Country or City?

[ChickensRDinos]

I get it. I have lived in LA proper for a little over ten years now. I loved it at first but it is starting to get old.

 

[hemet dennis]

I get it. I have lived in LA proper for a little over ten years now. I loved it at first but it is starting to get old.

It gets really good after your first riot.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

Country by far. Never lived in a city, never want to. Large amounts of people like that make me scared and uncomfortable.

Ewesheep--just curious. What's land going for in your area? Ours in NW PA is insane...1 acre for $18,200!!! a 98 acre farm with ZERO buildings for $220,00!!

Bare property here in Oregon is about $50,000 per acre on the west side of the Cascades, less on the East side. My 2.89 acres with 2000sq ft house was $300,000+

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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When we moved from SE Portland out to Oregon City(way out in the country) our first night we laid in bed and my wife says "Do you hear that?". I say "what", she says "exactly, nothing but quiet". I will not go back to city life. I don't mind driving 10+ miles each way just to get groceries. WORTH IT!!!!

 

[ChickensRDinos]

Bare property here in Oregon is about $50,000 per acre on the west side of the Cascades, less on the East side. My 2.89 acres with 2000sq ft house was $300,000+

Don't tell me these things! lol. It makes me want to move to Oregon even more. California housing prices as insane.

 

[theoldchick]

Very true. I guess really city vs country are not the only two options. There are lots of shades in between. To me, moving to a place where I could have half to a full acre woud feel like moving to the country. But I guess that is more suburbs or a smaller town to other folks. Others may considered the suburbs city while someone who lives in a really urban place like me does think of it as city at all.

I am not sure I would like living in the real country - might be too big a culture shock for me. It would take me a very long time to get used to so much quiet.

For contrast here is the view looking out from my front yard lol. Trees are a bit of a novelty for me.

Country is not that quiet. Birds are singing, roosters are crowing, cows are mooing, always a dog barking in the distance. Cicadas doing their thing. I was raised in the city (except for 2 years in OK), I left as soon as I could.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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Sorry. I know they are outrageous down there. We would welcome you(even though another Cali transplant

).

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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Yes I know the country is not quiet. But after YEARS of SE Portland's Police sirens and car alarms, the country was quiet.

 

[hemet dennis]

Sorry. I know they are outrageous down there. We would welcome you(even though another Cali transplant

).

Well in So. Calif. we tan in the summer and in Oregon they rust.

 

[TurtlePowerTrav]

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LOL, Yep we do. But I will take it. 75 degrees is my limit, and I love the snow we get occasionally.