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Whenever I talk to my friends from rural areas of the provinces, it becomes clear they just prefer the way they used to live as a child. I lived my entire life
by kredd 3y ago
Whenever I talk to my friends from rural areas of the provinces, it becomes clear they just prefer the way they used to live as a child. I lived my entire life in different cities and can’t imagine myself driving for a simple grocery run.
Other thing is, a lot of people who move into a city later in life don’t bother taking advantage of city life and say how much they hate it. I’ve heard time and time again from my friends how “they feel trapped in an apartment”, but they don’t go out for walks or city adventures.
Personally, when I go into rural sides of the countries, I feel extremely trapped and crave some sights of people. It doesn’t have to be crowded, but there’s a beauty of an okay-ishly functioning city going through it’s morning routine.
- GloomyBoots 3y agoIn rural America, we used to have more very small towns that were actual towns, with sidewalks, main streets, grocery stores, cafés, and cinemas. One of the places I lived used to be one, and I never would have known if the old folks wouldn’t randomly bring up the old bowling alley or something, and when I had no idea what they were talking about they would go on to explain that it used to be in some empty field maybe a quarter mile from my house. Most shocking one was when I was with someone who mentioned a town I’d never heard of. She said oh, it used to be just up the highway and brought me there. We went into a wooded area in the middle of a farm, and there were the remnants of wooden walkways everywhere (low elevation and frequent flooding). She showed me where the train station and the hotel had been, talked about the different shops and the amusement park that was owned by the local dentist. But that was all a long time ago. Now that whole area which used to contain multiple such communities is just farmland, loose clusters of houses, a plant, a gas station, and five of the ugliest churches you’ve ever laid eyes on. If you drive for half an hour you can go to Walmart or Taco Bell in the “small city” that used to be an actual small city.
- throwawa14223 3y agoI'm one of those who hates city life, but I don't want to do any of those things you list as advantages of city life, they are undesirable to me.