How to Decide Between City and Country Living

City and country residents love their particular home sites. How would you decide whether you should the city or country? The way to do this is to see what each has to offer that specifically appeals to you. Explore some of the positives of each instance in the steps below.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Living in the City

1. Enjoy the convenience of city living as you walk or drive a brief distance to the places you want to visit. Take the dog for a walk as you stop and talk with neighbors along the way. Equally important, you can take a quick walk with your pet in the nearby park. Ownership of a small versus a very large dog is better for the city.
2. Discover that you are out of milk or bread at 8:00 in the evening. In the city, you can just go to the store, buy the grocery items you need and return home. All of this has taken a total of five or ten minutes to accomplish.
3. Visit the library, museum, clothing store or dry cleaner with only a 10-15 minute drive. These places are often grouped together. You should be able to do all of your errands in one afternoon of just 3-4 hours (including travel). You can easily add the weekly grocery shopping and barely notice the time it has added to your afternoon.
4. Sit in your back yard and enjoy the two or three starts you can see. A neighbor will come out and talk with you for a while. The dog runs around the yard (if you have one) chasing its tail. Enjoy your surroundings—you are in a cultural center. You have everything you need here in a more compact form.
5. See a play or go to a movie in the same general area where you will find your favorite shopping mall. Cultural and business entities offer you more choices in the cities.

Living in the Country

6. Take a breath of fresh, pollution-free air as you enjoy the country. You can walk over the acre or so that you have as your yard and take in all of the wild flowers in the spring as you get your exercise.
7. Raise larger breeds of animals than you would be able to have in the city. Large dogs have room to run over your yard where they would be more restricted in the city. The fenced in area is most likely many times larger than the biggest city yard.
8. Wait on going to the store for non-essential items and allow yourself to feel OK about it. There is no reason to travel the many miles into town for milk and eggs when it would take you so long that you would no longer be in the mood to make the recipe for which you needed them.
9. Drive to your weekly errands and group them together. These will take longer to accomplish (possibly as much as a couple of hours more due to travel time), but you will enjoy the peaceful, scenic surroundings as you go into town and back.
10. View the sunset and evening stars easier here. The smog level, which usually keeps this from happening to a great degree in the city, is non-existent.

Tips & Warnings

• Think of everything you love about each location. Also consider the pricing of housing and land with each.
• Be sure to realize that you will need a riding lawn mower with most country living.
• Scenic viewing incentives often include hills, ponds, rivers and lakes in the country.
• The price of real estate is going up in the country as well as in the city, but at very different rates.
• There is no truly perfect setting. The city and country living arrangements each have their wonderful and disagreeable aspects.

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