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Why do people want to move to the city so badly
12 year old female. I live in the suburbs, but it's like right outside NYC. I've been to the city many times before. I haven't had much experience with rural areas but the more rural places I have been are so much better! There isn't any intensely loud noises from traffic, you can see the stars at night unlike here where the city's building lights and advertisements outshine them so you can only see the moon, planes and a few stars, there's animals other than squirrels, dogs, cats, pigeons and ducks, lots of diffirent plants, and trees, along with a lot of cool geographical features like rivers, lakes, hills. Yet people who live in rural areas want to go to the city and complain about where they are living. Why?
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It probably has everything to do with the commute they face from rural areas that are far from the city by car and or having to use multiple buses/train combinations to get in to NYC from where they are.
Each day a person might have to make that trek twice through traffic or on buses, trains and subways that takes several hours hence they want to live in the city. Deep down they really don't want to lose the peace and solitude they have when home in a rural area even though commuting is a pain in their ass. It doesn't matter where people live they all seem to have things they don't like but the good outweighs the bad so they stay put.
Also, if they like concerts, plays, sporting events, festivals, movies etc. and all of this is downtown and it takes a long time to get to and back they may like the proximity of the city better and lament they can't have both worlds.
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This is one thing that seems to apply to the majority of humans, not all though. There are plusses and minus's to living in both area's, rural or big city. It's when one persons benefits about one area become the very reason others find the same reasons a problem that people make a move.
Sometimes it more of fairy tale thinking, that the grass (or situation) is always greener (better) on the other side of the fence. When people haven't really given any thought or hammered out the details in their mind, that we tend to make a quick snap decision to go somewhere we haven't been before simply cus we are bored and want a change of life. That is not the best reason to move,, even from a rural setting to a big noisy dirty, crowded city. Often if not thought out well before, we can find we have only traded one set of problems for another and the new set is worse personally than the last set.
I'm with you, rural living is my preference. The biggest problem is being able to find a way to sustain yourself out there. Too many can't find work rural and must then travel into the city.
Or the elderly who need a hospital or Dr. nearby do not want to have to travel 2 hours just to see a Dr. The last drawback I heard from living extremely rural for 2 years, is that there is no choices for shopping, you are stuck with the local Mom and Pop grocery and have to order all your clothes, furniture and such out of catalogs and delivered. It takes special people who can live both the rural life or the city life. I want rural but major roads close enough so I can get to a store or Dr in about 1/2 hr. 45 min. tops.
You'll have to bide your time dear until you're an adult and can choose where to go. In the meanwhile, perhaps you can talk to the parents about sending you each summer to summer camp someplace rural. Once you get to be an older teen, you might still go but as a camp helper or counselor.
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