing, has been since WWII. But, now the tipping point has been passed and the small towns are no longer able to sustain themselves. The hub or focal point of small towns and surrounds rural areas has alway been the local school, the glue that held them together. But, sadly their head count has dropped so low it has become necessary to close many and consolidate where feasible. As a couple of others have stated, the young are fleeing just as soon as the are able as there is absolutely nothing to hold them, zero, unless your family is int farming and the farm/ranch is large enough to support multiple families. Even then, many of these have become absentee owners, living in the nearby metropolitan area and paying a manager to run the property. Most of the people remaining are old, run down, many lame, go into a grocery store and watch the transactions ahead of you, virtually all purchases paid with an EBT card. Sad, sad, sad......