I think a major part of this isn't just country vs. urban, it's also where you live in the country and what Nation you are from. USA has a lot of places to go and tons of shit to see in the country; England, not so much.
I lived in a city for 4 years; i missed the quiet- and darkness at night - on the other hand the internet is super shitty out here in the countryside; we barely get 2mbit/s :v:
The only big cities which I have enjoyed staying in were Tucson, AZ and Buffalo, NY. I miss Tucson because it was right next to mountains where I could go hiking, and it also had a lot of fun stores and places to hang out at(4th Avenue and Safe House, amirite?), but I honestly can't stand staying or being in big cities. I have been to LA and San Fran, hated it. I have been to NYC, god kill me. I have passed and stayed in Denver and Salt Lake City on multiple occasions, and every time was fronted with the terrible air conditions and smog.
Now I think about places like Boise, Bismarck, Cheyenne, and several other "small" capitals through out the plains and North-West. All of them have been filled with so much natural history, the people are very helpful and nice to talk too, and more importantly... No fucking homeless. These places usually actually care about getting the homeless off the street so they don't freeze to death, and people are disallowed from panhandling. It's a strong contrast to where in Tucson you have people doing Stolen Valor to sell newspapers and sometimes selling drugs to kids on every street corner in the Catalina Foothills.
I LOVE TREES
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Live in one of those commieblocks on the right, or in one of the houses on the left.
Those million quid will help you get to the trees
Perfect time to post pictures of Karlstad
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Sadly enough there aren't a lot of bird view pictures, so these will have to do.
Karlstad is pretty much a medium sized city in the middle of Sweden, with forest surrounding it and a lake right below it.
[QUOTE=riki2cool;43544742]Perfect time to post pictures of Karlstad
Sadley enough there aren't a lot of bird view pictures, so these will have to do.
Karlstad is pretty much a medium sized city in the middle of Sweden, with forest surrounding it and a lake right below it.[/QUOTE]
Looks like just about every danish city.
[QUOTE=Sprockethead;43544749]Looks like just about every danish city.[/QUOTE]
Norway, Denmark and Sweden does look almost identical to each other (Most parts of Finland too)
[QUOTE=riki2cool;43544768]Norway, Denmark and Sweden does look almost identical to each other (Most parts of Finland too)[/QUOTE]
except denmark is completely sedimentary, so no cliffs or mountains.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;43543989]No I just prefer attractions in the cities. They have pubs and cinemas, cultural events, etc.
Countryside has them as well, but naturally it's always going to have less than the city, and on a smaller scale.
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we get it, you want to be a psychopath and blow up stuff in your back garden, it's probably a good thing you are in the middle of nowhere where there is nobody to annoy.
the countryside isn't free to me. unless you live near something interesting it's pretty boring. all of the forests and shit end up looking the same when you go through them enough
if you don't have a car, and the buses are shite, then the countryside is shit to live in sorry. you can't fucking get anywhere without a car there and the quality of country roads makes it a crapshoot anyways (and bicycles are fun until you realize the weather is shit about 300 days of the year)[/QUOTE]
Any Sobotnik post: [I]"I am right and you are wrong."[/I]
Ironically calls other people psychopaths.
[QUOTE=The golden;43540373]The novelty wears off real fast. Especially in heavily congested ones.[/QUOTE]
Pretty much this. The best place to live is the countryside a short drive away from the city.
Living 25-30 minutes from down sucks. Having satellite internet sucks. I'm between to towns in the middle of the woods. It costs 10$ to drive anywhere. Usually more. There's no one my age to hang out with that aren't just a bunch of potheads. Which aren't very fun to hang with when you don't smoke.
I do like being able to walk outside and shoot guns. Or drive off on an ATV. But without other people to socialize with. It doesn't make up for the isolation
[QUOTE=TestECull;43541584]Desolation? You mean freedom. See, I live out in the sticks, and living out in the sticks lets me do things that'd have SWAT units converging on my house if I was in a suburb. I can take my 7.62mm rifle out into my back yard and plink away at oil filters all goddamn day. Nobody cares. I can run my noisy nitro RCs in my back yard all day long. Nobody cares. I can set off fireworks literally from dawn to midnight on the fourth [i]and nobody cares.[/i] If I wanted to I could buy some $200 junkers from the scrapyard and bomb around in my back yard with them until the motors gave out, then shoot 'em full of holes, and nobody would care. We also don't get people posting political bullshit in your front yard, which is wonderful.[/QUOTE]
This "I can do whatever I want in the countryside" mentality is only partially true. There's still a pretty big problem with small towns, which is how everyone knows everyone. That means you can't get drunk anywhere that isn't a house party without bumping into your uncle, cousin and grandmother. You have to go to the most desolate places if you smoke weed. And if someone finds out you did something wrong? Well, you better get ready, because soon the whole town will know about it too.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;43540411]But the countryside is so boring and shit.
It's too quiet, the people are too homogeneous, internet is worse, you have to travel for ages to get to any shops or attractions, a lot of the farms smell like shit, and it's too dark to walk around at night.
Not to mention there's a lot of desolation and the people tend to live 20 years in the past in the countryside.[/QUOTE]
But actually seeing the night sky is a humbling endeavor, and playing in woods is fantastic with airsoft, etc and the like.
But yeah, internet tends to shit itself and some of the people are behind on the times (Welcome to the Bible Belt).
However when you taste the college life, you don't want to go back for long.
What seems to be the case is that the Americans in this thread like the countryside, whilst the British don't. There is a strong difference between the UK countryside and the American countryside.
[QUOTE=Virtanen;43544833]Pretty much this. The best place to live is the countryside a short drive away from the city.[/QUOTE]
I say the opposite is better. You can still relax in the countryside when you want to, but you still have all the services you need close to home.
[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;43544957]This "I can do whatever I want in the countryside" mentality is only partially true. There's still a pretty big problem with small towns, which is how everyone knows everyone. That means you can't get drunk anywhere that isn't a house party without bumping into your uncle, cousin and grandmother. You have to go to the most desolate places if you smoke weed. And if someone finds out you did something wrong? Well, you better get ready, because soon the whole town will know about it too.[/QUOTE]
So don't do wrong then.
[QUOTE=Tacooo;43543750]I think this is hard to accomplish due to the fact that tree roots don't give a fuck about your bricks and will eat through your walls if they find it comfortable[/QUOTE]
Obviously they've thought of that otherwise those buildings in that city wouldn't exist so that's not really a valid argument against it now is it? :v:
[QUOTE=lazyguy;43545266]So don't do wrong then.[/QUOTE]
As if it was that easy. I'm not just talking "breaking the law" wrong, I'm talking about literally everything. Everyone makes mistakes. I feel a lot more comfortable living somewhere where not everyone is going to be talking about the mistakes I make, though.
[QUOTE=gjsdeath;43544922]Living 25-30 minutes from down sucks. Having satellite internet sucks. I'm between to towns in the middle of the woods. It costs 10$ to drive anywhere. Usually more. There's no one my age to hang out with that aren't just a bunch of potheads. Which aren't very fun to hang with when you don't smoke.
I do like being able to walk outside and shoot guns. Or drive off on an ATV. But without other people to socialize with. It doesn't make up for the isolation[/QUOTE]
If they're not fun to hang out with it's not because they smoke weed, it's probably because they're actually just boring people.
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It's probably a really boring place too
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wait that's why they smoke weed it all makes sense now
[QUOTE=carcarcargo;43541245]I hate going to the countryside, I just find it dull[/QUOTE]
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Suggest you visit here, quite fine. (actual town across The Fort)
The country-side is awesome but gets dull fast, city is also awesome but gets dull fast. I live in an inbetween place, a small town basically with plenty of country-side. It's nice but boring sometimes.
[QUOTE=MrJazzy;43545914]The country-side is awesome but gets dull fast, city is also awesome but gets dull fast. I live in an inbetween place, a small town basically with plenty of country-side. It's nice but boring sometimes.[/QUOTE]
I do as well, sort of.
My town is wedged between a large city and the countryside, and has plenty of trees around.
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Which is pretty ironic considering that it was an industrial hellhole a century ago:
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[QUOTE=DrogenViech;43544363]I lived in a city for 4 years; i missed the quiet- and darkness at night - on the other hand the internet is super shitty out here in the countryside; we barely get 2mbit/s :v:[/QUOTE]
Move to a rural town. I live in a slightly bigger place that has less than 5K people, but we're getting Fiber optic internet installed, and we have the benefit of being near good hunting lands AND having an assload of trees, but still have the infrastructure of a big city. If you'd like to know how dense the trees can get, i have a small forest that borders my backyard, and i live near the center of town.
[QUOTE=Virtanen;43544833]Pretty much this. The best place to live is the countryside a short drive away from the city.[/QUOTE]
You'll get swallowed by the city.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;43542299]How about [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permeable_paving"]permeable pavement of sort?[/URL] Something which lets rainwater go down into the sewers, and at the same time allows for some form of pavement.
Actually... How about grass and concrete sidewalks?
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That looks ugly as sin.
[QUOTE=Sgt-NiallR;43546617]That looks ugly as sin.[/QUOTE]
Mmmeh it depends, it can look good
I completely agree with this. I've never felt at home where I am (I live in a city), when I went away for 3 weeks into rural areas of america and hawaii, I felt so, so happy. I know it was because of the natural land and its captivating beauty.
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