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  I live in what people who grew up in a small town call a city and it’s hardly my definition of a city Fargo is nowhere in relation to a big city like Portland or Chicago it’s almost like Mayberry from the Andy Griffith show to me
context: I think a lot of people hate living in cities, it's just that the cities are where most of the jobs are so many of us are sort of stuck. >
  
  Big cities are cool but some are mad dirty and unimpressive. >
  
  A lot of people live in the city, that's why I don't >
  
  I could never live outside of a city. >
  
  Why? >
  
  I don’t have a car. Living outside of a city would be impossible >
  
  It depends the city you live in. Most cities in the USA share the same grid pattern with spread housing and surrounded by suburban hell and wallmart stores with nothing being able to be done without the assistance of a car. 
  On the other hand, european big cities like Paris are dense and pedestrian friendly with good public transport infrastructure : 14 metro lines, 308 stations, on a 88 km² territority (in comparaison, Chicago has only 8 metro lines, with 145 stations, on a 607.4km² territory, which is 14,6 times less dense). The same goes for Asian cities.
  Thus if ou lie live near a forest, that is good for you. >
  
  Grew up in a rural are/small town, moved to a big city as a teenager and have returned to said small town. I love the city and wish I could move back but I’m not in a financially secure enough place for that yet. My lifestyle is just more well suited for the city, I prefer it strongly. >
  
  Cities are attractive if you are single. They have a huge number of singles of whichever gender(s) you are interested in, lots of public spaces to mingle and meet those people in, and lots of date-friendly venues and events.
  After you settle down permanently, cities lose their appeal. >
  
  Euh, disagree. There are many reasons why cities are great to live in. E.g. now I'm on one of the high-speed, regular, 24/7 train connections going home from a Christmas party. Otherwise I would have to drive and couldn't enjoy the nice glühwein. >
  
  Shhh. Don't tell them the secret awesomeness of living in the woods. They will all want to come live away from the city ;) >
  
  Nope >
  
  Sounds like a dream.  I hope one day I can make the same shift. >
  
  I live in a nice small town of about 1800. I'm within an hour of all the restaurants, shopping, hospitals and doctors, etc I could ever want and also surrounded by farmland, lakes, rivers, forests, etc. It's the best of both worlds. And you can still buy a nice old house here for under 200k. >
  
  the unpopular opinion is that YOU hate living in big cities?
  that's your opinion. that's not an unpopular opinion.
  and for what it's worth, i actually live in a big city, near a forest, and on a lake. there are gulls and squirrels and crows and buses and people on bikes. >
  
  
  gulls and squirrels and crows
  
  What city folk think wildlife is lmao >
  
  I lived in a city with peacocks, armadillos, deer, and ever some parrots rumored. >
  
  The particular species you actually see in your city isn't what's really important, it's the fact cities always have greatly diminished biodiversity, a general absence of large ungulates and carnivores, abnormal behavior in its resident animals compared to their truly wild counterparts, etc. You're lacking a huge part of the depth of experiencing nature as it truly is. You have "wildlife" but not wildlife.
  Parrots would still be kinda cool though