Are you one of them thar city slickers, or are ya a country bumpkin?

I'm slick, but I no longer live in the city. I lived in the city until I was ten years old. Then we moved to the suburbs. My mother's business was in the city, and many of my relatives lived there, so I was often there. When my husband and I married, we moved to the country. Since then, the "country" has become more suburban, with homes being built in the area. Now it's country...ish.

I love the city and all it has to offer, but I wouldn't want to move back. It's too crowded, noisy, and expensive. I can visit whenever I want to, and that's fine for me.
 

I was born ,raised&still live in Buffalo, right in here in the city
When my siblings&I were growing up, we always looked forward to our summer vacations going to VT/NH, renting a cottage on the lake. It was peaceful, always recharged me. Whenever I visited my parents at their retired community at Kendall in Hanover, NH it was lovely not to hear the city noises,rather hear the birds chirping. My mom used to say 'I rather look at the mountain then hear sirens on our street' I swear everytime when I came back from a visit, a siren could be heard welcoming me back to hustle/ bustle of city life LOL!
 
Nemo2 said:
‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.’

‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean different things–that’s all.’

‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master–that’s all’

Lewis Carroll. 😉
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One of our granddaughters is named Alice. One night, when she was about 6, she wandered into her parent's bedroom and asked "Why do we have to use other people's words, why can't we make up our own?"
 

I grew up in a rural area of NJ (Yes, NJ has/had rural areas) with lots of dairy farms. All those farms are now gone, replaced
with housing developments and strip malls. I appreciate the country but now prefer to live in the suburbs with occasional
visits to big cities. I guess that means I'm in between a country bumpkin and city slicker.
 
Trish said:
Cities are more congested than rural areas so pollution is higher but I have never experienced washing grime off my face and hands and I am a bit OCD about skincare.
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I know cities have higher pollution, I was born and grew up in the city... but London.. does seem to be particualrly dirty altho' not necessarily evident when you're in the city.. it could also be all the tube stations too.. but whatever it is, I do notice it when I wash when I get home..
 
perChance said:
One of our granddaughters is named Alice. One night, when she was about 6, she wandered into her parent's bedroom and asked "Why do we have to use other people's words, why can't we make up our own?"
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Your granddaughter, Alice, sounds incredibly intelligent!
Hope you told her she "could" make up her own words!
Shakespeare had a HUGE vocabulary!
I think Alice will do wonderous things!
 
I was born in the city, but raised in country. It wasn't till I was 10 they built the Jr high. We had maybe 450 in Jr high, 600 high school.

When I moved to Iowa, oh the closeness of the place was wonderful. My small town Aloha, OR. Was 5,000 The city of Washington, IA was so laid back, about 10,000, I went back in time to 1980 it seemed.

No one locking cars, "Yes Ma'am, Yes Sir" was common as well as "Thank you" and they meant it.
 
Gaer said:
Your granddaughter, Alice, sounds incredibly intelligent!
Hope you told her she "could" make up her own words!
Shakespeare had a HUGE vocabulary!
I think Alice will do wonderous things!
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One time I was visiting she was speaking in her 'own words - it really sounded like a language too. She would calmly say something and then tell her older sister and her twin sister what it meant. She is very entertaining :)

My husband always says "I warned you about her". She used to sit on his lap when she was a baby - absorbing everything.
 
hollydolly said:
Doesn't look suburban at all in these photos... :D
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Just our block on our side is warehouses because the Santa Fe railroad used to pass along our back fence and our little cracker box was built as a lean-to up against a much larger brick warehouse. When the Santa Fe went extinct a city park replaced it and the creek was daylighted where it passes through the park. As a result we have a pretty green backdrop and no near neighbors on our side of the creek.

More good luck: the brick building which towered over us which we worried might bury us in an earthquake burned down the summer of 95 while we were hiking in West Clear creek in Arizona. The metal beams which held up its roof got so hot they sagged. A fireman told me it was the largest fire he’d ever seen in our city. The flames went straight up twice the height of the brick building before becoming a cloud of smoke. Our insurance gave us a new wall where we’d been attached to the brick building, the most solid part of our place. In 83, the year we got together I was working on replacing our leaking roof. When permits held us up I and the guy I hired to help me put up walls against the brick walls to keep them from crumbling in on us in an earthquake. We put plywood on the side facing the brick and Sheetrock over that in case of fire. The fireman said that was the only thing that kept our little cracker box from burning up too. That was the summer before my wife’s big show at the Oakland museum and all her work for the show was near that wall. I suspect we’ve used up all the luck we ever expect to see.
 
I'm a suburbanite too but live close to both big cities and rural areas. At my age, I do like the rural areas for their picturesque beauty. They make great photographs.
 
Kind of a mix of suburbanite, small town and country including an actual farm - from Detroit, Michigan to Phoenix., New York. I have been here since 1978 when it was outside the city limits. It has since been annexed by the city so now I'm a suburbanite. I even got to realize my life long dream of having my own horses - a Morgan mom and soon her foal and two Arabians - for several years before the divorce and moving here.
 
I grew up in the country on a farm and then to college and then 30 years in the military, which placed me in a lot of cities or near cities, so I am mainly a city man. I enjoy the city, yet I still long for the days of being back on the farm with my grandparents.
 

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