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I think this every time someone romanticizes living out in the country.
I live in the city now after years of living in the country, and I definitely wanna go back to the country. The only good thing about the city is that I can just walk across the street for groceries which are way more expensive here than where I moved from. City has more pests, too. Once in a while I'd see a field mouse get into the kitchen when I was living in the sticks. In the city, cockroaches and big fat fucking rats all the time, everywhere, the minute the sun goes down. It's gross.
Oh God, that sounds awful. The worst we've ever had was ants, which are gross but manageable with some bait traps.
The ideal city size is about 100k people. Big enough to have stuff to do, but small enough that you don't have to drive forever to do it.
s/drive/take the train/
That's not an option for most of the US.
If you think living in a big city involves driving anywhere routinely to begin with, you're doing it wrong.
It's the big city that does it wrong
Tell that to Houston.
Almost all of American cities I guess.
Yup. It's hard to do it right when the infrastructure doesn't exist.
Houston, we have a problem.