Sorry, but I prefer suburbia over everything else, and I can't stand to live in a city. I like wide-open spaces, a lack of noise, and cheap spacious housing. C

Sorry, but I prefer suburbia over everything else, and I can't stand to live in a city. I like wide-open spaces, a lack of noise, and cheap spacious housing. Cities just make me claustrophobic, and I can't stand it. I absolutely cannot tolerate having anyone else live above or below me, and noise drives me up the wall like nothing else. I've got a big-ass house for considerably less than $1 per square foot per month, I have no noise, and I like the aesthetics of the area around me. Also, the crime rate is very low, and I don't have homeless people constantly demanding I give them money and then shouting epithets at me when they find out I don't carry cash (that happened multiple times a day back when I used to work downtown; it hasn't happened even once since I started working in the suburbs again). All in all, cities are nice places to play tourist and visit in small doses, but I'd rather live in the suburbs. Edit: I'll also add that I'm openly LGBT, and I've heard horror stories from other LGBT people, even those who live in very liberal cities, about some of the things that get shouted at them on the street in urban environments. Even in a liberal place like Boston, you're going to have punks shouting slurs at you on the street if you're openly LGBT, yet I live in suburban Texas and nobody has shouted a single homophobic or transphobic epithet at me in the suburbs. Everyone is polite and friendly to me. I feel safe here. I don't care if it's just an act and they're just being polite to my face because they're taught to be polite to everyone even though they're going to talk about me behind my back; just as long as I don't have to hear the abuse, I'm fine.