Favorite/least favorite environments to live in

[johnjohn320]

Poll included. Speaking within US/otherwise developed countries here. Vote for your favorite, post your least favorite!

 

[Anubis]

rural

i hate people

 

[johnjohn320]

K so apparently I suck at creating multiple poll questions. Oh well, vote for your favorite...

 

[mmntech]

rural

i hate people

This.

I used to live in a small town. Several kickbacks later and now it's a city. :\

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

rural

i hate people

totally agree with this, but I had my most fun in college. so college town will always have a place in my heart.

 

[PenguinPower]

After living in Tokyo...medium city with a nice rural/suburban area within 30 minutes driving distance.

 

[KMFJD]

rural

i hate people

i hate slow internet speeds, next time i move it will be out of a rural area to a small town (around 5k tops)

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Medium city. I want to be near enough to civilization that everything I could ever want is within walking distance, but not so massive that finding nature feels like an epic quest.

 

[Anubis]

totally agree with this, but I had my most fun in college. so college town will always have a place in my heart.

college towns are fun when you are in college and sub 25, but thousands of drunk annoying teenagers become very annoying very fast once you get older

 

[Anubis]

i hate slow internet speeds, next time i move it will be out of a rural area to a small town (around 5k tops)

bout where i am now

 

[tHa ShIzNiT]

college towns are fun when you are in college and sub 25, but thousands of drunk annoying teenagers become very annoying very fast once you get older

right. at this point in my life I would avoid it at all costs. A rural town on the california coast would be my choice. Those are few and far between though. Somewhere in central cali.

 

[xSauronx]

small town. in a town of 10k now, its got noticeably more to do than the towns in this rural area with ~5k people, but still not so big that its busy or a pain in the ass to get around.

 

[Ichinisan]

Space.

Space.

 

[Jumpem]

My favorite would be cold, snowy, and rural. Rural is hard as far as work goes though, so I live in a cold and snowy suburb.

My least favorite setting would be urban.

 

[rh71]

suburbia - I love being able to drive everywhere yet still see people around. City is too much concrete and traffic plus you can't park easily.

 

[K1052]

Big city.

Spent all of my life in rural and small/med cities until I was 23. No interest in ever returning.

 

[Jeff7]

Rural is nice for the pleasant surroundings and lack of people, but it also sucks having to drive 10-15 miles to get to anything other than trees, grass, cows, or suicidal deer.

Suburbs or small town - not so bad, though I'm not a fan of row houses, or the residential areas where the houses are jammed right up to within 4 feet of each other. Basic grocery stores and small shops are also conveniently just a few minutes away.
There are more goddamn loud motorcycles out here though, and I have a feeling that automated high-decibel-targeting turrets would be illegal.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

Urban. I live downtown in a medium sized city. Wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[xeemzor]

Big city.

Spent all of my life in rural and small/med cities until I was 23. No interest in ever returning.

Grew up in Northbrook(suburb of Chicago) and feel the same way. Suburbs suck massively.

Currently live on the northside of Chicago and couldn't be happier.

 

[lxskllr]

I'd have split up small town and suburb. I voted rural, but if small town were on it's own, I'd have had a hard time deciding. I despise the suburbs, but small towns are nice for being able to walk to things, but not having to deal with the chaos of cities.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

I'd have split up small town and suburb.

I would put downtown into a separate category too. Urban city neighborhoods are pretty different than most central business districts.

 

[Murloc]

the poll is broken because those definitions vary by country.

I like the size of my home urban area (it's not a single commune but geographically it's a city) that is like 60k people (I consider this a small city), it's a bit boring but even if you double the size to reach the population of the next bigger city, you still get a boring city. So there's no point. I don't like the big cities because of the noise and pollution.

But of course, I'm used to living in Switzerland, where small city if you're out of the valleys and in the more populated areas means being max 2 hours away from a big city with everything you could need, and much less to other similarly sized or bigger cities, including the common shopping and industrial areas in between that encroach with agricultural territory (I'm talking about a 30 min drive max in low traffic to reach the next urban centre).

I think I'd go crazy in a city this size in a place like the US or Russia, where to my understanding you may have to travel for way more time than I'm used to before reaching a bigger city.
In that case I'd prefer a suburb. Here any village that is not on the mountains or high valley areas is a suburb.

 

[Sinsear]

Away from any place that could be construed as ghetto

 

[lothar]

Burbs > *

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Suburbs. In a quiet neighborhood you can be far more anonymous than in a small town.