Quote from: Pica Pica on March 06, 2012, 12:18:45 PM
Give me chimneys and people bustlng around and the laughter of another family in the door next to me and the screech of train breaks and weird exotic food and bowls of veg stacked outside cornershops and kids running around with grandparents calling them and teenagers standing on street corners flirting and the weird tabernacle church ringing with out of tune hymns and the old sofas dumped on the pavements and all the signage and words and images everywhere, and graffitti with more words and images and birds flying amongst it and foxes and cats dodging through it and everywhere the happy, moving, chaotic hub of lives lived. Give me that... and I'm a happy bunny.

This is exactly how I feel.

Quote from: Felix on March 06, 2012, 11:59:39 PM
This is exactly how I feel.

Yea but Alex your a alabama hick who gets high smelling the polution from big city life   

Now me i am from suburbia and i love the smell of dead skunks along the roads and freshly spread cow manure over newly planted corn fields ahhhhhhh breathe deep uhhhhh uuuhhhh that smell can't you smell that smell

Quote from: Amazon D on March 07, 2012, 05:16:01 AM
Yea but Alex your a alabama hick who gets high smelling the polution from big city life   

Now me i am from suburbia and i love the smell of dead skunks along the roads and freshly spread cow manure over newly planted corn fields ahhhhhhh breathe deep uhhhhh uuuhhhh that smell can't you smell that smell

Correction, I'm a north georgia hick. When I was in alabama I only lived in the city.

Some pictures

Quote from: Pica Pica on March 07, 2012, 04:15:40 PM
Some pictures

I can't see linked pictures on this site any more. Idk why.

I visited a friend in the suburbs last week. Beaverton, if any locals are reading this. I got so lost and was so amazed. Everything was far apart, the houses were too big, the yards were too big, the streets weren't gridded out, the buses were ancient and didn't run much, and really the whole situation was terrifying.

Lol I have a very limited skill set.

We're a suburban kind of rural. We have crappy internet service but we're going to have houses up and down this road in a few short years. We live 20 minutes from a liberal island city in the midst of a sea of conservatism. The very conservative town we live near convinced us not to have kids and subject them to that school system. (I'm a woman married to a woman.)

Calgary, Canada.

I mean, out of all of Canada, I think Calgary is one of the most rural urban cities. Why do I still feel like moving to somewhere even more rural? :C

I live in the country...i wanna move

suburban

I suppose I live in a suburb. Not in the smackdap middle of the city but not in the countryside either.

Quote from: Tossu-sama on September 08, 2013, 01:38:37 PM
I suppose I live in a suburb. Not in the smackdap middle of the city but not in the countryside either.

same here

Amy

I live in the middle of flipping nowhere :/

I'm getting scared. I've lived in Portland Oregon for sixish years and we stand out less here than we have anywhere else, but we're still seen as such freaks and I want so badly to be normal.

I thought we'd be alright here. This place is so progressive.

I'm trans and I guess I'm gay but that's only because we define that by gender (I always liked men and as a man that's a different life than as a woman). I had a child at a young age, and it's just the two of us. We're atheists I guess, but that's only a big deal when people think it is. My daughter is half autistic and half ptsd (to greatly simplify it) and very, very loud.

We're not wanted here. People who share any particular attribute don't share the others, and this town isn't big enough to keep word from getting around about any given thing that happens within whatever community (gay, trans, mental health, autism, poverty, liberal activism, etc) and I'm too tired to keep up. I can't do spin and I can't play any part that will be visibly socially acceptable.

Anyway. I'm looking at NYC. I really really want to find a place where I don't stand out so much. Anywhere.

We've been in Portland longer than anywhere else. I've no hope for progress here.

While I'm living in Lansing, MI for school I'm from Detroit.

It doesn't get any more urban that the "D"

I live in a western suburb of Sydney, one which rapidly becoming a second CBD and building lots of high rise apartments. It'll probably be classified as urban in a few more years. Not sure how I feel about that.

I live in a pretty rural/urban type area. I live in Buffalo, which is the second most populous city in New York.

I live in a small townish city somewhere between here, there and nowhere

I live somewhere in the north of the world. Town has under 900 people. I started out in a city of about 400k but I'm no longer even in that country. I like keeping myself more anonymous online, especially here and places like this.

I enjoy being far from any city. It's an hour drive to even reach the nearest cities, and they are very small.

Plus everyone is friendly and you can't drive past someone without them waving.

I live in what I like to call "pseudo-suburbia". We are anywhere from an hour to 45 minutes away from any major city, but they still talk about this town having a "Metro" area, (which it doesn't). It's the typical pocket of rich douchebags that try to make this stupid town look like something more than what it really is. If I could afford to live in an area in a major city that wasn't a dangerous, crime-infested rathole, I would get the hell away from here and never look back. This place is boring, dull and just plain sucks.

I have lived in all of these types of areas, but now, I live in the suburbs again.

I can't complain, I live in a quiet neighborhood, and no one complains even when I have to park my car in the cul-de-sac (the house is also in the cul-de-sac I don't like park in front of someone else's house or anything)