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justatransgirl
03-09-2008, 10:31 AM
Here's a poll that may have been done before but it's time for an update because I'm curious.

How many of us here live in cities vs living in rural areas?

State if you are a girl or guy and country or city center or suburb and if you like it or not.

Me, t-girl.

Core city - San Diego. I live near Mission Bay 5 minutes from downtown. That's what I love about the city. I can see the fireworks at Sea World and still get downtown without traffic anytime. I can be at the beach in 5 minutes, La Jolla in 10, Tijuana in 20, and Trader Joe's and Whole Foods deli market in 2 minutes and there's at least 500 restrauants within 3 miles.

I like the city, but would enjoy having a retreat in the moutains someplace by a stream where I could listen to the water and wind in the leaves. Maybe someday.

Hugs,
TS Jamie :-)

Wombat
03-09-2008, 12:32 PM
Ex country boy, now living in the city. Sydney, in a suburb called Potts Point. I am looking to move to the west of the city, put a bid in on a penthouse apartment.

Like the area I'm in, but it is a bit expensive. It is on the fringe of the city, takes me 30 minutes to walk to work (right in the Sydney CBD).

Guess I have best of both worlds, I have 6 acres out in the bush with an old stone house on the property. I go down there when the city gets too much.

The view from my study below, looking east toward Sydney Heads.

JohnnyWalkerBlackLabel
03-09-2008, 12:44 PM
Whatchu talkin bout Willis?!?

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slinky
03-09-2008, 02:14 PM
I wish they grew on trees

bucatini70
03-09-2008, 03:01 PM
I'm a guy live in Bangkok maybe on the worst road of many in Bangkok takes me forever to get anywhere...but i love everything else here i can do anything at anytime when i need to relax there is great beach not more than 3 hours away

BeardedOne
03-09-2008, 03:37 PM
Country here, as I tired of the city a long time ago. Unfortunately, the old adage of 'You can run, but you can't hide' is so true here. The ideal location of being an hour from Philadelphia or Baltimore and two hours from NYC and DC have made this one of the fastest growing areas in the region. I moved five miles further into the farmland just eight years ago when traffic began to get impossible and the damned stuff followed me down here.

The photo below is of my backyard and was taken in 1997, three years before I arrived. The field at the right-center was already full of houses when I moved (You can see the construction has already begun in the photo). The field left-center, next to the highway, developed in 2002. The larger fields, top center and to the right are currently under development. A farm off the pic to the left landed 125 McMansions in 2004 and the field in the upper left, just beyond the bridge is already in subdivision for 179 new homes.

Within a few minnits drive in any direction we've gained about 50,000 new homes, four new schools, a new library, two new high schools, six new fire halls, two new police stations/barracks (And two new police departments now looking for homes), three Wally-Marts, three Home Despots, three Loewes, and more new strip malls and pad sites than I care to count.

A town just below the bridge recently annexed thousands of acres of farmland in a controversial plan to expand the town boundaries. Having seen the writing on the wall, they see those acres becoming taxable residential and commercial land within the decade.

Wyoming is beginning to look real good to me.

Willie Escalade
03-09-2008, 03:39 PM
I live in the South Bay area of Los Angeles County...near Long Beach in fact.

mischelle
03-09-2008, 05:00 PM
*s*

cockgobbler
03-09-2008, 07:09 PM
I fortunatly have the best of both.

I'm a guy born and raised living in Toronto, Canada, but also have a lakefront cottage in the country.

StaggerLee
03-09-2008, 07:24 PM
Suburbs here, fairly quiet area-but only 90 minutes from Boston and NYC, so that helps.

CORVETTEDUDE
03-09-2008, 07:25 PM
I live in the western subs of Denver. I like having the convenience of all the amenities the city affers. But, very quickly, I can be at 10,000 feet, in the Rockies if I want to get away.

I'm a guy, and yes, I drive a Vette, when the weather permits.

I do miss the San Diego area, however. Great place!!!

dgtlmstry
03-09-2008, 07:36 PM
City boy here. Born in NYC, raised in MIA, and now living in Berlin, Germany. I live in one of the more trendier parts of what used to be East Berlin. It is called Prenzlauer Berg.

I love it here, there really isn't much more that I can say.

TsJennifer
03-10-2008, 12:50 AM
NYC the best city on earth!

Yoda Rules!
03-10-2008, 01:31 AM
NYC is the place to be! The hottest TS girls in the world live here.

bulldog
03-10-2008, 01:49 AM
born and raised country, but now live downtown in the city. I really miss the wide open spaces :cry: , being able to take long walks in the forest, able to go hunting and fishing in your own backyard, ATVing, eating freshly grown vegtables and fruits grown right in your backyard, oh and sitting outside at nite enjoying a fire and listening to the sounds of the night.

Ben

OEMEnemyNum1
03-10-2008, 04:16 AM
Country all the way. I'm a guy living on a little ranch out in Eastern Idaho.

Ecstatic
03-10-2008, 06:06 AM
Small city, pop. 39,000, 45 minutes west of Boston and bumped up against conservation land. Grew up in the country, in mid-coast Maine.

Hey 'Vette, I went to grad school at CSU in Fort Collins 25 years ago. At that time, Fort Collins had a population of about 65,000 and there were miles and miles of largely unpopulated unincorporated Larimer County all around (in fact I actually lived about half a mile outside the city limits). Today, the city boasts twice that population, and it's growing at the rate of 3% per year. I love Colorado, but I wonder what's becoming of it.

nylonleglover
05-07-2008, 09:53 PM
Raised in the city, summers in the sticks all back east, and now in a small town out in the wild west known as LA with a few feisty neighbors...

artjangler
05-24-2008, 04:55 PM
I am a guy City: Denver, CO. USA. But I grew up in rural areas of Michigan.

Best City I lived in was Miami and Fort Lauderdale, FL