Where Do You Live? (city vs suburb vs town)

[C Reed]

Its allways interesting to me how where people live effect the way they view life, I'm not talking about the difference between people in Kansass and Nabraska, I'm talking bout the difference between people in major cities and small towns.

Share as much as you want.

Poll:
Major City: eg New York, Chicago, LA, London, Berlin, Rome, World
economic cneters

Suburb of a Major City: Suburb of above eg Long Island, Essex, ect

Major Regional City: eg St louis, Boston, Miami, Smaller important cities.

Suburb of major regional city

Regional City: eg. Denver, Kansas City, Nashville, Vegas regional capitals and large centers of population

Suburb of a Regional City

Small City eg. Boulder, State Collage, Richmond small cites and Collage towns

Suburb of a small City

Town: smaller then a city, but still a gathering of people

Rural: farms, shacks in the woods, or if you can't walk to you neighbors.

Military Base/ Research Station/ Oil Rig ect

Other

 

[C Reed]

And I'll start it off.

I live in New York City, a major city, I previously lived in London, and have spent my entire adult live in major cities. I will never leave.

 

[Mr_Amazing]

And I'll start it off.

I live in New York City, a major city, I previously lived in London, and have spent my entire adult live in major cities. I will never leave.

I live in a suburb of a major city. It's far enough away that traffic isn't horrendous, yet close enough that a 20 minute drive will get me in the heart of downtown.

 

[13ALPHA]

North Pole, Alaska ~small town, I love it, grew up in a small town.

14mi from Fairbanks, AK. ~bigger, not huge but the only town for quite a ways.

 

[Gray Wolf]

Pretty quiet where I live, no city lights, at night you can see the Milky Way with your naked eyes. My nearest neighbor is 1/10 of a mile from my front door to his, and that's the guy right across the road!
It's not really remote, only 2 miles to the paved road!
We raise chickens, and grow a large percentage of the food we eat, life is good!

 

[C Reed]

woops just noticed a typo in the poll, can I edit that?

 

[SRock]

I live in Misawa City though I've no doubt that Town better fits the bill.

woops just noticed a typo in the poll, can I edit that?

Was it Suburab? I fixed it for you.

 

[JRichmond]

I live in the middle of nowhere (50miles to the nearest "city"), in wonderful Ft. Polk, LA. I can't wait tomove.

 

[mretzloff]

I voted "Suburb Of A Major Regional City". I live in Matthews, NC which is near Charlotte NC.

 

[82R100]

Suburb of a Major Regional City, that city being Detroit.

While the city itself is taking a pummeling , the metropolitan area is still significant and substantial.

One statistic I've seen more than once states that metro Detroit is home to the largest single concentration of engineers in the country, and I believe it.

Wish me luck on my interview tomorrow.

- Chris

 

[OldSaw]

I should have read all the definitions first. I live in a small city, but marked regional. However, I guess it depends on one's perspective as Green Bay has an NFL team, is the location of the national cheese exchange and is a major player in the world's paper industry.

 

[stobes21]

I'm in a close-in suburb of St. Louis. Right in the middle of the metro area as a whole.

 

[Uncle Erik]

A suburb of Los Angeles, but still in Los Angeles County. The only visible difference between cities around here is that the color of the street signs changes.

 

[texquill]

Just north of Dallas - close enough to enjoy ALL the benefits (art venues, shopping, medical facilities), but insulated from many of the downside attributes (except traffic).

 

[Duamuteffe]

Eating my heart out in an upstairs apartment in a college town. I grew up in the middle of nowhere and loved it, and as soon as we've got the dosh, we'll be looking for a house well outside town with a big backyard, and, gods willing, be adjacent to unoccupied land. I've spent time in cities, major and minor, and while I find them interesting and fun to visit, I wouldn't want to settle down in one.

 

[SalvadorMontenegro]

New York City, as well. Though I live in Brooklyn, which is almost like a suburb, I spend most of my time in Manhattan, so I voted for major city. I believe the appropriate sociological term is "megacity." My teacher would be so proud!

 

[C Reed]

I should have read all the definitions first. I live in a small city, but marked regional. However, I guess it depends on one's perspective as Green Bay has an NFL team, is the location of the national cheese exchange and is a major player in the world's paper industry.

Green Bay would be Regional by my definition, its a 'destination' for people in the local area, but not so much nationally or internationally. That said I have never been there.

 

[C Reed]

The break down (so far) is mostly what I expected, though I think there will be more "small town" later.

Question for the suburbanites:
Did you move to the suburb from the city its a suburb of when you got older, started a family?

 

[C Reed]

New York City, as well. Though I live in Brooklyn, which is almost like a suburb, I spend most of my time in Manhattan, so I voted for major city. I believe the appropriate sociological term is "megacity." My teacher would be so proud!

I would conceder Brooklyn much more citish then Queens or Staten Island which strike me as fairly suburban for the most part (except for Long Island City and a few other hoods in Queens).

For the poll I would say any of the five bourgos are in a major city, cause they are, except for Staten Island, which is just plain weird.

 

[82R100]

I would conceder Brooklyn much more citish then Queens or Staten Island which strike me as fairly suburban for the most part (except for Long Island City and a few other hoods in Queens).

For the poll I would say any of the five bourgos are in a major city, cause they are, except for Staten Island, which is just plain weird.

I didn't see a "just plain weird" category in the poll.