Country VS City

[gritsar]

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My DH's graduating class had 16 students! I went to high school in Miami. I didn't have a single class that had less than 30 students in it!

 

[Zuesdude]

You can take the boy out of the city but you can't take the city out of the boy. This has been true for more then a thousand years. Most people that grow up in the city return to the city.

 

[CityChicker]

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...and vice versa?

 

[Davaroo]

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...and vice versa?

Sometimes. We do tend to revert to our roots.
But, I know people who wouldn't move back to the country for 'nuttin, to hear them tell it.

"Heck, I moved up and got away from that mess," they'll say. "Why would I want to go back, unless I was forced to??"

 

[AngieChick]

It seems like it's in peoples nature whether they prefer the country or the city (or heck, rain or sun). My brother, sister and I had the same upbringing. I prefer the woods, my sister prefers the suburbs, and my brother has declared on many occasions that the only way he is leaving San Francisco is in a coffin

When I visited him recently, I had a great time, but there comes a point where in order for me to calm down I have to go away from all of the people and be surrounded by trees. I have lived in both settings, but I was never really happy or content in the city. My brother is the opposite, but that's okay. Both have their pluses and minuses.

 

[CityChicker]

My brother is the same way (actually my parents are now too). They occasionally like to get back to the country, but they are pretty happy in the city. I, on the other hand, don't think I will ever be completely content living in the city. The years that we lived in an apartment were just awful for me. I have to have, at a bare minimum, a decent yard to garden.

 

[Davaroo]

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Fair? Fair is in the eyes of the one who pushes the hardest.

I agree with you entirely. "When in Rome do as the Romans," I say.

But you can thank the "green movement" we so love, and it's many offshoots, for the urbanization of our rural spaces. Everyone and their brother now thinks that living in the country is the way to go. "Be Green and Love Mother Nature," is the new motto.

Once the unheard cry of the hippie elite and fringe whackos, it is now on everyone's mind to own a little piece of the country while they still can. So, all this talk of green, country living we so love to chatter on about is actually the root of our own discontent. What a paradox, eh?

As a Realtor, I've seen it played out over and over. The American Dream has shifted somewhat.

And as always happens when you find transplants, anywhere, you also find they bring their old life with them. Look at the early immigrants to this country - they essentially set up the "old country" in their new homes.
If I moved North tomorrow, some part of my would denounce all Yankees for not having decent 'grits' any where in sight. And no "sweet tea?" Heathens all of them....

Every frog praises his own pond and it is human nature to want what you know, wherever you are.

In the end you get a hybrid, since neither can truly get rid of the other. It's probably best to welcome the city hordes and tutor them, making them country... before they have the chance to "citify" the country.

Since much of our ever increasing population wants to "get out there," the sanity you save may be your own.

Good comments, Randy.

 

[catfish/okie]

I live in a town of about 750. The things I like is almost everybody here is country. People watch out for each other so you dont have many breakins and that kind of stuff. and our town allows chickens. But it is still a town and afew dont like roosters crowing. and it is nice sometimes when your closest neighbor is a half a mile away.

 

[Judy]

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To each his own. One of the main advantages of the country, to me, is LESS human contact. And of course I'm right... for me... not for you!

 

[BantyHugger]

Wow, all these stories have been great. I would love to find a middle ground but as of now I am a minor. I have a few more years before I can go anywhere on my own.

However, for the past week I have been on a road trip. We had to drive from Texas to Idaho to pick up my cousin who is now moving in with us. I thought Denver would be great but Idaho was fantastic! My Aunt and Uncle took me fishing some where about 60 miles from Boise. It was gorgeous! The mountains and streams and please lets not forget the wild life. I saw elk, deer, antelope, rainbow trout, and I even got to see a mother Osprey feeding her chicks. The shiny granite in the river along with the foamy white rapids left me awestruck. I even found a large hunk of Jade, but not knowing what it was, threw it back into the water. Boise is nice and big, but its not too far from the wilderness. Thats my kind of middle ground.

PS: I will upload some pics of my trip. If any of it sounds like an exaggeration, it was my first trip west of Texas.