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Getting To Know You – Are you a beach, country or city person?
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18 Responses to Getting To Know You – Are you a beach, country or city person?
I think I feel most at home in the city. I was raised there so it’s what I know.
That said, there are plenty of advantages to getting away from the city for a while. Despite being a city girl, I actually hate crowds and noise. Go figure. I love the idea of spending a quiet weekend at a country cabin.
The beach? It certainly has appeal, although realistically, beach living is usually enjoyed by those in a much higher income bracket than myself.
It’s nice to dream about, however.
I guess like many things in life, I see the appeal in all three, but I know myself well enough to know I will probably always live at least within a short driving distance to the city.
Currently I’m a country girl I guess, not big country, but small town county. I was just in Pittsburg yesterday and know I could never been a city, city girl. The traffic would push me over the edge…lol. I’d surely have to have a loft with a roof garden and everything in walking distance.
I’d love to live on the beach and hubby and I plan to do so when the kids finish college (if we have a dime left).
I grew up in the country and lived there until I left for college. Even then, my college town only had 50,000 people. When I was in college, I swore I would never live in the town the size of the Madison, Wisconsin (200,000) and here I am living in Los Angeles. I have lived here for 29 years.
I am a country girl most definitely and my husband and I will be retiring back to Wisconsin ( we hope). Although I have learned to adapt to this city, I have never really felt home here. There have also been so many changes in the last 29 years and I really do want out.
I enjoyed the beach somewhat when I was young. Not so much anymore. I know I would not want to live on or near the beach. Give me the country or the mountains any day.
To me, beaches are for vacation. As much I love them, I can’t ever picture myself living near the ocean. I grew up in the suburbs of the city and then lived in the city for many years. It was great while it was nice. I loved working in the city but over the years it began deteriorate and then get downright scary. I am out in the sticks and trying to get used to clean air. I love it. I can see the stars at night, there’s never any sirens, the gunfire I hear is people target practicing far away. It’s so quiet and pretty. The other day I had to stop as 3 deer went across the road (terrified that we were going to see one get splatted by an oncoming truck). They got across fine. We see them quite a bit. I would be sad if I had to go back to the noise. I can’t get enough of the quiet nights.
I was raised in the suburbs of a mid-cized city and I moved out to the country. If I move again, I’d prefer ten acres in the woods. I’d love to have a state park or gamelands next door. Today I spent a lovely fall day burning leaves and cleaning the garden. I’m a country girl.
Country girl. Love beaches for vacations.
Well, I grew up living within a five-minute drive to the beach, so it’s never seemed very exotic to me. Typical “grass is always greener” syndrome, I LOVE the mountains (the Rockies).
Thanks to a combo of college, a military lifestyle (no longer), jobs and family responsibilities, we’ve lived on both coasts (loved San Diego!) and in Colorado and Kentucky. And, although, I adore the *feel* of Colorado, having to work in a winter climate became a hassle and worrisome (a colleague of mine slipped on the ice outside the courthouse one winter, hurt her hand and couldn’t work for six months).
Kentucky was one of my small town living experiences. While I loved the atmosphere and the schools, I had to travel quite a bit to be able to make a living and I REALLY missed the shopping conveniences and restaurant variety of a larger city.
Oddly enough, being back by the ocean, I’ve been struck with how intimate the beach-living communities seem. Everything is close enough to walk to, casual and the breeze is always blowing (something that dies down quite a bit as you go inland). It feels much more laid back than the rest of the city, and it’s just across the causeway. It was the same in California, the difference between beach living and suburbia.
So, basically, I’d love to live in the mountain country, but be close enough to a large city for shopping, culture, airport access and restaurants. One day I hope to strike that balance.
I thought I was a city girl until I lived in the big city(San Jose, CA) but I loved living in Halifax, NS. That was a great city to live in and miss it terribly. I grew up in a small town and looking back now I would love to go back to that feel. Never was a beach girl and the thought of sand everywhere doesn’t appeal to me. I’m in the suburbs now and it’s okay for the convenience of everything is around the corner I’m still that country girl at heart.
I live in Pittsburgh and have all my life but mydream is to move to San Diego County. I love the coastline, but would probably live inland a little. Traffic on the 5 a nightmare though. I’ve done it several times but it scares me.
I live on the coast so the beach is (almost) in my backyard. But I’m from the mountains so I don’t take that for granted (yet). The ocean is beautiful and I would love to have a beach house!
I grew up in the country- now I live in a midsize city. Not city-city but it’s a large town and we have everything we need no more than 2 minutes away. I’m really spoiled to that and I never want to go back!
I think I would like to live in the city- or at least have a second home there
I would also want to be walking distance from everything. Thats not asking too much is it?
I’ve lived all my life in the suburbs, and now I’m just 20 miles away from a large city (not subway large, but symphony, NFL, NHL large). I’ve always had a lot of grass to mow and plenty of room for a vegetable garden, so I guess that’s country.
Thanks to parents who believed in vacations and were generous enough to continue inviting their adult children along each year, I’ve enjoyed a beach vacation every year from childhood through 2008. If money were no object, I’d have a small oceanfront home, maybe in “arrogantly shabby” Pawley’s Island, S.C., where those vacations occurred. (Money would have to be no object to afford that mortgage and the hurricane insurance!)
The thought of a cabin in the woods, with hiking trails and access to a lake or river for boating and canoeing would be great, too! That second home idea sounds good, Samantha
sorry about that…composed offline then cut and paste…never again!
I live in the country now and at 29 I kind of wish I lived in the city, but I think deep down I’m a country girl at heart. I would like to be near enough a city to be able to grocery shop (better options) and for malls (the Columbus, OH malls are awesome) but still have a lot of room between myself and the neighbors. I absolutely love that when I take the dogs out in the morning how quiet it is.
Definitely a city girl. I like the idea of having a beach house to get away to, close enough to see the waves come in (I could watch that all day), but far enough away that I didn’t have too smell too much of a beachy fish smell. I hate that smell.
As for the country, nature makes me nervous. I like to look at….trees and stuff, every once in a while, but I’m scared of bugs and wild animals and I read In Cold Blood years ago and internalized the message that if you live in an isolated farmhouse, you are DOOMED to be slaughtered.
I like to be near shopping opportunities and people. People who I will not speak to, because we don’t talk to each other in cities the way they do in smaller towns, but it makes me feel better just to know that they are around.
I am definitely a country girl. I grew up in a small town in NW Ohio and moved to a suburb of the “big” city of Toledo. I could never live in a large city w/commuting problems ect. I enjoy drives in the country, Amish country, upper michigan in the fall for the changing of the color of leaves, and I even enjoy horseback riding (which I took up 4 years ago at the spry age of 50). My first riding experience was a hot, muggy June day whereas I had to groom, saddle the horse before even thinking about riding, then after riding do it again. I had sweaty dirt in cracks i didn’t know I had. He! he! But again, riding in the fall in woods, riding in fresh falling snow is a great way to spend an afternoon. So I am a country girl.
Jennie-
This made me laugh bc I relate.
As for the country, nature makes me nervous.
Where I grew up it isn’t unusual to hear or see a mountain lion or bear in the woods surrounding my parent’s home.
I like the suburbs just fine.
And Jennie, this made ME laugh:
and I read In Cold Blood years ago and internalized the message that if you live in an isolated farmhouse, you are DOOMED to be slaughtered.
BMBMGoBlue, I have considered taking up riding horses myself. I wish it weren’t so expensive for lessons (and then there is the “sweaty dirt in cracks” thing, too.
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I grew up in a very small town but now I live in the suburbs of a medium size city, we have beaches within 20 miles our home.
I like where we live now, we are close enough to the city (15 mins.), to go everyday if we need to but far enough away to not deal with all the traffic.