Fast paced city or slow quiet one

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This thread is about discussing what type of town or city you like or think has the best going for it for whatever reason that is important to you.
Here in Australia it's quite simple. We have 8 capital cities and many smaller regional centres.
Sydney and Melbourne are far and away the largest with 5 million people living here. They are referred as being world cities, vibrant financial capitals with high incomes and housing prices with lots going on. Brisbane is next with 2.8 million people, more laid back with a sub tropical climate and humidity. It's close to the Gold and Sunshine coastd. These 3 cities occupy the popular east Coast of Australia, which leaves Perth, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin and Hobart. Perth, known as the mining city ( and home to Tennis Only) is a beautiful city but very isolated from the rest of the country. The last 8 years have been tough for Perth with mining boom over and falling property prices. It's the 4th largest city by population and people think things might be turning around.
Now this brings us to Adelaide with the population of 1.3. It's the city that does things differently. It's been losing people to the east coast for job opportunities because Adelaide was a manufacturing city and this ended.In the 1960's. It was the 3rd largest city, now it's the 5th. The federal government is spending big money to develop new industries which looks like having an impact as unemployment has gone from worst to 4th. It's the city I want to showcase as a contrast to living in the bigger cities. It's known as the, "city of churches ", has beautiful beaches, mountains and wineries. It's also known as the 20 minute city, being compact and it's the slow city. Shops close early on weekdays and weekends and the running joke from the eastern states is, "it's 8.30 am in Sydney but it's 1985 in Adelaide". What is interesting here is that property is more than half the price of Sydney and people seem to have a life. It's trying to be carbon neutral but has a major blackout. Elon Musk has taken an interest in Adelaide building the worlds largest battery. Its they driest capital with a Mediterranean climate. I,ve read that people call this place, "the Athens of the South". It's just built the most modern and expensive hospital in the world. I've been there a few times and feel that this place could be a healthy place for people to move to.
For those of you who care to share, what town or city you think suits your life. Do you like a busy fast city or a slow one or is it about being connected to family. How important is the climate, proximity to beaches or other places of beauty.
 
I think in about 5 yrs I want a town with no people !!!
By moving to that town, everyone will probably move out and make your wish come true. Your life is a film and you are the director, but it seems that your spirit walked out of the movie theater somewhere in the first act. Make a better film.
 
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I think Copenhagen has the right balance. It has the attributes of a big city, but feels like a relaxed small town. Cities like NYC, Moscow, and even Paris are a little too loud, chaotic, and crowded for me
 
I think I am in the perfect setting for me. My town is about 45k and everything I need is within a mile or two from my house. I am not a fan of traffic, parking, crowds etc but I am not far from larger cities if there is a big event or something. I couldn't ask for anything more.
 
Far from the cess pool of crime
I can live my last few decades in peace
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I think I am in the perfect setting for me. My town is about 45k and everything I need is within a mile or two from my house. I am not a fan of traffic, parking, crowds etc but I am not far from larger cities if there is a big event or something. I couldn't ask for anything more.

And your safe from the big city violence that has destroyed almost every big city
 
I prefer a quiet city that is not too small and not too big or too crowded but with top class facilities and fabulous outdoor spaces/recreational areas.
 
I prefer a quiet city that is not too small and not too big or too crowded but with top class facilities and fabulous outdoor spaces/recreational areas.

My city ( I won’t name) is a 5th world hell hole and if you’re a drug addict or sociopath or a general low life then this is the city for you .

It’s like a city of every beavis and butthead character come to life in all its glory !!!
It’s like living in a giant 1950s mental institution in Indiana
 
My city ( I won’t name) is a 5th world hell hole and if you’re a drug addict or sociopath or a general low life then this is the city for you .

It’s like a city of every beavis and butthead character come to life in all its glory !!!
It’s like living in a giant 1950s mental institution in Indiana

Kids today in America would not know how to use a screw driver or hammer if you gave them one
Yet they can master any video game , snort a pound of anything or smoke a full size tree in a weekend or hack into a porno site
 
Back in my days I had chores to do when I was not playing tennis or NES
The kids today look so weak and unhealthy that if we get into a war ...we will get creamed
 
Kids today in America would not know how to use a screw driver or hammer if you gave them one

They probably cant even change a tire... :p

I like smaller towns. In college we only had like 10k people, no busses, taxis, homeless etc. Im in downtown orlando now, getting pretty sleazy like other big cities, wasnt always like this. I live in a nice area though, lots of tree's and no apartments. Can still get to downtown or the airport in 10mins.
 
I'll pick both! Bit undecided tonight I suppose. Where I live I get to experience both fast and slow. In the summer time around 5,000 souls reside here. In the winter I'd guess about 100,000 cram onto the island and surrounding area. I prefer the slower time of the year with the one exception that it becomes overly hot and humid. The winter time has the better weather and hence why the crowd shows up. I've come to learn the tourist crowds can be handled as I now know when the busy traffic times are and how the avoid them.
 
Sydney where I am is quite a fast paced city that spans almost 80km until it gets to the escarpment of the beautiful Blue Mountains. If you are out this way check it out. I'm about the middle ring and it's leafy and not far from here you can buy semi rural properties. Traffic can get pretty bad in peak hour. You can live near the harbour or along the northern beaches and city eastern suburb beaches but you will need big money to do so. Many people who want a beach lifestyle move out to the Central Coast, Newcastle, South Coast and Wollonging and still commute back in. For those who want a bit of English Countryside we have the Southern Highlands with places like Bowral, Moss Vale and Mittagong.
 
Both big and small towns are awesome (y)(y)(y) You want the best of everything, London, New York, Tokyo :love::love::love: every imaginable convenience and opportunity at your finger tips (y)(y) You want the time to reflect and enjoy it’s gotta be a small town :p:p:p Mid sized towns are a compromise on both so I don’t like them at all :censored::censored:
 
Where I live is one of the smaller cities in the Philippines, the Queen City in the South so it's called. The traffic here is worse than in the capital. Less population, but it's a smaller island with less developable land, with the city being mostly wedged between the coast and mountain ranges in the middle.

I would say I like living here, but I think I would actually prefer living in a slightly bigger city. I like cities, I like having everything nearby and plenty of public transportation options. I like that I can order food, and cities tend to have more developed infrastructure that I need, like a good internet connection. But this one is not developed enough I would say. The roads are jammed every day except Sunday, and the internet here is of poor quality, and I hardly get more than 5 mbps living in a condo, paying the same price for a 50 mbps connection elsewhere. Though thats probably more the fault of the condo than the city. Still, I might prefer a place with a more grid-like road pattern, so traffic doesn't get jammed to one winding road like here.
 
I grew up and currently work in a fast paced city Washington DC. I’m more than fine with the slower pace of living in the suburbs away from the city.
 
Actually this is a nice topic because I've been wondering about something for a while :p Leaving aside big or small cities, which city in North America would you say has the best downtown lifestyle? Walkability, public transport, thriving outdoor culture, arts and museums, and not muggers and stabbers around every block :unsure::unsure::unsure: I only know ones from Europe but America I get confused 8-B8-B And please don't say New York because people are rude as phuk there :sick::sick::sick:
 
I live in a quiet suburb outside Boston - 50 miles away. It has low housing prices along with access to the big city. Lately I've been thinking of getting a place closer to Boston - it might be better to have a place in a quiet area and a place in the city.
 
I lived right in the centre of London for years, and grew to hate it. We then lived in NYC for 9 months and immediately hated it. We then moved to a leafy suburb of London and grew to hate it.

We now live in the middle of nowhere, which is fantastic. It’s about 10 miles from Oxford, which is a pleasant city, if a little to touristy and studenty. It’s also only about 40 mins by train in to London.

In summary, I hate all cities. Give me a house in the middle of nowhere, with no neighbours and no traffic every day of the week. Heck, I don’t even mind the broadband speed being crappy.
 
I was in Boston today to see my oncologist. I got up at 2:30 AM, went to my office in Southern NH, took a shower, and then left for Boston at 4:30 and arrived at 5:30. There was a moderate amount of traffic, even at that time. I used to try leaving at 5:00 AM but there was much more traffic. That's kind of what I do when I need to go into Boston on a weekday - if weather or parking is a concern, then I might drive in the night before and stay at a hotel.

This morning, an article came out that a research study shows that Boston has the worst traffic in the country: https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2...report-says/wMNdRAlrEV7svwShY80NaJ/story.html

It's a small place with roads that were built 50 years ago and people are moving in like crazy. There are fewer trees than I remember growing up there and the main arteries are often clogged and/or dangerous. But the area where I grew up isn't too crazy with traffic. You get so little for your money in big cities. $600K to $700K for something that's a hundred years old and needs a fair amount of work. It would be a lot easier to rent a place when needed then to buy something and fix it up unless it were new construction. That's pretty hard to find where it isn't grossly overpriced. I do know of some nice condos, right next to a train station and a mile walk to services.
 
No city.

I want privacy. Animals. A garden I can sunbathe naked in if I feel like it. Flowers and herbs.
Easy parking. No traffic. Play as loud music as I want.

Freedom.

Do you care about roads?

One of my sisters bought some land in Vermont and asked me to help clear it. We drove in her AWD vehicle to get there and it was one of those areas where you can clear it and foliage will grow back pretty quickly. I think that she ended up selling the land - she was not really the type to develop property herself. There is a lot of land in the US but people like to live in cities for a lot of reasons; young people especially.
 
Do you care about roads?

One of my sisters bought some land in Vermont and asked me to help clear it. We drove in her AWD vehicle to get there and it was one of those areas where you can clear it and foliage will grow back pretty quickly. I think that she ended up selling the land - she was not really the type to develop property herself. There is a lot of land in the US but people like to live in cities for a lot of reasons; young people especially.
Of course I care about roads, but thats not a problem here. I also care about living not too far from the airport. I now live 1,5 hours drive to the capital and the airport. I live walking distance to the centre of a smaller town.

Im also not ready for clearing a land lol Thats too much. Its already nice places available around so no need for that. My fav place is probably my fam summer house by the coast where its also privacy. But since the ocean there and on days w little wind I cannot be too noisy as the ocean carry the sound very well all over the fjord.
 
I like to live somewhere that has a nice outlook, whether it be close to the beach or mountains, has a decent city with all the necessary infrastructure, not too small so that you can have some privacy and anonymity, but still have a village, cafe feel to it as well. Currently live in a city with over 5 million people and growing rapidly and you can feel the congestion with anything you do because the services and infrastructure hasn't caught up.
You have suburbs where they built primary schools in an area deigned for 300 students max and now these schools have 600 students, learning in portable demountibles with nowhere to play and when the parents arrive to drop or pick up the kids it's a nightmare.
Same with going to a major shopping centre where you have to fight for a parking spot or have a long wait to see a doctor.
When you live in a large city, yes you have more jobs and much higher earning capacity, but this is offset by very high costs including house prices, cost of services and things like tolls on freeways. Luckily I live and work pretty local and I'm close to semi rural areas. It's nice to get out of the car and walk in a park near a bush track.
Hopefully I will get the opportunity to move to a city with around 1 million people and then try something around 200k and see how things go.
 
I lived right in the centre of London for years, and grew to hate it. We then lived in NYC for 9 months and immediately hated it. We then moved to a leafy suburb of London and grew to hate it.

We now live in the middle of nowhere, which is fantastic. It’s about 10 miles from Oxford, which is a pleasant city, if a little to touristy and studenty. It’s also only about 40 mins by train in to London.

In summary, I hate all cities. Give me a house in the middle of nowhere, with no neighbours and no traffic every day of the week. Heck, I don’t even mind the broadband speed being crappy.
I just thought that it was impossible to be in the middle of nowhere and 10 miles from Oxford at the same time.
I thought that England had not any of those kind of places actually.
 
I hate crowds. I am very old at 22 years of age. No big cities for me. But sadly(very) life is definitely taking me to some big city.
While all my friends are excited about the new life ahead with the bars and the dominos and cars and whatnot but I just wish the days of childhood had never passed. There are a lot of things I love about being an adult but the baggage that comes with it is so not what I like.
I grew up in a small town which itself is not the same anymore with all the big buildings and malls opening there. But still I would love to live my life in my sweet little hometown. But we can't always get what we want.
 
I like to have the best of all worlds. A dynamic city with great job and education opportunities but with tons of greenery and reasonably affordable housing, with great weather for tennis all year, many places to drive to for fun but also reasonable public transport as a backup, and a bunch of cool sophisticated people like me.

But wait I already live in such a place!
 
I like having access to a big city while living away from it. I'm in the suburbs 20 miles north of the White House, which is nice and quiet, with pathways through forested areas and decent parks nearby, and I have scores of free public tennis courts within a few miles, plus a reasonably priced tennis club just a bit farther. Some traffic, but nothing terrible. But, it is nice being able to go downtown to one of the museums, and having access to a top notch hospital like Georgetown.

In 1980/81 I spent half a year in Buenos Aires, and went across the river to Montevideo for a long weekend about halfway through my time in BsAs. BsAs is nice, but Montevideo was so much more laid back than BsAs, I really would have liked my job to be there instead.
 
I like to have the best of all worlds. A dynamic city with great job and education opportunities but with tons of greenery and reasonably affordable housing, with great weather for tennis all year, many places to drive to for fun but also reasonable public transport as a backup, and a bunch of cool sophisticated people like me.

But wait I already live in such a place!


SHHH!!!

San Diego is great, but people have been catching on to this. I have been visiting Del Mar since my early twenties. In twenty-five years, it's gotten way more crowded and freeway traffic has become a problem. Del Mar is still pretty peaceful, and I try to walk to places when I'm in town.
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