country bumpkins vs. city slickers
 

in this thread we discuss the merits of urban areas vs. rural ones.

well you have all heard me say many times how much i hate living in NYC. and i am still planning to leave here ASAP. but after over a year in a major city i have to concede that there are a few ways in which cities are pretty good.

1. barbers. i get pretty basic haircuts and the barbers in the hood are great. i get a lot more attention to detail for my twelve bucks than i would at some place in a strip mall. if you are the salon-going type disregard this i guess, but for those of us who don't carry man-purses, going to barbershops where you are the only white person in the room is generally +EV, especially for beard trimming.

2. not having to drive home after a night of heavy drinking.

3. drop-off laundry service. it's a lot easier to get an apartment or house with washer/dryer in a more rural area, but if you can't, you can pretty much bet there's a place or two on your block in NYC that will wash and fold your laundry for not much more than it would cost to do it yourself. huge timesaver. laundromats are sometimes a lot farther away when you live in the sticks and they may not have drop-off. if they do it's probably expensive.

i am still a country boy for life, but ok NYC, you can cut my hair and wash my underwear for me.

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I have a convenience store on either side of my apartment building, it's amazing.

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it'd be a lot easier to list the things about rural regions thats better.


plenty of livestock to sex

inbred populations means if you can blink you are an 8+

more churches than restaurants, gas stations and grocery stores combined.

you can say the N word all you want without getting knocked out.

women were all molested by uncles and have emotional issues so they are very easy to score with.

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things i like better about living in a city

5 minutes from my house in each direction (off the top of my head) is a total of about 70 restaurants, 10 7/11's and two grocery stores.

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kkf,

i work with little kids in the city, they are just as likely if not more so to be molested here. so scratch that one off your list i guess. plus there are so many hot women in big cities that they are easier to score with because they are no longer special.

things that i actually prefer about rural regions:

--better air quality, ample trees and all that kind of hippie crap
--those of us who are not ballers can actually afford to live somewhere nice
--people are nicer and less likely to kill you for your shoes
--just about everything is cheaper
--no terrorists are going to blow up a town with pop <100000 unless it is in israel or something

and many others

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things i like better about living in a city

5 minutes from my house in each direction (off the top of my head) is a total of about 70 restaurants, 10 7/11's and two grocery stores.

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i think this is a legit reason, but i am poor and there isn't a decent grocery store within 40 blocks of me. even worse for my girlfriend who likes to shop organic and all that. same for banks, restaurants, etc. really my only options are chinese food and overpriced convenience store beer. oh and mofongo obv

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--no terrorists are going to blow up a town with pop <100000 unless it is in israel or something

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this is not true. there are several reasons why terrorists would strike small towns.

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WTF, NT, I thought you played like 50-100 PLO and the social work [censored] was just what you did to keep up appearances.

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--no terrorists are going to blow up a town with pop <100000 unless it is in israel or something

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this is not true. there are several reasons why terrorists would strike small towns.

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well this is a whole other debate, but in general it doesn't seem like they are actually picking up on this strategy, based on the last 50 years or so as evidence.

really the only terrorists you have to worry about in small towns are the crazy white people variety.

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WTF, NT, I thought you played like 50-100 PLO and the social work [censored] was just what you did to keep up appearances.

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sat in a 100/200 hi-lo game != able to beat that game