I live in the city now after years of living in the country, and I definitely wanna go back to the country. The only good thing about the city is that I can just walk across the street for groceries which are way more expensive here than where I moved from. City has more pests, too. Once in a while I’d see a field mouse get into the kitchen when I was living in the sticks. In the city, cockroaches and big fat fucking rats all the time, everywhere, the minute the sun goes down. It’s gross.
Phase 2: they discover it’s a pain and stop doing it.
I think this every time someone romanticizes living out in the country.
I live in the city now after years of living in the country, and I definitely wanna go back to the country. The only good thing about the city is that I can just walk across the street for groceries which are way more expensive here than where I moved from. City has more pests, too. Once in a while I’d see a field mouse get into the kitchen when I was living in the sticks. In the city, cockroaches and big fat fucking rats all the time, everywhere, the minute the sun goes down. It’s gross.
The ideal city size is about 100k people. Big enough to have stuff to do, but small enough that you don’t have to drive forever to do it.
If you think living in a big city involves driving anywhere routinely to begin with, you’re doing it wrong.