To miss Urban life?

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The culture, the diversity, the speed, the men. Currently live in perfectly pleasant but dull small town. Aiming for Bristol. Am v daunted as am a single mum. I have to do it though, not least because the influences here when I was growing up held me back a lot.

Gosh, no, YANBU. I'm an ex-Londoner currently living in a small village in the midlands. Very pretty countryside, thatched cottages, bell ringing, bowls on the village green, quaint pub, pleasant community, zero crime rate, forty times more room than we had in our London mousehole, but I miss London for the cultural life, diversity of people, the energy level. I miss being able to jump on the tube and go to the opera, and buy baklava or fifteen kinds of olives at 3am. We'll be back, though.

Bristol is good - big enough to be interesting yet not overwhelmingly massive.

I'd ideally love to live in Londonbut is too far away from friends and family.

God I loathe London. City's are ok but London is something else. Always rammed with people, question for everything from buying lunch to the escalators on the tube.

Anything worth doing is alway manic and busy. Ugh !no thanks.

Give me a small ish city any day. With countryside surrounding.

Not at all unreasonable. Don't think I will ever stop missing London.

All together, please, and to the tune of the Pastoral Symphony:

The country, the country, the country gets you down -
There's nothing like the country to make you want the town!

The countryside feeds the soul. Walking across fields and through woods.

Cities have parks, but it really isn't the same as the countryside.
I can't even breathe properly in London.

But each to our own.

YANBU. I spent my first 18 years in the countryside and never want to go back. I live in central Edinburgh. There is no where else in Scotland I'd want to live.

I'm a City girl too. I can't imagine not being able to have a choice of everything I want, with easy transport to get there, be that theatre, cinema, shops, takeaways, hospitals, pubs, method of transport, swimming baths, football teams, choirs, clubs, colleges, etc.etc.etc.

Bristol is a wonderful place to live. I'd suffocate if i had to live in a small town or countryside. Even suburbs i find lifeless.

Yanbu. I would soon become deeply depressed if I had to live in the countryside.

Different strokes for different folks an dat.

How do you aim to get to Bristol op? Sounds exciting!

I couldn't possibly bear to live in a city or even a town.
I adore village life. We live in a very small village in rural Norfolk. The air is like wine, the views breathtaking (fields and farms, trees and rivers) and no street lights so the night is completely dark and silent. Lots of wildlife too.
But there are loads of groups, activities and social life. We're like one big family here.
I suppose it may not suit youngsters though.
I'm sure I'd slowly die if forced to live in a city.

Ooh no couldn't live in the country or small town, feeling your pain OP. What's your plan? Hope you make it back into the big smoke!

Just moved from London to the Surrey countryside, still only 35 mins to waterloo but fields opposivmte our house. Miss all the facilities to be honest bit don't miss living in a flat with no parking, outside space or noise insulation! Maybe you went too extreme?

YANBU
I miss urban life too. Theatres. Galleries. Restaurants. People with ambition and brain cells.

We are stuck in the arse end of nowhere with grass growing down the middle of our lane.
Sick to death of the petty mindedness and casual bigotry of "simple country folk" and all the nosey fuckers who live in our village.

Love the countryside and wildlife but the people ruin it.

Everyone's different, but I would rather not go back to the pollution and lack of space.

Funny how different it is. The energy and the city is life to me. In the same way the country is to others posting.

I would struggle to feel good in the country.

o gosh. PLEASE swap with me then!

Im LONGING for a peaceful open fresh air QUIET boring dull country type life and place to live!

seriously.

My inlaws live in a very rural village (no shop, one bus per day to nearest town about 10 miles away). Dfil was born there, dmil moved there when they got married at 16 .

Its a large village and they know every single person who lives there, all the people who lived in each individual house before, and probably from the generation before that. They have constant falling-ins and outs with other people in the village and we can never keep up. None of their relatives live in the village so they have to drive if they want to village (most of them live within a 10 mile radius, so they can drive easily enough but not walk).

They go to the big town once or twice per month. They get snowed or flooded in every winter, have no mains gas, their weekend silence is disrupted by the noise of agricultural machinery or pheasant shooting.

WHAT IS THE ATTRACTION???

I am a country boy through and through. I'm sooooo glad that so many people seem to love cities, after all if you all decide to move to the country you'll ruin it!

I moved from London to the middle of nowhere. No buses etc .but am happy. Couldn't have e life I have in the city. Easy job, no traffic, safe.

No, perfectly understandable. I prefer to visit these days though. Love its upsides but HATE the crowds/hassle/rudeness/expense. A day's my limit. Can see trees, rooftops, old walls here.. Can hear owls, churchbells. And yes, pheasant-shooting.

People with brain cells??? How rude and inaccurate.

I live in the countryside and I adore it but I still have moments of longing for town life. I enjoy it a great deal when I visit relatives in London. But I wouldn't swap my solitude and space for it.

We occasionally go on old folks' coach trips up to London for the day. It's interesting, but we always feel completely overwhelmed by the noise, the traffic and the crowds. People's faces seem set in expressionless stone, and no-one smiles even if you smile at them. We also feel a bit scared of pickpockets; London seems dangerous to us. When we get home, our throats are sore due to the pollution. No, it's definitely rural life for us.

(We have no bus at all, a small shop but no Post Office,
no mobile phone signal and only 0.5 megabyte thingies of Broadband!)

How do you manage to MN, Spiders?!