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Always been curious about this. I know countries where members live but nothing more than that.

How urban is it where y'all live? And where do you PREFER? Do you have plans to change? What are you reasons for staying/changing?

Also, what's your favorite place you've ever lived?
 
I live in a very urban area. I know it sounds weird but I love a noisy neighborhood with shit going on. And I love the conveniences of the city. I want a supermarket in my BACK YARD if I could.
 
Suburbia, technically a historic town gobbled up by the city, so there's a town centre about 5 minutes walk with plenty of stuff going on.

I have a city centre 5 minutes cycle in one direction, and open countryside 5 minutes cycle in the other. Works for me.
 
A bit of both
Tuesday-Thursday in a suburb*
Friday-Monday in an island
Occasionally in a village

*suburbs here border each other around the two cities of Athens and Piraeus, all together suburbs and cities make up the Athens metropolitan area, despite being an administrative separation each suburb has its own commercial hub but shares transport with the rest
 
Marina Salty said:
*suburbs here border each other around the two cities of Athens and Piraeus, all together suburbs and cities make up the Athens metropolitan area, despite being an administrative separation each suburb has its own commercial hub but shares transport with the rest
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I am here for this Hellenic administrative teach-in.
 
I live in a small town in the countryside, but less than 10 minutes from the M4 so not really 'rural' in the traditional sense. Sometimes I can be in central Bristol quicker than my friends who live in the outskirts of Bristol :D
 
I cannot imagine living anywhere other than a big city. I’m surrounded by people who have got “tired” of it, but I can’t relate.

My mum spent 18 years living down on the south coast and when she got divorced, fought tooth and nail to get back to London. She recently had a bit of a mental blip where she wanted to move out and back near her sister. My brother and I have convinced her to stay as she’d be so bored moving there (plus getting older, being 10 minutes away from multiple younger friends and family is bloody useful)… she’s currently down there for a week dog sitting and is apparently already bored.
 
I live in a suburban area but there's quite a bit of countryside around us because there are mineworkings everywhere. The shafts were capped off and most of them are now little parks in the middle of housing estates (like the one behind my house). Yeah, my house might slide into a sinkhole one day but I like living dangerously.

My house originally belonged to the Lancashire Electric Power Company and was built for miners so there's all kinds of weird additions to the deeds and paperwork. I'm supposed to receive one pound and one shilling rent every 1st January for a cable that runs under my property although the Lancashire Electric Power Company no longer exists so I've never seen a bloody penny!
 
Where I live is a bit of a contradiction. It's a housing estate built in the 90s and 00s on the site of old paper mill and factories along the river, separated from the fringes of the city/suburbia on the other side of that river, and a small post WWII council estate on my side by a wood and a hill. It does have a very leafy suburban feel (and it's all people mowing their lawns and washing their cars every Sunday morning), but it's only around 2.5 miles from the city centre. And I've got a nature reserve on one side of the river just a few hundred metres away, and a river park on the other, both of which feel like being in the countryside.

So I identify as urban(e), but it feels a little more complicated than that.
 
lolly said:
Where I live is a bit of a contradiction. It's a housing estate built in the 90s and 00s on the site of old paper mill and factories along the river, separated from the fringes of the city/suburbia on the other side of that river, and a small post WWII council estate on my side by a wood and a hill. It does have a very leafy suburban feel (and it's all people mowing their lawns and washing their cars every Sunday morning), but it's only around 2.5 miles from the city centre. And I've got a nature reserve on one side of the river just a few hundred metres away, and a river park on the other, both of which feel like being in the countryside.

So I identify as urban(e), but it feels a little more complicated than that.
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Sounds IDEAL.
 
Has anyone here LEFT the city? Because I keep hearing from research that the world is becoming more urbanized but there's always a counter movement to that.
 
KindaCool said:
Has anyone here LEFT the city? Because I keep hearing from research that the world is becoming more urbanized but there's always a counter movement to that.
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Only during the two covid years, it was incredible but not sure it counts as leaving the city for good.

Now there's the digital nomads thing going for jobs that working remote is the norm.
 
I could live in the Alps quite happily I think but I do NOT see myself ever living in the SUBURBS
 
AGinAg (39) said:
Right next to the city centre, although it's all residential.
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I will expand, as others have and who doesn't like talking about their own shit.

I live in a Victorian terrace street, one of many in the area. There were more, but a big old dual carriage way knocked several of them down in the 1980s. As a result, I live just on the other side of the dual carriage way, which you can pretty much consider, the end of the city centre

Although with underpasses, I'm only 2-3 minutes from the town/ city centre. To the south of us is pure residential, aside from the odd retail or business estate. We're very close to a lovely tree lined area, where all the posh folk live, which is lovely. But I wouldn't call it a suburb per se.

As neither of us currently drive, I don't see that changing, as we're near so much, but also an abundance of transport links.

Fun fact, our road is the site of a Roman soldier burial ground. Aside from that it's the least notable road in the world. Even our last road was hit in the blitz.
 
Suburbs, although only 6 miles from a major city so I feel I've got the best of both. I did city living for 5 years in my 20s and it really wasn't for me. We have beaches and some semi-rural parts here, so I do feel there's always something to do or somewhere to go.
 
Even though I can see manchesters skyscrapers from my front door and be in the city centre in 15 mins in a tram I am a 5-10 minute bike ride away from the countryside. Im 15 mins in a cab from an international airport and I can be in central london in less that 2 and a half hours. In terms of being connected, I am perfectly placed and I love it. We're surrounded by amazing bars and restaurants and my little town centre is getting increasingly better served, were an artisan butchers away from middle class perfection.
 
I grew up in the country living above a pub in Donegal, Ireland and moved from there to England when I was 19. I lived in London first of all and then Manchester and then moved to Tenerife for around a year. I moved with my first husband to Glasgow, and then to a very secluded former renovated farmhouse with no neighbours outside a small town in Perthshire, Scotland that we renovated extensively and I brought up my kids there. I then had a yearning to go full circle back to Donegal, Ireland where the majority of my family have always stayed which is kind of where I am at now with intermittent trips back to Scotland in between travelling.

I love the countryside but also enjoy the madness of the cities for regular visits. At my age now and at my stage in life I am just happy to be close to my Mum, and siblings who I haven’t lived near in over 30 years, and to head back to a quiet life and familiarity when everything gets too much. It’s a fabulous comfort blanket and is working swimmingly for me right now. If that will be forever? WHO KNOWS?
 
Foot of the alps, it's a 5,000 people village - but an airport/city of 150,000 people within 10 miles. So it's basically country-side but city in biking/driving distance.
 
big ron said:
Even though I can see manchesters skyscrapers from my front door and be in the city centre in 15 mins in a tram I am a 5-10 minute bike ride away from the countryside. Im 15 mins in a cab from an international airport and I can be in central london in less that 2 and a half hours. In terms of being connected, I am perfectly placed and I love it. We're surrounded by amazing bars and restaurants and my little town centre is getting increasingly better served, were an artisan butchers away from middle class perfection.
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I can’t think of somewhere where you can’t see the Manchester/Deansgate skyline tbh!
 
I grew up in a tiny village that had no shop even, and no bus, just a stables, farms. a few crescents. the field next to our garden usually had sheep or cows in it. Manchester was a 35 minute drive... and the scenery is kinda gorgeous for Cheshire standards. but looking back I think this (somewhat) secluded village life actually held me back as a teenager and if I have kids I would love to raise them in a city. the schools in Amsterdam are so centrally located, often in these big beautiful period buildings with cute little playgrounds in front. I kinda wish I'd had THAT EXPERIENCE at primary school in the city, and maybe matured quicker.

but also, maybe that's why I moved around and chose to make a life in another country, etc? it could be swings and roundabouts
 
big ron said:
We're surrounded by amazing bars and restaurants and my little town centre is getting increasingly better served, were an artisan butchers away from middle class perfection.
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I LOVE this and can picture it. are there loads of natural wine shops yet?
 
I like living in a city. Good public transport, lots to do and see, many weird and wonderful people. Sometimes too many weird and wonderful people. Sometimes they're just weird.

I like to traipse about in the countryside and visit the goats and cows and llamas, but when the weather turns it makes me want to die.
 
Nothing depresses me more than the city in the rain. At least grey and by the fields and sea is still nice and quaint.
 
THE BURBS

Yes Liverpool can look like this

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Marina Salty said:
A bit of both
Tuesday-Thursday in a suburb*
Friday-Monday in an island
Occasionally in a village

*suburbs here border each other around the two cities of Athens and Piraeus, all together suburbs and cities make up the Athens metropolitan area, despite being an administrative separation each suburb has its own commercial hub but shares transport with the rest
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I'd like this life.
 
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