Do you consider yourself more of a city or country person?

Gaer said:
About Olivia Newton John, My late husband dated her seven times, he said. In Nashville, I believe.
He didn't ask her out. She had her "people" ask HIM out! (He was quite tall and handsome)
I asked his opinion of her and he said she was "a fanatic:."
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her people asked him out ?... whaaat ?..... lol she's mistaken herself for royalty then ... :ROFLMAO:
 
At 5 my parents moved us to a small mountain town in Colorado. I went to school there until I was through 8th grade. Then we moved to Colorado Springs where I went to high school, at that time I recall about 250K population. So not gigantic, but big compared to where I grew up. Since I graduated from High School and College I have lived in big towns, like Denver, Memphis, and Kansas City.

My heart is all country, yet my life is big city! We go back to the mountains and rent a cabin for a while every chance I get...
 

Grew up in small towns and felt smothered because everyone knew everyone else's business - often before you actually met them!

Moved to LA in my late teens and fell in love with the extraordinary population diversity, the variety of things to do and people to meet, and yes, the general anonymity afforded by the large population.

I can't imagine myself living anywhere but the suburbs of a large city.
 
I grew up in the suburbs and I loved it at the time. I lived in a wonderful neighborhood, had terrific friends, access to public transportation and never worried about my safety. Subsequent to that, I moved several times, always to suburban areas. Then I moved to a city. I had an apartment in the city, close to my job. I grew to hate it. Too much noise, crime, traffic, pollution, etc. So, I moved to the country which is where I live now and it suits me well. Quiet, low population density, safe and there are some amenities however I do need to travel between 12-25 miles if I need more than the basics. But I don't mind. I love my country life.
 
Gaer said:
Yes, Are you doubting my words? He was a Federal Marshal at the time. She chose him to escort her to events and home and he was asked by her "entourage" to accompany her.
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Not doubting your words at all..Gaer, I've worked in showbiz most of my life as has my husband, and I mean 'television''..I've seen how it all works... I know how it all works. I've met and worked with more well known people than you can probably think of in the next hour.... Even my own husband who is well known in TV and film production has been asked for by famous celebrities females AND Males ... what I'm saying is that usually how it works is, that if a Celebrity sends someone else to ask for a 'date' it's usually a Bed date.. .. if they ask for someone to accompany them more than once, it's usually just a good looking security guard..but no romance.
 
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hollydolly said:
Not doubting your words at all..Gaer, I've worked in showbiz most of my life as has my husband, and I mean 'television''..I've seen how it all works... I know how it all works. I've met and worked with more well known people than you can probably think of in the next hour.... Even my own husband who is well known in TV and film production has been asked for by famous celebrities females AND Males ... what I'm saying is that usually how it works is, that if a Celebrity sends someone else to ask for a 'date' it's usually a Bed date.. .. if they ask for someone to accompany them more than once, it's usually just a good looking security guard..but no romance.
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No, All on the up and up. No romance. He said the only thing they ever talked about was her intense hatred for drunk drivers.
I think she chose him as a good looking "security guard" acting as her "date".
 
Definitely a country boy here. I also enjoy visiting large city's for a few days to a week depending on the attractions, and prefer to be in the heart of downtown when I'm there. To me, the suburbs are the last place I would want to live, though many obviously like it. Took the dog out this morning at four am, and I could see the whole Milky Way, and hear absolutely nothing except a few coyotes in the distance. Just heaven to me, but to each their own.
 
I'm not sure what I am. I grew up in suburbia, but most of the houses we lived in had big yards and we'd have a huge garden, trees to climb, fruit trees, berry bushes, even a baseball diamond when we had a two acre yard, etc., so I got plenty of outdoor time. And at least a few times a year we'd visit relatives in small country towns and farms so I got exposure to horridly boring small town life and some fun contact with farm animals (collecting eggs, milking a cow (riding it too), cautiously staring at a bull, leading a calf on a rope, etc).

Then college age was a mixed bag from a smallish Texas town (the town was super boring but was living with my boyfriend and that was fun), to a kibbutz in Israel, to living in a city high rise apartment in Washington DC suburbs where I didn't even need to go outdoors to go from the apartment in Virginia until I came out of the metro (subway) at the college campus in DC. I loved that apartment life.

Early career years was in apartment complexes that I guess looking back I didn't really like but I'd spend all my free time at horse stables and riding through woods and fields. For several years I lived in a teensy apartment in two houses that had been connected and divided into 6 apartments, but were surrounded by a 100 acre island of rural-zoned properties that had horses, pigs, a goat and chickens. But this little island of country was encircled by a very busy crowded built up area (tall business buildings and strip-malls on one side, mature suburb and new suburb on a couple sides, and Goddard Space Flight Center on one end).

Then for the past 22 years I've lived on small acreage in the country (10 years in Colorado and 12 years in Nebraska). I enjoyed being in the country while my parents (and then just Mom) was alive and my daughter was at home. I still enjoy being surrounded by fields and I love watching the birds come to my feeders and birdbath. But I am otherwise becoming very unhappy all alone in the country. I've let all the animals grow old and die (except one young horse I sold). I feel too tired and old for barn projects or maintenance. Over the past twelve years I've become fearful of machinery (tractors, chainsaws, etc).

I don't know what I am now, I keep thinking longingly of that apartment high-rise. I would love to live somewhere that was within a pizza delivery area. But I probably need to pick a place to live that has a park or something because I want to be around nature too. Pretty sure never want suburbia again tho.
 
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