City or country?

[helliebobs]

Do you prefer to live in a big busy city or do you enjoy the peace and tranquility of the country? I've spent most of my adult life living in the city (ok, large town) and I've recently moved back to the small village where I grew up to live with my parents, and I hate it! There's nothing to do, everyone knows your business and it's full of people I went to school with who have never moved on and still think a great night out is going to the same local pub they went to when we were young! Where would you prefer to live? :)

[Oakleaf51]

Village, or anywhere quiet, and away from the yobbish element, the druggies, the plonkies and the plonkers. But ... alas .... I don't.

[sleepy1]

i live in a village same village all my life . your right about everyone knowing your business village gossip really p me off . i dont think i could live in a town . but would be happy to move to another village some day . when i was a growing up i hated living here . nothing to do only a bus 4 times a day last bus is 6 .30 at night . but i passed my driving test at 17 so its not a problem now . we do have 3 pubs , 1 shop , 1 school . thats about it .

[Joe_the_Lion]

Being brought up in London and now retired to the country, I would opt for the country anyday of the week.

[sleepy1]

oh yes and a few village idiot .

[bigmamma]

Hi helliebobs :-)
I couldn't live out in the sticks . I need to be within a short distance of a multi - level indoor shopping mall , a large superstore , and a hospital . :-)

[wiggal]

I would love to live in the country, with huge fields and a giant garden, and a little local pub, :)

[nursecarla]

Hi Helliebobs! i have lived in the country all my life and i love the peace and quiet, i suppose its what you are used to xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Roughquest]

Peace and tranquility of the country for me ideally.

[Oakleaf51]

Joe The Lion - That'd be a great name for a pub! Are you a pub?

[helliebobs]

Ok so I'm being a bit overdramatic and I don't live completely in the sticks but I miss being able to pop into town and wander round the shops or having a hot chocolate in my favourite cafe or going to a decent sized branch of HSBC where I can actually wheel my son's pram in the doorway rather than have to lug it up the steps (don't ask). I prefer the city because my village has that small town mentality which is far worse than the people you get in the city - at least in the city you get a bit of variety.
Still, I would kill to have Carla's garden - Hello you!! :)

[megan07]

Hi helliebobs i live in newcastle upon tyne, but given the chance i would love to live in the country.
Love megan. xx

[sleepy1]

and it also helps me being the village bike . lol

[nursecarla]

How is that little angel of yours? :)))) xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Joe_the_Lion]

Sadly it is not a pub.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_The_Lion

[helliebobs]

Carla, he is great thank you, get your brother to show you a picture of him if he's still got it :)

[Rubyrose]

I live in a medium sized town and I really don't mind it. I can go out every Saturday and see a million people I know. Not a day goes by where I don't bump into someone I know but at the same time it's not like everyone knows my business and it's definately not a village! Way to huge for that!

[Oakleaf51]

J T L - My commiserations, ( if that how you spell it), as I'm sure you would have made a wonderful pub, cask ales, skittles, busty blonde barmaids, pipe tobacco, Oakleaf tables, the contented murmur and chortle of the Englishman at his best. But ... I dream on ...

[Joe_the_Lion]

You have just described my local. Thankfully though, there will be no more pipe smoke come July 1st.

However, my Grandfather used to smoke a pipe and it actually smelled lovely. apple and cinnamon was his favourite. He lived til 88, so it did him no harm I suppose.

[nursecarla]

I have seen it and he is gorgeous!! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

[Oakleaf51]

J T L - Save our pubs! Tobacco smoke as well. It's as English as ... as ... er ... well there's not that much left these days that is bloody English is there? Unless asylum seekers have a particular fondness for best bitter and PORK scratchings!