I agree in a lot of ways. I&#x27;ve kind of dramatised the point for clarity.<p>I live in London, out in Zone 6.
In some ways it&#x27;s the best of both worlds, but often it feels daft that I don&#x27;t just live in the actual countryside.
(I previously lived in Z1&#x2F;2 - great for &#x27;doing stuff&#x27;, but it had me feeling like a farm animal fairly rapidly).<p>There is indeed lots of green space, within the city and outside of the city.<p>But it&#x27;s still a city. It&#x27;s almost completely manmade, there&#x27;s pollution or at least distraction everywhere (billboards, vehicle noise and fumes, people).<p>It doesn&#x27;t appeal to everyone, and the idea that it&#x27;s the &#x27;way forward&#x27; I find quite obscene. We should be giving people the choice.<p>There are lots of parts of living in the city I enjoy, and lots of parts of living in the country that I enjoy, and I think we should be setting up society so that people can choose their poison. Remote working would be a great start.<p>I think the most basic issue I have is with the idea that all of the problems of cities can be solved.<p>There&#x27;s at least one which is impossible to solve - and that is the sheer number of humans and the restrictions that go along with that. I don&#x27;t want to live in a street or a tower block that has 10,000 other humans in. It makes me feel like I&#x27;m in an ant farm.