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'cause I just don't get it.
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all the best,
mrh
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I think the obvious answer for the city is the nightlife, the theatre, the restaurants, museums, the pretty people, bars, clubs, meeting people from various places/cultures/career paths.
Living in a town of just over 2000 in north Vancouver Island and living in a metropolis like Hong Kong is a massive shift in living speed and vibrancy.
I like both and if I stay in one of the two for too long I begin to miss the other one. I suppose that's why there are so many RV owners. They want to live away from all that hustle and bustle but they also want to return home to it.
I like Nanaimo where I purchased a home in October of 2018 and I hope to pay it off in 2022. So when I finally return home it is a nice middle ground-sized city. The population of 90,000 and 1.5 hours drive to Victoria and can take a ferry to Seattle. Several ferries to Vancouver and various small islands. Nanaimo is somewhat centrally located so one can drive up to Tofino for surfing or Port Alice for fishing - the ferries are free for seniors Monday to Thursday $17.95 regular price each way so that's quite a deal for return trips to Vancouver.
This gives you a bit of both serenity and city life because Nanaimo has its pretty spots but being big enough that there is a Walmart.
Then again Vancouver has plenty of cities next to beauty (Stanley Park) and one can always drive to Whistler. So it's not exactly like you have to go that far to reach the picturesque. Even Hong Kong while viewed as a large city is still an ocean and mountain city - and it's easy to get to the biking trails and beaches.
I have travelled fairly extensively and Vancouver Island is sure tough to beat - the weather is also the best in Canada often compared to New Zealand.
Yeah, who'd wanna live in NYC, Chicago, Paris, Rome, Milan, London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen Munich, Brussels? One helluva lotta people, including me. I lived in Manhattan for over 40 years and worked on the road in the cities above (except London). Lots of other great cities all over the world I'd love to check out. The answer to your question is basically "If ya have to ask...."We loved living in Manhattan. If we could have afforded a significantly larger apt. in Manhattan we'd probably still be there. But I really like where we are are now, in Weehawken, NJ. Very nice residential area, great friendly neighbors and takes us about 15 minutes to get to the city. No doubt you prefer the fantastic view of nature you have and I certainly can understand, but we enjoy our panoramic view of the Hudson River and the West Side of Manhattan skyline from the Freedom Tower up to around 65th St. too. Above is a small sample from our deck.
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Stuff like this = cities.
Miles Davis and Bird met in The Big City, for example.
Etc.
We can get ANY TYPE of (very, very good) food delivered hot and
fresh within one hour for dinner. Or lunch. Or Breakfast.
Improvisation thrives in a (the) city.
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"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" -Michael McClure
But I personally wouldn't want to live on a large property like that.
I prefer smaller properties, having people around me (I even enjoy talking to our crazy neighbor who knows everyone and everything), being close to shopping, a hospital, restaurants, etc.
My FIL has 5 acres 10 minutes from our 0.35 acre house/property. Would I swap (assuming equal house) if I could? Yes. But it's a bit bigger than ideal.
If I had a zillion dollars I'd be on somewhere from 2-4 manicured (mostly simple) acres.
Where I live there are 3 Tim Hortons and KFC in every corner. I wonder if KFC tastes better in Kentucky.
If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing well
(Proverb)
KFC is NOT allowed in Kentucky. you can get Brown's Fried Chicken (started in Chicago) or perhaps Church's Fried Chicken......
But the best is STILL probably at the big feed Sunday afternoon after services are done.....
Too much is never enough
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Who could Possibly have guessed that KFC was actually available IN Kentucky?
My very NEXT Holiday will be a 'tour of KFC in Kentucky'......
completely unexpected.
Too much is never enough
much of a steel and concrete fancier either.
I can visit the city when desired.
Theater. Art/foreign film theaters. Museums. Far fewer rednecks...
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I had to put up with views like this everyday.
When I worked offshore from Grand Isle, during the Tarpon Rodeo every year, we had boats tied up to our platform with chicks sunning. Once in a while we would get a flasher.
nice! I'm movin' to the dong State (Homer Simpson).
Any chance you got a pic of her companion, looks like she left something behind:)
I still live in the city and the country although now it's 5 days in the country and 2 in the city
And where can you get a restaurant that can make upside down peas.
Silence is golden duct tape is silver
Coincidentally, just the other day, after seeing the traffic report, I commented to the wifey that back in the 1820s or so, it made sense to have a "downtown" or "city center" where people could go to a "store" to buy feed, groceries, etc. But, somehow, that necessity morphed into it being a place for people to go to work, resulting in massive traffic which the idiot city "planners" and "transportation engineers" still can't figure out how to manage.
I can only surmise that this is a throwback to ancient Rome and Athens, and that we, as a species, haven't grown out of it yet.
On the other hand, as a musician and sound engineer, there's not a lot of work in, say, Hearne, Texas - which DOES have a downtown.
But I DO get what you're saying!
:)
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We are inclusive and diverse. But dissent will not be tolerated.
And I live in a suburb, grew up in the suburbs.
Suburbs force people to drive cars.
I'd be happier living in the heart of the city or out in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway, cities are where the jobs are. That's why people live in and around cities.
And that's a good thing because your pic above, the sky wouldn't be clear and the air clean and the trees green if humans flocked there.
The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?
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"Old" cities (like the ones you and I both live in/near) were built around transportation--ports, stage-coach routes, rail lines, etc., and sources of natural resources--mines, oil-fields, agricultural production, etc. People lived near these "centric" locations, and associated businesses and industries developed. As business "boomed", people were forced to build further out. Then, as things got too crowded and polluted near that "center", people moved even further out to "escape".
More modern developments are the "planned" or "bedroom" communities. Buy-up relatively cheap land even further out and build a highway to get there--"instant suburb".
I grew-up in the middle of nowhere (mainly agricultural), but close enough to a "town" with manufacturing industry. I've lived in an urban setting, as well--DC, right on DuPont Circle. From my parents' home, it is still 7 miles in any direction to the nearest traffic light (or convenience store/gas station).
I guess that I'm technically in "suburbia" now--close enough to the city, but also close enough to the stix.
"So I talk to the night, I head for the light, try and hold it on the road. Thank God for the man who put
the white lines on the highway"--a very dear friend for decades Michael Stanley (Gee)--RIP
We live in the sticks now. We weren't willing to drive an hour and a half to and from the city when we were working.
Hospitals
Museums
Concerts
JOBS
JOBS
That my work doesn't require long commutes to an office. As an IT guy, I've been working from a home office for twenty years.
All I need is broadband and access to a nearby airport for occasional travel. :)
Very nice. I'm glad I have very little need for the city any longer and can go to nature on most days. Took a long time.
Denied facts are still facts.
Historically?
Many advantages to cities.
Mutual defense? Availabity of goods and services you could not provide for yourself.
Religious center. Cultural center....
Because of information technology? SOME tasks can be done from nearly anywhere, and people are generally safer (1st world problem?) than at any time in history.....so less incentive to live in the crowd.
Too much is never enough
2. Hay fever.I do love your pics of your place, it's beautiful.
ESPECIALLY... your play room.
The outdoor shots are pretty damn impressive though.
Too.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
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But I'm rather fond of Brookline, our town next to and surrounded by Boston.
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"If you are the owner of a new stereophonic system, this record will play with even more brilliant true-to-life fidelity. In short, you can purchase this record with no fear of its becoming obsolete in the future."
And for those of us who are not retired, maybe a good paying career not found in the country ??
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When you read the history books you often get the impression that people were attracted to the city because they wanted to work 84 hours a week in factories. But in truth changes to agriculture forced many off the land and into the city prior to the industrial revolution.
with cream cheese.
What, no lox?
Denied facts are still facts.
What, no lox?
HELL NO!
Nt.
I don't know why either these days.
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