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> I guess the grass isn’t necessarily greener in either direction, the challenges and issues are just different. This nails it. > I’ll be honest I don’t reall

> I guess the grass isn’t necessarily greener in either direction, the challenges and issues are just different. This nails it. > I’ll be honest I don’t really get why rural life appeals to those in the city. There may be multiple reasons, to each their own. As a city-dweller since I was kid, the biggest issue, and the one that has me contemplate rural(-er) living, is the constant noise. The housing market being what it is, it's very hard to find well-insulated apartments. In France, there have been new construction regulations for noise insulation, but most of the apartments in Paris were built before that. You can more or less easily get an apartment that doesn't face a major road (or any road at all). But you can never get an apartment with no neighbors (unless you're extremely rich, which isn't my, nor most people's case).

pard68 4y ago
Agreed, like with virtually everything it is a tradeoff. I did not like the loud, fast cars five feet from our door, the drugs, the shootings (only twice but it was enough for me to move), and the hectic pace, lots of strangers. I still love the city we lived in and if I had to be in a city that's the one. I was willing to trade city problems for the rural problems. Living rurally on over a 100 acres, I am free to do a not that was not even possible on our 1/4 acre not in the city. I fix up old tractors and trucks in my free time with my sons. This summer I plan to get a sawmill and try my hand at building historical structures (log cabins, old style pole barns, etc.).