No.6737
I used to live about an hour away from the city. It's been about a year in the city now… There's pretty much no reason to leave - everything is here.
It's pretty comfy. Public Transport is basically always available instantly. Food variety is good too. I'd definitely miss it if I left.
No.6739
>>6737lived most of my life in the capital, big noisy crowded polluted and most of all dangerous. Often when walking down the street, if I were walking a few steps behind somebody, they'd usually glance over their shoulder, I did too, everybody does that there.
Of course, there are many things I do like about the city, mostly having a lot of thi gd within reach, living in rural areas there are many common things people haven't probably even heard about in their lives. But it's much more quiet here, even if I have the road half a mile away and hear huge trucks step their breaks down the slope making terible noise, even this far away.
But I don't really like people, I have to interact less with them but when I do, it's like they actually expect one to interact more than they do in the city where everybody is happy to be let go on about their business, I guess that's a very citadine trait I've developed myself. But it's quiet and I love the sound and the smell of nature. Ont the other hand I don't either go out much because there's nowhere to go.
On the end, I'm happy being here and not in the city but I like them cities too.
No.6742
I used to live in the city and will do again soon, it was great having all this stuff that was nearby including a pretty nice sushi bar about 10 minutes from my apartment.
But at the same time shit is expensive, I was living in a flat share but on near to minimum wage so I often couldn't really take advantage of what was around me.
I am in a better position now and I'm primed to move back again.
No.6747
I was born, raised and still live in a large-ish industrial city. Like, you don't wanna open your windows during the day type of industrial. It's disgusting. I've been to some other cities, small towns, and the capital. Every of this choices is good, compared to this stupid giant machinery complex of a city.
I'm moving to the capital this spring. This place kills people. Cancer caused by pollution, suicide, alcoholism, stress-related illnesses, I've seen it all in my family, peers, colleagues. I'm just tired and I don't want to end here like this.
I'm sorry there's no comf in the post.
No.6750
I live in a city, always have done. Due to expected quality of life would only picture myself outside of a city if I have enough resources to make up for the inconveniences, here the difference between the main cities and anything else is very stark in terms of quality of life, unfortunately.
No.6757
I live in a small town, nothing really goes on here.
There have been times where i visited the city which is 2 hours away from here.
Always for doctor appointments though.
I don't really got any reason to go there often and i like not being bothered at all here.
No.6760
>>6758Hell yeah South Bay here as well. I feel like it’s the perfect central location to all the good stuff in the area.
No.6762
>>6760It really is especially with how many restaurants are out here and how nicer people are compared to other areas. I feel pretty safe going on night walks so that's also a plus.
No.6767
>>6739City life definitely imprints on you. It's nice to be so close to everything and yet so far away from everyone.
>>6747Your decision to move is comfy 🍣
I used to live in a suburban town, things were good… that might be nostalgia? I recently met some new people who were alright. It's nice to know were not alone out here. I hope to meet more alright people this year :)
The anime for pic related manga comes out on the 9th! It looks good!
No.6787
>>6736I've always lived in a big city. Everyday I see more and more homeless people in the street.
If I have to go somewhere, I have to either take the subway where we're all compressed like sardines or I walk and I have to constantly hear honking cars and construction noises. It doesn't help that the population density is so high here.
No.6880
>>6736I live in a village and I would never trade. Comfy house, comfy garden, comfy people. Beautiful houses with beautiful scenery. I live in a town (3rd largest) during weekdays cuz of uni and I absolutely hate it.
No.6882
I live in the suburbs area of a small town, but right now I'm in a big city to study… at least the developed parts of it (because there's an overly too undeveloped parts of the city I'm too sad to describe).
There's a lot of things here, like nice restaurants, easy transportation access, and fancy malls, but people here are very consumerist. Also, they really like Instagram a lot for some reason. Almost everyone asks me about my Instagram handle (after a talk, when applying to events, etc.), except I, a country bumpkin, don't have it.
Would I trade my suburbian life to this big city? No, thanks. I don't think I fit the city lifestyle.
No.6913
everybody seems to be down on the fact that big cities feel lonely, but I love that! I want to live in a high apartment where I can just watch the world go by - all these people…I can just be myself because no-one cares.
That said I love nature and the outdoors, so maybe when I'm older I'll settle down somewhere idyllic and rural
No.6950
I live 40-60 minutes outside of the city, but rarely have a reason to go there. I think I'd prefer living somewhere where like that where everything is so much closer together and I wouldn't need a car to do everything.
my hometown can be cozy, particularly in the autumn and spring. but I've grown weary of being in the same place for so long
No.6952
>>6913I, aclually, love this aspect of city life. This and accessibility of stuff and people and work. But there's nothing else worthwhile.
No.6959
I live in the suburbs outside the city. It's a 10-15 minute drive to the city. As a kid I only went downtown to visit my cousin or for some event the city was having (they had the science museum with a bunch of cool stuff, Chinese new years, and food truck events). The city is kind of a mess because it's getting a 'rich people' boom, or how ever you would say it. The city's major railway is still being built along with a hundred other random things. it's not really comfy, but sleek, modern, and hip. It's not bad, but the place is getting some of it's soul sucked out by modernization.
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No.6960
I live in a big city but it's extremely spread out and not very 'urban' for most of it. I don't really like that, but even though the public transit isn't good because of that it's still livable (1 hr commute to my work about 10 miles away). I honestly don't like most of the city very much, because most of the living spaces have that suburban, exclusive, alien feel or I wouldn't fit in. Anywhere with character is super poor or totally unaffordable, and there's unofficial but real segregation. Most places that are 'nice' feel fake and corporate. But there are still some good old neighborhoods, nice libraries and stuff, and at least the areas i live are very international, and you can find any kind of thing or person somewhere.
I wouldn't mind living in a small city or town if I knew i had friends there, but I'd be scared to move out and hope it worked out socially - that's the most important factor for me. I'm not really interested in living either in the suburbs or way out in the country, though… I want to be able to walk to things.
No.10033
>>10032What was the charge?
No.10038
>>10037Careful, I know someone who got eighteen months in the clinker for that.
No.10068
I live in a lake town by a big college campus that's its own mini city.. I lived on the campus for years and it was so hectic and crazy that I'm glad to be surrounded by just old people and quiet grad students now. Also being surrounded by nature but still having stores around is nice.
No.10218
It's comfy enough I guess. Probably less so than other cities. It was worth it until corona hit, but now the main perk of being in the city is lost. That being the ability to meet people in environments where I can choose to leave and 'reroll' by going next week, where different people will come. I hate having to deal with people I dislike on a regular basis because they happen to hang out in the same places. Before the virus I could just leave and go somewhere else, or go back another time. Nowadays, it's not an option and my social life has suffered for it.
No.10229
>>10220I like living near a big city, but because I'm such a hermit and loner, there's not much to do around there. I just like the idea of the city. When I go, I just end up walking around for a couple hours and come back home disappointed.
I'd like to frequent cozy coffee shops and the like, but it's just a bit awkward alone, not to mention way less satisfying.
No.10237
I live in a smallish suburban American town. It's quiet, it's peaceful, and the cost of living is cheap enough for me to save up money.
But god, is it boring. There's nothing to do here, unless your idea of fun is to go eat at $CHAIN_RESTAURANT or take a walk in the park (read: series of baseball/soccer fields for the kids) or something. It's hard to make friends, too, because all the people I could envision myself being friends with all left for the big cities by the time they were out of college.
No.10244
>>10229Do you wanna go on frendates with me to your city?
We can explore the city together and go to cozy cafes together so you won't be alone! but I'd only order ice cream or a milkshake or something else that's mostly sugar that they might have available because I'm no good with coffee…
No.10582
I don't find my city very comfy. It's a small one (around 80,000 people) but it's spread out a lot so nothing is within walking distance and I have too many painful memories here. I've lived here my entire life and I feel like I've stagnated and starting to rot. I'm saving up money to travel overseas and see some (hopefully) comfy places once/if the borders here open.
No.10592
It's just like any other place. Some parts are comfy, others aren't.
City population is a bit under 3mil people but I live on the outskirts. Day-to-day life hasn't been the most convenient. When you're too young to drive and too young to take public transportation on your own, you're pretty stuck. It's too dangerous to take a super long walk or bike ride, so when you're a kid you're basically just at the whim of your parents, or at least you are if you're in my situation. I always went to public schools that pulled in kids from different neighborhoods so I would only know one kid that lived particularly close to me.
Almost everything else I like about it, though. Different neighborhoods with different architectural styles, the city zoo to go to over the summer, parks and forest preserves, typically punctual public transportation. Museums and big libraries. A school system with a lot of things to offer. Politically it is bad, socioeconomically there are massive gaps. But I'm an optimist and am confident things will change sooner than later.
High school and a bus pass made me love the city a lot more, and later having a drivers license even more. I like my city, despite its issues, and I'm sure I'll end up missing it once I leave.
No.10593
>>10592I should've mentioned gentrification. It's changed a lot of places for the worse in my opinion. Wish it would stop
No.10596
>>10593What makes it so bad?
No.10597
>>10596Previously diverse spaces and small businesses that supported families are washed out with large corporate chains and more homogeny. It feels like a lot of the soul of certain areas is gone.
No.10601
>>10597Gentrification is about disrupting homogeneity and making bank at the expense of the hard work a community put into making their neighbourhood better than they found it, usually to the community's detriment, usually through rent price hikes and downright expulsions of locals by landlords while the local government pretends not to notice (usually because shooing the locals away will earn their cousins in the construction business a big paycheck). B&Bs sprouting like mushrooms, the local coffee shop turned into a starbucks and local events born out of the joys and difficulties of the locals turned into flavor of the month EDM on blast.
I live in the gentrification capital of the world and I have so many stories to share.
No.10607
>>10270really nice. looks subtropical
No.10608
>>10601I feel like everywhere I go is post-modern monopoly lived in for decades.
i've grown accustom to it No.10625
>>10601it sucks, the "nice" areas of major world cities all look like each other and have the same stores selling the same things
No.10627
>>10601>gentrification capital of the worldNYC? Do share your stories, sushi.
No.10687
>>10627My town is getting expensive; too many city folk coming here to get a holiday house…
No.10702
>>10687Maybe it's because I'm young and unsettled, but I find it hard to understand how someone could be so selfish as to take a second home while some people struggle to hang on to one.
That said, in some rural places in my country (UK), holiday home-owners support the local economy with their hunger for well-lit gastropubs and expensive cafés in town. And those establishments create jobs. So there are benefits.
No.10704
I live in a city with around 1M people. It is considered a small city where I live, but I see it as a big city considering where I came from.
>>10702For most cases I agree. Sometimes you live through hell in your workplace but receive so much money you try to buy back your sanity through these holiday houses. It is also somewhat common that many families of relatives will jointly buy one to save some money by taking vacation in different days.
No.10718
>>10702Because that question is like asking how people can be so selfish as to eat meat when so many people can't even afford grain. You not buying a mansion doesn't mean homeless people will be able to afford it.
No.14166
>>14156These guy's videos are really good. I didn't knew the canada and the murrica had such fucked up neighbourhoods.
No.16456
My city is nice, and I have a room to live in. Will probably afford an apartment in few years, so I am focusing on getting better at my job. A lot of things to do, and see. Even beaches. Too many cars, and too few friends, though.
>>10704I agree. It is not a rich people problem that average is poor.
No.16460
>>6736i live in a very bad city but it's still preferable to the suburban sprawl. at least i can walk everywhere i need to go. we have good sidewalks and i find interesting things on my walks. there's a chicken processing plant that's kicks up a horrible smell that's inescapable for about a quarter mile around and it happens to be right across the road from the grocery store near my house. i don't think it should be legal to build those things near where people live and shop. there's already a ton of them along the surrounding highways so i don't understand why there needs to be one in the city proper
No.16464
>>6736I live in a small city in Germany, with around 50.000 inhabitants. It's a very nice city and I like it a lot.
I work in a larger city and I wish I could live there too, but it would be too expensive. There's a good rail connection between the two, and my rail ticket is cheap, so it's nothing I complain about.
No.16485
>>16452that looks really good! like a falafel
No.16495
>>6736I live in 2 cities due to the fact that I'm a student, one of them is comfy and small enough to be walkable in its entirety, and the other has a pretty good public transport system and some sights to see, it's pretty decent. I'm not all too comfy in the second because of the insane renting prices these days and some of the city politics I'd rather not get into, and I don't feel great about the first one because I moved into the suburbs recently. The inner city area was much better as a place to live because of its close proximity to everything I needed
No.16533
>>16485it's arancini; italian rissoto & cheese ball that's battered and fried.
No.16569
>>16538??? what do you mean ???
No.16583
>>10704>1M people>small citylol do you live in China or something?
Just moved to a small city and it's a lot to take in coming from a rural town. Where I'm at now there's a lot of narrow row houses right next to each other. The back yards are kind of funny because it's like a human zoo, all these narrow patches of grass separated by chainlink fences. You can be standing in your yard and see everyone on the block in their yards. Shopping is convenient and all the major department stores, fast-food chains, and anything else you might want is minutes away but other than that I can't wait to move out and away from all the people.
No.17649
I want some place warm please
No.17651
>>17649you can live in my heart
No.17677
I really miss the era where cities felt like lived in museums or piecies of art, from the door handle to entire blocks. Now every other major modern city feels like a decaying industrial park, an open sewer, or a 20th century farm village 50 years post-mortem. I don't really get all that excited to live in a certain city anymore, they all just look the same no matter where you go. And the places that do retain their local character end up being flooded by tourists or media companies looking to make cash on the exotic setting. The amount of vloggers, photographers, and travel agencies that put theses otherwise small and quiet enclaves on blast is staggering.
Nothing but cracked asphalt, rusty traffic lights, plazas, and expansive parking lots as far as the eye can see. Everyone wears cheap synthetic clothing, and theres hardly any community in towns anymore
No.17691
>>17677When were cities like that? I can for sure that they've never been that way in my memory. I remember taking a trip to Madrid back in 2011 and feeling disappointed at how much it felt exactly the same as New York City, outside of the well-known tourist spots.
I can't help but feel like there's some rose-tinted glasses behind your post. Perhaps cities have always been the way that they are, but you've just grown more cynical and have lost your sense of wonder for them.
>>17686>politicians were honestlol
No.17697
Currently living in the downtown area of a city for work and freaking hate it. Constant noise from neighbors' parties, domestic violence screaming, daily road construction, street racing at 3am, gang battles shooting at each other right outside, deranged people howling at night, sirens for everything, etc. Not to mention the fucking potheads everywhere whose disgusting fumes invade my apartment and I'm not allowed to do anything about it. It's nonstop noise and stress. One of my greatest desires in life is to have quiet and to really feel like I'm finally alone. You can't have any of that in a city. It's not worth living under 10 miles from work if I have to live in this environment.
Previously I lived in a mountainous area where my 20-min drive to work took me past farms with horses, sheep, and more. The only noise came from frogs and crickets at night and you could actually see the stars at night since there were no street lamps. Things were slow and people minded their own business. It was a town of under 4000 people. My rent in farmland was 25% of what I pay now in the city.
Now, in a city I can't even go to the grocery store across the street without getting panhandled and keeping an eye out to make sure I don't get mugged… or my bike stolen… or my car tires slashed. This dumbass city gets to decide who can carry a self-defense firearm – you basically have to 'prove' to them your life is in imminent danger and they still get to say no, which they often do. Okay, lemme bring you the emergency room bill after I get shot. What's that, you still say no? Nothing can be done about it.
I can't stand it here and desperately need to get out. I belong back in the mountains with clean air and some actual freakin space to myself.
Being close to everything and any having lots of food choices is barely worth it when you're not even safe in your own home. It's not worth surrounding yourself with the worst of humanity, no matter how shiny it looks from the outside.
No.17707
>>17677Modern cities probably feel lifeless for the same reason corporate art feels soulless…
>>17686Lots of cities are cool. Like barcelona, bergen, singapore, to name a few. Ancient cities and modern ones alike have their own styles and flare, its recently that they've started to enblanden like how the internet has. But we can change that.
This is sushigirl, we imagine the better world we can make instead of loathing the one we have. "We choose to go to the moon and do the other things, not because they're easy - but because they're hard." Be the change you want to see.
People are becoming aware of improving our cities through public transportation, culturally relevant architecture, and expression - we just need to find a way around the corpos and the politicians they pay off so that we can escape the bland oppression of cubicles and copy-paste movie scripts to realize the creative boom that's bubbling within us all below the millennial grey facade!!! Cities should be a hodge-podge of history, culture, and people - people are interesting and make places interesting.
insum : let's grow our world like sakura trees! Let's bring colour and life back to our lives, our relationships, and our cities! Be creative and make the changes you want to see. Foster a butterfly culture so that someday the ashes of this vulture culture will give way to a brilliant phoenix!
No.17712
>>17686>Poloticians were honestNever in my life I've heard about that happening, where are you from?
No.17713
>>17712Sorry, I forget that tongue-in-cheek humor never goes over well on /sushi/. And while not necessary to recognize it as a joke, the joke is stolen from the "wear sunscreen" essay/speech/song that was popular 25 years ago, which is probably before most people's time here.
But anyways, it's a tongue-in-cheek joke at the expense of posts like
>>17697 or
>>>/otaku/5902that complain about how things were better in the old days. It starts out with statements about how cities and anime used to be better in the past, which could by themselves be taken as sincere.
However, it then segues into complaints about how gasoline prices have risen. At least in the USA, this is a stereotypical old person complaint that doesn't have much merit. Gasoline prices is a common complaint about inflation because the price is displayed on big signs at every gas station. But inflation is part of every functioning monetary system for millennia, it's not something that's being "ruined" by modern people.
Then the final statement that "politicians were honest" is intended to drive home the point that complaints about how things were better in the old days are often founded on an unrealistic view of the past. After all, almost no one thinks that their current politicians are honest; it's something that would only be said of politicians who are dead/retired. In their days of being active they would've been viewed as dishonest by most people.
I am sure it is not funny now, but that is the explanation.
No.17714
Big urban sprawls have lots of hiding places for weirdo loners like me. I like cities. Big dirty filthy ones with lots of dark corners.
No.17715
>>17713You make a good point. There's a lot of rose-tinted deception common among people, about how things were better "back when" in a fictional past that didn't exist. Life is more exciting when you can move forward and make the most of the present instead of remaining stuck in an imagined past. So it must feel tiresome to see people complaining so much about how bad things are now and "if only we could go back to when things were good". It seems to rob people of the conviction to enjoy their present when they remain glued to their past. Personally I see rosy glasses as a hazard. I would love to hear more of your thoughts on this though.
No.17717
Where I live is called a city but it’s a small town. Very weird vibe here. They just turned the historic and allegedly haunted mill into apartments, so I guess the place is booming? We’re a 30 minute drive to the capital so a lot of the people who live here commute back and forth. High murder rate over there. Not comfy.
No.17729
>>17715Basically the same. It's too easy to get lost in the past if you overvalue it.
No.17742
i live in the capitol of my state. it's not a big city like those of New York or Chicago but it's the biggest city i've lived in so far. honestly there are both pros and cons and i'm not sure if i could say i love it or hate it necessarily.
pros: much easier to meet new people. i've made tons of friends at the gym and through college or just people who live in my apartment building. lots of types of food. i have cuban, thai, sushi, american diner, ethiopian, mexican, chinese, indian, tons of new things to try and enjoy with my friends. there's also just more to do in general like go-karting, museums, parades, conventions, etc. there's also more job opportunities.
cons: cities are more expensive to live in for sure. went from paying 850$/month for a townhouse to paying 1100$/month for a studio apartment. there's also more crime and homelessness. i'd never had my car broken into or been harassed by the homeless for money before moving to the city. cities also sometimes are loud and smelly depending on the area.
so idk. i don't really regret moving to a city but there are definitely some things i miss about the country and i don't plan on living in the city all my life.
