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BIG CITY Vs. small town

Bored at work.

Which is preferable? Poll soon.

i love living in the city [...] where junk is king and the air smells shitty.

Big City. Metro area of 300,000 or more.

I'm living in a small town (pop. 8,000) for the first time in my life, and I'm quite enjoying it. I thought it might be difficult to make friends at first, but on the contrary I found it much easier than in the big cities I've lived. Every weirdo drop out artist type hangs out at the same place, everybody knows everybody, it's nice. Slightly inconvenient perhaps, but I like it.

I just went from living in a very big city to a small town. I miss it, badly.

1. Tokyo, Japan - 28,025,000
2. Mexico City, Mexico - 18,131,000
3. Mumbai, India - 18,042,000
4. Sáo Paulo, Brazil - 17, 711,000
5. New York City, USA - 16,626,000
6. Shanghai, China - 14,173,000
7. Lagos, Nigeria - 13,488,000
8. Los Angeles, USA - 13,129,000
9. Calcutta, India - 12,900,000
10. Buenos Aires, Argentina - 12,431,000 11. Seóul, South Korea - 12,215,000
12. Beijing, China - 12,033,000
13. Karachi, Pakistan - 11,774,000
14. Delhi, India - 11,680,000
15. Dhaka, Bangladesh - 10,979,000
16. Manila, Philippines - 10,818,000
17. Cairo, Egypt - 10,772,000
18. Õsaka, Japan - 10,609,000
19. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 10,556,000
20. Tianjin, China - 10,239,000
21. Jakarta, Indonesia - 9,815,000
22. Paris, France - 9,638,000
23. Istanbul, Turkey - 9,413,000
24. Moscow, Russian Fed. - 9,299,000
25. London, United Kingdom - 7,640,000
26. Lima, Peru - 7,443,000
27. Tehrãn, Iran - 7,380,000
28. Bangkok, Thailand - 7,221,000
29. Chicago, USA - 6,945,000
30. Bogotá, Colombia - 6,834,000
31. Hyderabad, India - 6,833,000
32. Chennai, India - 6,639,000
33. Essen, Germany - 6,559,000
34. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - 6,424,519
35. Hangzhou, China - 6,389,000
36. Hong Kong, China - 6,097,000
37. Lahore, Pakistan - 6,030,000
38. Shenyang, China - 5,681,000
39. Changchun, China - 5,566,000
40. Bangalore, India - 5,544,000
41. Harbin, China - 5,475,000
42. Chengdu, China - 5,293,000
43. Santiago, Chile - 5,261,000
44. Guangzhou, China - 5,162,000
45. St. Petersburg, Russian Fed. - 5,132,000
46. Kinshasa, DRC - 5,068,000
47. Baghdãd, Iraq - 4,796,000
48. Jinan, China - 4,789,000
49. Wuhan, China - 4,750,000
50. Toronto, Canada - 4,657,000
51. Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) - 4,458,000
52. Alger, Algeria - 4,447,000
53. Philadelphia, USA - 4,398,000
54. Qingdao, China - 4,376,000
55. Milano, Italy - 4,251,000
56. Pusan, South Korea - 4,239,000
57. Belo Horizonte, Brazil - 4,160,000
58. Almadabad, India - 4,154,000
59. Madrid, Spain - 4,072,000
60. San Francisco, USA - 4,051,000 61. Alexandria, Egypt - 3,995,000
62. Washington DC, USA - 3,927,000
63. Houston, USA - 3,918,000
64. Dallas, USA - 3,912,000
65. Guadalajara, Mexico - 3,908,000
66. Chongging, China - 3,896,000
67. Medellin, Colombia - 3,831,000
68. Detroit, USA - 3,785,000
69. Handan, China - 3,763,000
70. Frankfurt, Germany - 3,700,000
71. Porto Alegre, Brazil - 3,699,000
72. Hanoi, Vietnam - 3,678,000
73. Sydney, Australia - 3,665,000
74. Santo Domingo, Dom. Rep. - 3,601,000
75. Singapore, Singapore - 3,587,000
76. Casablanca, Morocco - 3,535,000
77. Katowice, Poland - 3,488,000
78. Pune, India - 3,485,000
79. Bangdung, Indonesia - 3,420,000
80. Monterrey, Mexico - 3,416,000
81. Montréal, Canada - 3,401,000
82. Nagoya, Japan - 3,377,000
83. Nanjing, China - 3,375,000
84. Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire - 3,359,000
85. Xi'an, China - 3,352,000
86. Berlin, Germany - 3,337,000
87. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - 3,328,000
88. Recife, Brazil - 3,307,000
89. Dusseldorf, Germany - 3,251,000
90. Ankara, Turkey - 3,190,000
91. Melbourne, Australia - 3,188,000
92. Salvador, Brazil - 3,180,000
93. Dalian, China - 3,153,000
94. Caracas, Venezuela - 3,153,000
95. Adis Abeba, Ethiopia - 3,112,000
96. Athina, Greece - 3,103,000
97. Cape Town, South Africa - 3,092,000
98. Koln, Germany - 3.067,000
99. Maputo, Mozambique - 3,017,000
100. Napoli, Italy - 3,012,000

Wow, my city is three steps below New York city, wow impressive.

my city is just below the best city (in theory) in the world.

Every-n I so want to live a while in Mexico City. I want to live in several countries before I die.

I really enjoy San Francisco.

It's just so expensive.

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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

my city is just below the best city (in theory) in the world.

Tokyo ain't all that.

I think I technically live in the greater Tokyo metropolitan area. Sure as shit couldn't tell by looking outside though.

That's going to be my home, hopefully in the fall.

it really depends on the people in the city not the city itself..... i love tokyo it is an awesome awesome city and the people there are wonderful, contrary to that i kinda actually really despised london, although the people i met there were lovely the city itself is a filthy fucking stink hole dirty grimey grey and pungent. paris is lovely but the people are snooty, berlin the people are lovely the city itself is grey and cold and mostly ugly except for alot of the newer architecture springing up around the place.

population really doesn't mean much to me but it is much easier to be anonymous in are large city even if it is only 1000000 or so people like my home city.

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Originally Posted by sarramkrop

30,000,000+

that would be tokyo these days

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Originally Posted by vulva

I just went from living in a very big city to a small town. I miss it, badly.

I hear ya. Though my situation's slightly different. I went from living in a lovely, cosmopolitan college town to an ugly, narrow small town. It's hell.

College towns are much like big cities, with all the benefits and few of the disadvantages.

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Originally Posted by vulva

I just went from living in a very big city to a small town. I miss it, badly.

i did that, for 2 years.

just claw your way out of the hole.

Work in NYC live in teeny NJ. Best of both worlds...and no one fucks with my bikes.

I can't decide what to vote for.
As much as I love the city, I love the country. Their both awesome.

i love living in a city but not huge-like jerusalem\boston are the perfect size for me. when im older and have less interest in world domination i would like to relocate to a much smaller town

I prefer the anonymity of living in a 'mega city' (in my case London) and the ability to avoid certain people that share it with you, by virtue of its sheer size.
I'd quite happily leave London, but only for another megatropolis - NYC, Berlin, Paris, etc.

EDIT: Looking at the list of cities by population, it appears that London isn't a Mega City at all but a 'very big' one. I feel humbled.

i much prefer smaller cities. I chose the large town category.

Growing up in Atlanta, the move to a smaller city was tough at first, but now I wouldn't even think about trading it in for another big city.

^^Tchernobyl ? Well.^^
It looks calm...

Small town where the land and air are plentiful. And the neighbors sparse. The stars bright.

uh.. large town seems.. well 50k to 499k?

that is a jump. there has got to be a few more steps involved with this. It probably depends on your region. An area with 40k people could be a metropolis in some places and a village in another. Not trying to be nit-picky but it seems like a drastic leap.

In the long run i'll probably be a 400k city type but I'm sure I'll hit just about every one of those spots along the way.

It's funny seeing 50,000 being considered a small city. The town I live in consists of two citys because they're so close and every thing and between the two there are about 20,000 people and it's pretty bustling.

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Originally Posted by HECKLER SPRAY

^^Tchernobyl ? Well.^^
It looks calm...

Prypiat.