I've learned my percentages...

CinnamonSugar

CinnamonSugar

A Quiet American
having lived x30+ yrs in a rural area with few cultural opportunities, I thought I would relish being in the big city where I could attend ballet/symphony/plays and visit museums when I started being a travel nurse. I found the pressures of city living, however, got to me: no parking, traffic, poverty, homelessness, etc etc. I was glad to get to a more rural area again. Still want cultural choice near enough to enjoy but I find I need the softness and peace of the country side for at least my day/driving.

So I figure I'm 70% country and 30% city.

What are your percentages and why? Look forward to hearing from you! =)
 

I moved 2yrs ago to rural settings -lack of stores' no fancy shoe shops for miles ' one village store
apart from the loss of trying to buy something - its great spring and summer pretty fields ' lovely wild life ect '
so I will give / suburbs 80% and rural 20%(y)
 
85% city 15% country, and most of the latter is driving through it. I'm a city rat all the way. We live 10 min from a chain of state parks, with 360-degree views from the hills that's almost 40 miles long running north/south. In the other direction we're 15 min away from the beach if we turn left or San Francisco Bay looking out towards the Golden Gate Bridge if we turn to the right.

Not that I need views, I have a set of windows 24' long and 12' high on our back wall, giving a 180-degree view Eastwards. Love being in the city but needing no curtains, seeing trees instead of people, and sun/moon rises as they come up over the hills. Every day it looks different outside.

Right now the high winds are stripping the dying leaves off the silver maple, so our backyard is piled high with them! Can't rake them until the winds die down next week.

We're also less 15 min away from our doctor and hospital, which is important to us as we age. Urban conveniences and services are increasingly useful in that regards, too.
 

I'm probably about 80% city and 20% rural/country. The country was in my early years. After high school/college it was all various size city life around the country.
Actually, going back to country living appeals to me these days. And there is a slim possibility that might happen in the next year or so.
 
We're about 90% country, and 10% city. After living/working in cities for 50+ years, we moved to a quiet patch of forest when I retired. We have a nice town 3 miles away with the necessities, and the doctor/dentist/eye clinic, and more stores, are about 15 miles away. About the only downside is that the nearest casino is about 50 miles away....which is probably a good thing.
 
Most interesting, what would you classify a group that ignores geographical mores?

Rednecks carry their identity with them whether living in cities or in the rural,
assimilation might occur, but the core values remain.

We function better in the rural, the city is stiffing, ‘but they got jobs.’

We retain our identity of choice, either the times we found gratifying or bleak, depends on the events that occurred when you were imprinted. Yep, just like a chick.

Ah, well, never mind- just being a smarty britches again
 
jerry r. garner said:
Most interesting, what would you classify a group that ignores geographical mores?

Rednecks carry their identity with them whether living in cities or in the rural,
assimilation might occur, but the core values remain.

We function better in the rural, the city is stiffing, ‘but they got jobs.’

We retain our identity of choice, either the times we found gratifying or bleak, depends on the events that occurred when you were imprinted. Yep, just like a chick.

Ah, well, never mind- just being a smarty britches again
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Ok, talkin' Texas Redneck here, but its been our observation fro good friends if you have a good dog, a good truck , and a good gun, well, life is Good!
 
You just watch, I be reprimanded for taking the OP's post south

Never understood lapdogs, if you dog ain't big enough to take a hunk
out of them that wander on your property, what's he good for?
He gott'a be a boy dog, girl dogs cause problems-puppies.
You say, 'Why don't ya get him cut, HOW you like it if someone carried off your 'privates', huh?

Quit getting drunk well over 40 years ago (damn I'm old!) miss getting drunk.
lying, squalling with them like me.
Miss them as dumb as me, miss chasing 'at' women, never caught one. They
all wanted to marry-Marry! helffire and damntion---Rum!

Us decided, marriage is like them movie stars-a temporary situation.

It be so hard to be proper, I know proper amoun'st my own,\- proper with other folk be difficult.

Almost forgot, Having A Fetching Woman bout the best thing that could ever happen. (There, that ought'a get me run out'a town. and rightly so, I suppose.)
 
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Gary O' said:
Last four years in a cabin we built, off grid, edge of civilization
Now in town

100% anywhere, it turns out

Jus' happy to be

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We do drag ourselves with us, don't we. I done run off and do like they said
I should: school house blab, blab, but always found parts of me lurking around.
Ken Burns doc on Country Music 'Don't forget your raising.'
 

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