What is your ideal size of city to live in?
100k? 500k? A million? Two million? Eight million?
Do you find getting a gf, getting laid, having fun, and meeting friends with common interests easier in a city? Do you prefer rural, small town, mid-sized city, or big city living? Did you go to uni in a big city? A small uni in a small town? How did you like that?
I want to live like ted kaczynski, off the grid
>What is your ideal size of city to live in?
1
>Do you find getting a gf, getting laid, having fun, and meeting friends with common interests easier in a city?
no
>Do you prefer rural, small town, mid-sized city, or big city living?
rural
>Did you go to uni in a big city? A small uni in a small town? How did you like that?
no
wow what a fuckload of questions
medium large
no maybe yes yes only in the metro area
yes maybe yes yes
someyimes someyimes sometimes sometimes
no
yes
ok
I live in a city that's about 750,000 in the city proper and somewhere around 2.5mil including the suburbs
I like it
Honestly only city I'd move to is Boston, maybe San Francisco. But they're both twice as expensive to live in than here
>Do you find getting a gf, getting laid, having fun, and meeting friends with common interests easier in a city?
I'm Korean-American.
I moved from a small town to a big city when I was in middle school.
I went back after I graduated college to help take care of my grandparents and their estate.
The small ass town was 95% white. There were literally no Asians there.
I never had white girls more interested in me than when I was living in that small town.
Being Asian set me apart because all the white dudes were the same white cookie cutter country bumkin. Also being from the city had a much better allure.
I almost miss it desu, but there was so little to do in that shitty town. Only thing to do is drugs and sex.
>What is your ideal size of city to live in?
around 50k
>Do you find getting a gf, getting laid, having fun, and meeting friends with common interests easier in a city?
no
>Do you prefer rural, small town, mid-sized city, or big city living?
small town
>Did you go to uni in a big city? A small uni in a small town?
Big city
>How did you like that?
no
You're a faggot just like I was when I was young and dumb
1 million max but it really has to do with the layout and public transportation.
where are you from?
>I never had white girls more interested in me than when I was living in that small town.
>Being Asian set me apart because all the white dudes were the same white cookie cutter country bumkin. Also being from the city had a much better allure.
that's really weird. i feel like being in a 95% white small town as an asian you would be fucked at finding anyone. city white girls are more liberal and seem more open minded to fucking non-whites. and there's more asian chicks for you in a big city too.
22 million, any less and i begin to feel lonely.
why didnt you like uni in a big city?
care to elaborate?
how much more congested does shit really get at 1m? like LA doesn't look bad but downtown chicago is pretty congested. i've never really been to towns populated 500k-1mish. just some 100k and some 1m+. im from a small town of 20k.
there aren't any cities that big in the USA. where are you from? china?
>why didnt you like uni in a big city?
Too many people and I've social anxiety.
don't you have more in smaller places? people know you better. in big places you're like .000000001% of the people out and about and nobody cares about you.
No, because I don't interact with them. Besides crowds are very unsettling. Even if I try to convince myself, that they don't care about me, I still think that they look down on me.
A town of 20,000-50,000 is comfy.
1,000,000-1,500,000 is ideal city size.
Anything bigger than that had better be Tokyo-tier or I'm going to hate it. Sydney and Melbourne have all the inconvenience of being bigger with none of the benefits of being enormous that smaller cities like Perth and Adelaide don't also have.
>Do you find getting a gf, getting laid, having fun, and meeting friends with common interests easier in a city?
Completely irrelevant to me. I don't seem to have success with these things no matter where I go.
>Do you prefer rural, small town, mid-sized city, or big city living?
Don't really have a choice in my line of work but if that wasn't a factor I'd prefer to live in the countryside. I guess once I make some good money I could buy a country house and just get a smaller townhouse for convenience.
>Did you go to uni in a big city? A small uni in a small town? How did you like that?
Biggish. Hated university. But any university outside of a state capital city in this country is guaranteed to be absolute garbage and no doubt would have been even worse.
Wrong.
t. Asian from SF living in small town
>Biggish. Hated university.
why?
im going to a small uni of 1k in a rural area 1 hour from any major city and a population of 20k. i feel like i made a huge mistake for internships at the end of my degree and just for having fun/partying/meeting people.
50,000 city would be very comfy
I think around 300k is perfect
>big enough so you will always meet plenty of people
>small enough to regularly meet people you know when you go out drinking etc
>have room for houses in your city without being too far from the center
i wish i have never moved from my village
Anything below 700k
I'm not a normie so havent done any of that anyways
Rural but not too far from civilization, or just anywhere i can have a big back yard with trees or forest nearby to do my activities
Went to 30k uni in a medium size city (350k). It was alright
>Went to 30k uni in a medium size city (350k). It was alright
how was that? are you more "on your own" for doing the coursework? is it easier/harder do you think? some people say big unis have more grade inflation.
130k is the sweet spot for me
anything over a town the friend situation is basically the same shit. I've been to uni at home with 130k and in a city and its the same shit.
People already have friends and you'd have to really force it to turn occasional banter over a semester once a week into s friendship. Like beta ask them to do a mundane activity like rock climbing.
i always assumed it was easier to make friends in a big city, there's fuckloads of people and a lot of them don't know anyone
mabye. where i live its a 25 min walk up the hill to get to the train station so drinking anywhere else is pretty close to off the cards
500k
The bigger, the better.
Anything between 200-500k is fine by me
I used to live in a 50k city. Horrible.
Now I live in Askersund. Around 4000 people live here, feels perfect.
no big cities isolate people. you barely ever meet the same person again, people become a sea of flesh that you navigate through rather than persons you can interact with.
Universities are supposed to be institutions with history and prestige, the local centre of knowledge. My university ostensibly had those things and that role in the community, at least at one time. But as a student I found it to be full of perverts, idiots, ingrates and foreigners, and constantly being made worse by a short-sighted, vain and pretentious collection of overpaid lack-wit administrators who did everything they possibly could do to diminish whatever scrap of history or prestige they could find, to dislocate the university from its heritage and its local community, and to make life needlessly unpleasant for academics and for the few decent students around. From what you're saying you sound like you would love it.