The Big City AKA Downtown AKA major metropolitan AREAS!!!!

QuantumBalance · Post by **QuantumBalance** » 21 Jan 2008 02:02

Jeo!

Now that I'm in Downtown Seattle, WA. The fucking collest place I've ever been, I just wanna SHOUT OUT and holllaaa to the other denizens around the wiz-ow. That's world, folks try to keep up.

OFFICIAL PURPOSE FOR THIS THREADS EXISTENCE:

Please tell us your good AND bad experiences that were related to bigcityization. If you live in one please chime in and give a shout out.. while still telling some experiences. If you live in a smaller town OR even medium city without a collasal downtown... sucks to be you. Just kidding, I bet it doenst suck at all.

Aight well I'm out before I make even more a fool of myself.

u just got CLOWN FACED !!!!!!!!!

Bringerofpie · Post by **Bringerofpie** » 21 Jan 2008 06:53

It actually does suck to live in the burbs.

james_dean · Post by **james_dean** » 22 Jan 2008 00:47

I live in the bush and I love it. I couldn't live in the city.

max · Post by **max** » 22 Jan 2008 00:50

I've been a city-dweller for several decades now.
I plan on living in cities for some more years, but also plan on retiring in the sunny rural south of France.

Also, I'm not sold on the idea of raising small children in a Big-City.

Asmus · Post by **Asmus** » 22 Jan 2008 11:35

LOU REED AND JOHN CALE - Smalltown

When you're growing up in a small town
When you're growing up in a small town
When you're growing up in a small town
You say no one famous ever came from here

When you're growing up in a small town
and you're having a nervous breakdown
and you think that you'll never escape it
Yourself or the place that you live

Where did Picasso come from
There's no Michelangelo coming from Pittsburgh
If art is the tip of the iceberg
I'm the part sinking below

When you're growing up in a small town
Bad skin, bad eyes, gay and fatty
People look at you funny
When you're in a small town

My father worked in construction
It's not something for which I'm suited
Oh, what is something for which you are suited ?
Getting out of here

I hate being odd in a small town
If they stare let them stare in New York City
As this pink eyed painting albino
How far can my fantasy go ?

I'm no Dali coming from Pittsburgh
No adorable lisping Capote
My hero, oh, do you think I could meet him ?
I'd camp out at his front door

There is only one good thing about small town
There is only one good use for a small town
There is only one good thing about small town
You know that you want to get out

When you're growing up in a small town
You know you'll grow down in a small town
There is only one good use for a small town

You hate it and you'll know you have to leave

Tribute to Andy Warhol.
I agree with these lyrics..

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 22 Jan 2008 15:41

Yeah I grew up in the country, and although I enjoy cities, I prefer smaller places. The reason I love Hobart so much is that although it's a city, it's very small, and untouched wilderness is literally walking distance away.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 22 Jan 2008 18:04

i could only live in a city. things i love about living in the city:
-all the people, especially the crazy ones. i wind up being friends with a lot of them it seems.
-the urban environment. the asphalt driveways, the streets, the sidewalks, especially in the summer when the sun glints off the somewhat grimy curb, making it too hot to walk on barefoot, not that you would anyway. and i hate how a lot of places in the sticks dont even have sidewalks half the time.
-the crowded buildings, especially the skyscrapers, even though i usually take them for granted. although i can
-how theres always somewhere i can go to hang out or buy stuff, with so many options. and i love how even though i dont have a car i can still get anywhere i need to in the city within about 40 minutes on the extensive public transportation system (first underground subway in america!)
-its definitely a good thing that theres a lot of different kinds of schools around, especially a lot of trade schools. i wouldnt have a job right now otherwise
-how its like associated closely with sports teams, unlike most suburban/rural areas
etc.

Drew · Post by **Drew** » 23 Jan 2008 17:51

SHOUTIN OUT! I live on South Broad st in Philadelphia and on New Years day a few weeks ago some peeps and I strolled along the Mummer's Day parade route smoking a fatty

BainbridgeShred · Post by **BainbridgeShred** » 24 Jan 2008 20:13

What are you in Seattle for? It's fucking ass cold right now.

Stay away from Crack Alley

BenRea · Post by **BenRea** » 28 Jan 2008 12:41

I hate big cities i will live in the country when i grow old.

so nasty and polluted and i am terrible at directions and navigational skills.

never let me drive you to a jam.

bdams19 · Post by **bdams19** » 02 Feb 2008 00:17

One of the reasons i love hoboken is that it's a nice small (1 sq mile) city of young professionals chock full of bars and parks and restaraunts. And NYC, the greatest city in the world, is 15 minutes away. I don't think I could live there though.

EoghanMcDowell · Post by **EoghanMcDowell** » 03 Feb 2008 20:02

I can handle both pretty well. There are pro's and cons to both living situations. All i know is that i just want to live life wherever it wants me to live.