What you perfer? Rural? Suburban? Urban?

[stappard]

I live in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, certainly the most rural and least densely populated so I prefer the city - but my heart is in the sticks. I just love being the only person around for miles upon miles, having an entire beach to myself. There's also more castles here than anywhere else in Europe IIRC, most of them well over 500 years old... but best of all, we don't get tourists, they all fuck off to the lakes or drive straight past us and into Scotland

Is the first photo dunstanburgh? looks like it. plenty family holidays ruond there as a kid, i just remember it being really wet and cold. northumberland has some serious hidden potential though, especially summer when the sun sets bizarrely late (or at least it feels that way to a southerner)


I'm in london atm but brought up in suburban hertfordshire. both have upsides, being a kid and being able to play football on massive fields was awesome, but the city feels more alive. feels odd to go 'home' for a couple of days and there not be cars on the road after 9 after youve been living on camberwell new road..

[BaronVon]

I recently moved from here


to here


I'm not sure which i prefer yet.

[LACE]

Kind of torn between urban and rural..suburbs are the equivalent of a death sentence in my eyes. I love the culture of big cities, lots of things to do as well.. but at the end of the day, its the quiet I really enjoy..

this.

gimme a city any day

i live in suburban manchester, on the outskirts of a gigantic council estate where there is literally nothing to do except pubs and shitty nightclubs

i luckily live near fallowfield/rusholme/withington and on the bus about 40mins from the city centre so i can get out but suburbia is SHIT

i dont think i could deal with the countryside because i am too much in love with my urban pursuits, i love cities, i love busy-ness despite how lazy i am...

defo a city guy

It's like a black hole. There's two local pubs here though..they always book really shit cover bands and just a few weeks ago a group of 4 young twenty somethings beat the shit out of some 50 year old man because he was talking to one of their girlfriends.

[noam]

I recently moved from here


to here


I'm not sure which i prefer yet.

second photo looks beautiful... whereabouts is it??

@Lace: sounds about right... i stay away from my locals for precisely them reasons, not that city is much better but its more easily avoidable!

[kidshuffle]

oh, and anything but suburban. anything.

This. Fuck the burbs, I'm glad I just moved back into the city.

[lloydnoise]

lived in all 3, suburbs are more fun when you're younger but I think as you get older it's either city or country
living in a small city like Bath or Brighton is a nice compromise, both are surrounded by sweet sweet countryside as well

[firky]

I live in one of the most beautiful parts of the country, certainly the most rural and least densely populated so I prefer the city - but my heart is in the sticks. I just love being the only person around for miles upon miles, having an entire beach to myself. There's also more castles here than anywhere else in Europe IIRC, most of them well over 500 years old... but best of all, we don't get tourists, they all fuck off to the lakes or drive straight past us and into Scotland

Is the first photo dunstanburgh? looks like it. plenty family holidays ruond there as a kid, i just remember it being really wet and cold. northumberland has some serious hidden potential though, especially summer when the sun sets bizarrely late (or at least it feels that way to a southerner)

Doesn't get dark in the summer and yeah it is cold, but not all that wet. First thing I noticed when I lived on the south coast was the difference in the sunsets and lack of starlight. And how bloody wet it is in the SW!

[firky]

Kind of torn between urban and rural..suburbs are the equivalent of a death sentence in my eyes. I love the culture of big cities, lots of things to do as well.. but at the end of the day, its the quiet I really enjoy..

I lived in Carshalton before I got a place in London. It was suburb hell, just a warren of old council estates, laundrettes and taxi ranks. Never lived anywhere quite like it, there was actually nothing in the truest sense.

[kay]

I think the urban/suburban/rural thing is a lot less defined in the UK than the US. Even if you live in an urban location, it's still fairly simple in most cities to just head out to the countryside. Only time it's a bit more difficult is when you live in the middle of London or can't drive.

I think living at the edge of any small city in the UK is a pretty good compromise. For London, I'd say the middle is the best. In terms of rural areas, I'd have to be in some place where there's lots of places to wander around and see. Rural Hertfordshire is definitely not where it's at.

[firky]

IIRC Britain is the only country in Europe, maybe the west, where people move from the city to the country for a better standard of living.

I am from the countryside as I said and it's where my heart lies but I love the city! Portsmouth was a bit of a hole but I loved living in a city by the sea, I could see the Solent from my bedroom window and walk to the beach in under a minute. It was ace in summer... but the winters, my God, the winters were long, wet, grey and foggy. It could get very depressing, although there was something comforting about hearing the fog horns from the shipping lanes in foul weather.



Also lived in Oxford, briefly, very briefly - a matter of months. I really liked the city too, very beautiful and like most British towns and cities; ancient. However there was something about it that never let me feel quite settled, maybe it was because I knew it was a short lived stay, or maybe it was all the Oxford students but it never felt like a place I could make my home.

Newcastle is a much undervalued city. Parts of the Quayside and Grainger town could rival London for their majesty and Victorian and contemporary opulence. You can tell that it was a very important city at one point with lots of money, the people are also unique. Never known anyone be as proud of their roots as a proper Geordie.

Lived in a few other places too, Vancouver for a little bit and Penticton in BC, Canada. Can't really say I enjoyed living there because I didn't.

I'd like to move down south again but my dad is very poorly and I have to care for him now and again to give my mum respite. So I doubt I'll ever settle down south - probably end up not too far from when I started!

[Dartma]

honestly I enjoy all three. They all offer great things

[yoowan]

I feel very very very lucky to have lived in a pretty small town all my life. I'm 40 mins away from Manchester with regular trains and i'm within walking distance of this..



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Saddleworth?!

[noam]

^^^
or Glossop or sumat

[isiahfire]

I feel very very very lucky to have lived in a pretty small town all my life. I'm 40 mins away from Manchester with regular trains and i'm within walking distance of this..



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Saddleworth?!

Noam was closer, its actually Hayfield, just below the Kinder reservoir looking towards Kinder Scout, one of my favourite places in the world.

[yoowan]

ah right. im representing saddleworth anyway, id say its a rural/suburban hybrid. got good enough transport into town (manchester)

[fragments]

Grew up in the suburbs, which I now loathe. I can't do the city, all the stuff I love is in the city, but I'd much rather be out in the country. Thankfully in Ohio you can live relatively in the country an not be too far from civilization.

I'd like to live somewhere that I can fire handguns from my rocking chair on the porch and no one bothers me...

[th@-pu$$y]

[Carljnrendora]

London suburbs, easy to get to central london cos of underground, buses are plentiful and there's basically everything I need in my suburb of gants hill. We even 'faces' here as seen on the only way is essex haha. It's goooood

[Lectric]

Snobby high society urban is how i like it
everything else depresses me

[gorillabearbear]

Very rural for me.

Though being into music kind of requires you to be in the city. It's annoying. Being in the city for too long gets me depressed.

Going up on the moors tomorrow in fact to escape a bit.

Suburban would kill me. Not rural nor as interesting as being in city. Fuck that

That's why I'll always live in a smallish city. Lived in Cambridge all my life till uni when I moved to Norwich, Great thing about both is they're big enough to have a little bit going on (well, maybe not Cambridge but London's only an hour away) but it's pretty easy to hop on your bike and be out in the fens for a bit of peace.