Generally speaking, most of us come/live in one of the following types of areas:

Suburban region: the kind with a collective of houses/neighbors with some outlets/strip malls and you usually have to drive to get around. You can walk as well to get around depending on where you have to go. Nature is close to you as well.

Rural region: aka "the middle of nowhere." The kind of area where your home is in the middle of a forest, or in the hills. Civilization is scarce and the nearest store from you is like 5 miles away. A car is needed to get around because walking can be dangerous or long to do. And you're surrounded by nature; animals are no strangers to you.

City region: of course, this is where you're in the middle of industrialization to say the least with skyscrapers everywhere, stores like at every turn, cars are everywhere, and it's noisy as hell. There's probably mass transportation available in your city and you don't need a car necessarily to get around. And nature is not really near you unless it's a park you go into.


My descriptions above suck I know but just to clarify terms, I wanted to do that.





That aside, where are you from specifically? Also, have you ever experienced other kinds of living other than the three main ones specified above? If yes, explain why you hated/loved your experience and also if you like your current location.





I'm from the city (Brooklyn, New York in the US) and I've always been a city dude. Born and raised here. I love the city life; everything is so convenient here. Everything is open either late or 24/7 and aren't hard to get to. I love the fact that there is mass transportation (the infamous MTA service) you can rely on to get around. Also, my city is overall beautiful aside from the tourist attractions. I love the street life with the graffiti, street art and random goodiness you see happen daily on the streets. I also don't mind the noise here, I can't stand too quite areas anyway because I'll go insane. Plus, something is always going on here so you never get bored.

I've been to a suburban place here and there... I went to this place called Fredrick, Maryland with my girlfriend to hang with her family. Oh my fucking gosh I wanted to shoot myself for that one weekend I spent there. I hated it... everything about it! It was pitch black in the night, you needed a car to get around or you'll get hit on the highway if you walk on it, and for crying out loud, they didn't sell alcohol in the neighborhood I went to! Not that I'm a alcoholic, but my girl and I became bored real easily and wanted to drink up and no store (including the big Walgreens there) didn't carry booze! What the fuck?! And did I mention it was incredibly boring there? I have no idea how people in the suburbs have fun because there is nothing exciting there other than going to a strip mall, which that in itself isn't even fun. Just a neighborhood playground, mall, a Christian church, retirement home and rabbits... ton of em. I wanted to hang myself so bad.

I also went to another suburban type place upstate New York to visit Rochester. I went to the Rochester University of Technology with a club I'm apart of and aside from the very nice university, I hated that experience as well. It was a bit suburban, but also very rural there where the nearest restaurant was like a 5 mile drive. And my club didn't have a car, so we ended up doing like a great journey for breakfast one time from the hotel we stood in, which was surrounded by trees and deers. Oh and there were a ton of bee's... all kinds of them, and I'm definitely not used to seeing so many bee's or any sort of large-scale insects coming towards you. I had to literally swipe insects away from me every 8.657 seconds.


Long story short on my part: I love the city life and will always live in the city. I have no idea how people in the suburbs could enjoy themselves and rural living? I haven't experienced that much but I'd rather not experience it ever unless it was a nice vacation to get away from daily bullshit.

I live in the suburbs, and I have done so all my life. I've gone to cities before, like Sydney and Melbourne, and while they're alright to visit, I could never live there. Much too busy for my liking, and everything is so cramped, you feel like you have no privacy, and I swear it's the central hub for Asians.

So, I'm basically the opposite to you, Funeral_Shadow. I will agree that cities are more convenient when it comes to availability of everything and shops staying open later, but it doesn't counterbalance with the quieter, spacier nature of the suburbs.

Never lived rural, but that would be okay...again, for a visit. Unlike the city life, it'd be too boring and isolated, which is still bad. I'd love to visit some places like that, though, but only for a couple of days.

Living in a city apartment would be cool, but I like my space. I want to retire in a rural setting, but suburbs are a very convenient medium between the space and freedom of rural living and the proximity to working places of city life. I love the darkness and quiet at night. Light and noise pollution irritate me.

What do you do for fun in the city? Suburban life just means you have to go places to have fun. You can't just walk down the street. During the school year I typically just hang out with people or keep to myself, but there's stuff to do on campus and in town. I don't go clubbing, and that's the only thing I can think of that I don't have easy access to, so disregard that if clubbing is the only thing you do for fun.

I live in an area called Sunbury that can be described as a hybrid between suburban and rural. The place is technically a suburb of Melbourne, but it's so detached and isolated from the rest of Melbourne that it's more of a separate sattelite town. It's basically a small town in the middle of a farming and wine region. I live on the very edge of it too, so when I step out of my front door I get a pretty nice view of rolling hills with farms and vineyards right in front of my house.

It's a great environment to live in. Everything looks clean and fresh, we've got country air, there's peace and quiet as there's not many people to bother you, and you can actually see stars at night as opposed to the city where light pollution blocks out any star-gazing opportunities. We also have access to most basic facilities, as Sunbury has a sizeable town centre that has a shopping centre, various supermarkets and stores, even a cinema. We have a lot of sports facilities as well.

Transport is a problem, as I have to take the rural train service in order to get into Melbourne, and despite the comfort and good service of the rural trains, they don't come very often (so missing a train often results in an hour of waiting for the next one). My school is right in the middle of Melbourne, so I have to travel into the city every day. Getting anywhere just takes so long. I've probably already wasted weeks of my life just sitting on trains.


I've lived in inner-city suburbs before, and despite their convenience and improved access to public transport, they feel a bit too cramped and not peaceful enough to me. The people are also much less friendly and pleasant to be around than rural folk like those in Sunbury.

I live in a Rural region and don't get any fucking DSL or cable. I got some shitty wireless broadband. It can stream videos about 50% of the time. Accept when I'm trying to stream porn, then I have to stop and wait for 10 seconds every 15 seconds. It's bad enough my medication makes it take forever for me to get off, I don't need some fucking shitty internet holding me up.

That is really cool. But...


...that is not.


I agree. I've always wanted an apartment, but I know that after a while, I'll start to hate it because it's too small and I can't have loud music. It'd be nice to experience for a week or two, even a month.

Ah yes, that reminds me. Because of our location we can't get cable, and have to settle with DSL which is terrible in comparison - slow and unreliable. We can also only get digital TV, and as we live at the bottom of a hill the signal keeps having small hiccups, so watching TV is very frustrating. On stormy days TV is pretty much unwatchable.

I live in a rural area in the northern part of Minnesota, only a hundred miles south of Canada.Living here is very fuckin isolated. The majority of my township's residents are senior citizens, so I have nobody nearby to hang out with. DSL, cable, T1, etc. are not available, so I'm stuck with satellite internet. Satellite internet isn't the end of the world, but they have annoying download restrictions and during peak hours the download speeds are about as fast as dialup.

The nearest town is 15 miles away, and it's population is around 600. A funny note about that town is that all of the numbers start with 666! Last summer I worked at a Subway sandwich shop there, and its number was none other than 666-2666. There used to be a gas station a quarter mile away from my house, but the owners burned it down for insurance money .

But I feel that the pluses of rural life outweigh the minuses. I've been to Minneapolis a few times, and I can't say I like it too much. Driving in heavy traffic is awful, and all that noise and pollution would really get to me fast. So I only go to large cities for a day or two at a time. The landscapes around here are beautiful. There are lush forests, millions of lakes, and tons of wildlife. The stereotypical person who lives up here is someone who hunts and fishes every weekend, but I can't stand to do either. But it still isn't boring up here. You don't need to hunt animals to enjoy the forest; just strolling through the woods is really neat. And during the winter, there are activities like snowmobiling and cross-country skiing to stay busy.

Being able to walk through the woods on a fall night with Darkthrone blaring on my Ipod is an experience that could never be recreated in a city, so I can definitely say that I love living in the country.

I am mostly split between city and suburban living, as I go to school in San Francisco and then come home the suburban town I'd lived in for four years.



Pretty much felt that way the whole time I was in high school in the suburbs. The people are annoying, the only place to buy CD's is fucking Target or Costco, and it's a pretty lonely existence devoid of any sense of community (at least for me). These days, though, I find myself appreciating the solitude and the sense of living in the "eternal present" - maybe I say that because I always felt that there was no future in suburbia when I first moved here (I lived in a moderatley large town before, not really a suburb in the sense of sprawl, clustering, etc.). That, and the place is an elephant graveyard for retired elderly, the end of tha' line. Depressing.

But it's a nice place to chill out after sleepless nights of schoolwork and living in a cheap college dorm for weeks. My life in San Francisco is almost entirely the opposite. Probably because of school, I always feel busy/rushed, and I get a lot more work done. Because of a (relatively) great public transportation system, I am much more mobile and active. I also experience MUCH more human interaction in the city, whether it be asking for directions, dealing with my roomate, or having political debates with strangers, which is probably what makes me yearn for solitude once in a while.

As for the countryside, it makes for nice scenery when I'm on the road

How about adding some more categories to the topic, just to see if anyone has any really weird experiences? Like..

Nomadic lifestyle: very little or no permanent settlement. Maximum sedentary time could be, say, a few months to a year.

Villages: very very small populations, and low technology.

Homelessness: any experience living in populated areas without a house of your own.

Complete wilderness: even further out from the rural farming experience, places with no trace of civilization, roads, agriculture, and technology at all, save your own possessions (Unabomber-style).

Slums: crowded, poor sanitation, extremely poor - you get the idea.

Military Life: Bases, encampments, makeshift shelters, etc. (as long as it has been used for living/sleeping, rather than, say, a temporarily occupied building for cover).

EDIT: Edited endlessly for improvement to the list.

I'd prefer my current life, suburban. It's not quite far away from the city, but it's not as nightmarishly busy. It's an ugly life out here, but it's at least convenient to get to places, only a 5 minute walk from shops, bank and post office here.

I love ruralness, loved my visit to Nelson, NZ, but I really don't see myself living there.



Are you seriously from Sunbury???? I was there today, my cousin just moved to Melton for work!!

Well, it's different here. You could say I live isolated, but when you look at our nation and compare it to the US or Australia, that's a pretty stupid thing to say.

I live in a real small town, about 20 minutes away from a (small) city. Public transport is really bad, so I usually just go by bike. There isn't much to do around here, but seeing as everything is pretty close to eachother I can't complain. I can get to some of the bigger cities within an hour. So that's not bad. And I live pretty close to the coast, which is also a plus.

I live in a suburban region but I'm very close to a rural one. So often I use to run through the countryside and the open fields because they are just 500 metres far but I'm 15 km close to Turin and this is great: in 30 minutes by car you can reach the city even if you live almost on the countryside. My town is a quite small one and there are more or less 10.000 people living here, mostly were farmers in the past but going on a remarkable number of factories started to grow and it's good also for the quality of the shops because you can always find genuine things.

I would never live in a big city for the exhausts, the traffic and the noises.

I am suburban and like this best.
Stores, the city, and anything else I need/want are all within a short drive. It is very quiet at night and great for going on walks. There are also nice-sized patches of woods scattered about the city. When I get my apartment I want it to be in the area.

I grew up in the suburbs, so I absolutely fucking LOATHE them. Rural areas are all right, but they get a bit boring after a while. As far as I'm concerned, there's only one way to go; big cities. There's so much more to do and see in a good city, not to mention better public transportation and closer amenities than in either of the other aforementioned options. I just can't imagine a situation in my life that would ever motivate me to live outside of a big city. Every time I go to the suburbs, I'm absolutely disgusted by their soullessness. Whenever I'm in a rural area, I get bored. I just can't survive without city life.

I am currently live in a suburban area (though the irony of it is that I can't really get around very easily as the bus prices are, and this isn't hyperbole, £7. The nearest train station is 3 miles away that coupled with the fact that I recently moved here so I don't know anybody either).
The best place I've lived was on the outskits of Southampton, which was awesome as the bus prices weren't too bad and it was near too everything and I had friends and people I knew.
I hate rural areas, I lived in a rural area about 2 years ago, and it sucked majorly, I didn't know anybody, the only bus came twice a day and the 2nd bus didn't come back, the village was quiet and was full of old people (it was kinda like Night of the Living Dead). The place after that wasn't much better, these last 2 years have (for the most part) sucked, and anyone who likes to romantise about how good a rural area is has never live there, I would take the sarcasm and shitty behaviour from the city dwelling city folk (gahhh see what it does too you, you know you've been out in the country too long when you start using 'folk' as terminology for other people) over the fucking depressing isolation of the country any day, at least it's some sort of contact.

I live in the suburbs, have just about all my life except for when i was born since i was born and lived in Tokyo, Japan , neighborhood called tachikawa. I think overal most people tend to leave the cities as soon as they are able.

I live in an industrial city in LA county. It's technically considered a suburb, because homes make up the majority of the area, but there's also large areas of factories surrounding the home, and there's several large streets that are lined with nothing but stores and restaurants (and the occasional house). So its kind of in between suburban and urban.

I've grown used to living here though. I've gotten used to all the sounds of sirens and helicopters, and the light pollution going through my windows, I kind of NEED it to sleep now. I went to some mountain town in Colorado once for a weekend, and it was pitch black and silent at night, and I couldn't quite sleep well...

I've been to clean quiet suburban areas before in Southern California, and jesus they seem SO boring. A lot of them tend to be detached from areas of commerce, so it's absolutely necessary to have a car to go anywhere to buy anything, and opposed to my being able to walk down the street. Also, the people tend to be boring... it almost seems pretty much the only thing they can talk about is how nice the area is, and how we should totally move to there.

Edit: I should also mention, a BIG plus for urban areas: Easy access to shows in the area.

I live in a somewhat rural area in northern Portugal but I'd love to live in the city. Rural live means nothing to me.
I'm thinking on moving to New York someday...

I've lived in rural areas most of my life, although I'm currently slumming it in suburbia. It's fair enough to say that Suburbia sucks; boring as hell and with a tendency to make people boring. Rural life is the shit; it's laid back and relaxed, not terribly exciting but no big deal. I'm laid back, relaxed and not terribly exciting either, so it suits me too a tee. Surfing, fishing, lots of substance abuse and dudes with acoustic guitars trying to harmonise; it's good times. Also, more people out in the rural areas (well, based on the few places I've lived) tend to have an appreciation for the finer musics (metal) which works fine by me. I'm a real hippie, too; I love being way out in the middle of nowhere with nothing but nature. I enjoy my own company, too, so living out there works well for me.

Sooner rather then later I plan on moving way out into the country, somewhere down south, I think. I do like city life but the lack of space and the outdoors drives me nuts after a few days.

I grew up in urban areas when I was very young (birth-age 6) until I moved further away from the concrete jungle into the suburbs, which I prefer for a couple of reasons 1) Less crime, 2) Less populated and 3) Not a fuckmass of cars all the time on roads.

I use to live a city life in Marikina Philippines. I think once your used to the fact that everything is so cramped and on walking distance, the convenience of it was spectacular. I was very young though so I didn't really know what people at teen/20's do for fun.

When I was 13, I moved to the suburbs in a small town of Woodhaven Michigan. Its not too bad here. The fun is very few, but you have to improvise and make a lot of friends. On summers, we usually invite bout 20-30 people in my friends backyard and have a bonfire. Its quite fun. Then on winter, we would usually just drive somewhere like bowling alley, walleyball court, etc and just play a couple of games. Hmm, then theres always the underground parties round here. Also, small clubs that sometimes get decent/good concerts. The closest one to me is Simons, bout 10-15 min drive, where Nunslaughter and Sauron played.

I guess I wouldn't mind living in the city for a couple of years, but definitely not Detroit. That place is a piece of shit. Even the decent side of detroit has no shops or anything. Lansing is completely different from Detroit, but I need to explore it more. Only been there once, and that's in Mac's bar when we saw Wolves in the Throne Room.

I live on the edge of Suburban to urban, although closer to suburban. I can walk to the important stores(grocery) and restaurants, but that's about it. The malls are biking distance. I think it's probably the best of both worlds living in maine, in one of the smallest cities in the country as well. I've lived in rural and from what I remember it wasn't fun.

Here's a YouTube video that starts on my road. Fuck knows why the person wanted to film it but it's quite handy here.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iHF14UvJuYw

I was born and raised in Farnborough til I was 18. It's got a population of 57,000, is 34 miles from London and straddles the M3, just like the other nearby towns it clusters with. I live just off a B-road, within 5 minutes walk of the shops in the town centre. How boring or exciting Farnborough is depends on your frame of reference. It's convenient, it's got great transport links and sufficient amenities, isn't crowded but it's not exactly fun, plus a lot of the architecture is a bit depressing, especially the slummy bit we lived in until I was 5. Also I've experienced the way things run socio-economically in a smallish town. Some people are pricks because they've got nothing better to do. That's something you've got to balance out in the UK. You can either live in a city where people "mind their own business" but burglary, violent crime and muggings are high, or live in a vaguely middle-class small town where you're supposedly safe but there's a large minority of dickheads ruining it for everyone because they can't do anything constructive with their boredom, only hang outside the local One Stop and start on people just trying to get groceries.

Only other place I've lived is Leeds for 3 years for university. That's got as much as you could ask in the way of 24/7 stores, shopping, entertainment, drinking and whatnot.

I generally find that urban life is convenient but the un-natural setting makes me really depressed, especially in the winter. I don't know how I'd deal with rural life but I'd like to try it, I can imagine if I made enough money into my old age I could happily settle somewhere like that, because my wealth and the scenery would compensate for the isolation. Other factors play into it as well, like geographical/aesthetic things. When it comes to urban environments I could happily live in Edinburgh or York but not Manchester, and with "out in the sticks" places I would love the Lake District but find the Fens really bleak and depressing. I feel happiest in places with an epic and/or ye olde vibe to them.

I live in kind of a mixture of the two, but like all other open spaces here it will soon be developed into shopping centers and more suburbs like the west side of town. Scenic Route my ass. And they're building a god damned freeway over the fucking mountain behind my house! I hate the developers here. It's supposed to be one of the biggest arch bridges over land as well or some shit like that.


It's kind of nice though, it doesn't take long to drive anywhere here so I guess there is a positive and a negative to everything.

I think development wise, I go with the "build on flat, boring bits of land, save the scenic parts". There's nothing worse than a decent spot of land getting shagged.

I live in a small (or medium sized by Swedish standards) used to be industrial town on the eastern coast. Of all the places I've been to in Sweden, this is one of the most run-down places I've ever been to.

Basically, the town is composed of hastily built and badly maintained apartment buildings, some older houses on which there has been some half assed restoration attempted, and a lot of old, abandoned factories and storage facilities in various stages of decay.

What bothers me the most about this place though, is the total lack of anything interesting in the entire town. There is simply nothing to do here whatsoever besides smoking pot, drinking, and sitting at home watching TV. This also shows, since close to everybody I meet and get to know here has some kind of involvement or history with drugs. Most of the people here are also, by Swedish standards, quite poor and living in cheap apartments.

There is no interesting scenery around. Factory exhausts from what is pretty much the only factory which is still running makes the entire town smell like utter shit (and I really mean utter shit) on a regular basis (depending on how the wind blows). Aside from that, it is one of the dirtiest places I've ever seen. Some days, you can't walk through the central parts of town for more than something like five metres without seeing a big puddle of someone's vomit in the middle of the street or on the pavement.

Apart from that, going by Swedish standards, the schools are worthless, the community itself seems to have some real structural problems, the cops are mostly corrupt, there are no jobs to be found anywhere (you have to go to the neighbouring city for that), and the entire town just has this thick, depressing atmosphere about it.

So yeah, I fucking hate it here. I probably wouldn't mind living in another town of the same size though, since I've been to a lot of other towns of the same size (both inside and outside Sweden), and they don't seem to have the same problems. The way I see it, I'm just stuck somewhere that's plain crap. Gonna try to get higher education somewhere else, but since I don't have the economy to move to Stockholm, I'll probably end up either staying here or in a neighbouring town easily accessible by train or bus.

I live in a small town in Somerset with a population of around 12,000. Aside from a few pubs and a cinema there's not a lot to do. Go a few miles in any direction and you're in the middle of the countryside, which is great for me because I love the English countryside. Of course the downsides; it's boring, no real night life, and NO metal. However transport links are pretty good; the M5 is a couple of miles away, Exeter, Bristol and Plymouth are all within (about) and hours drive, which is alright for gigs. The county town of somerset (population of about 60,000) is about 7 miles away and seeing as I go to college there I spend most of my time there in the week seeing as there is much more to do. All in all I enjoy living here, but I'm looking forward to going to Uni in a large city because city life has always held an appeal for me. Oh, and Neglected Field's comment about bored kids outside One Stop absolutely applies to the town I live in.

I live in the middle of fucking nowhere to be precise. To specify: I have 7-8 km to the nearest bus station (should be around 4-5 miles I think for you who haven't got around the metric system yet) and my closest neighbor lives about 0,5 km from me. There is a family building a house just next to us right now, although it isn't finished yet. You can probably figure out that I don't enjoy it very much here (although the advantage is you can play music loud as Manowar wants without disturbing anyone). I'm 18 and I still live with my family but it won't be long until I can get my own place. I'm trying to get my drivers license so I can get out without being dependent on getting a ride, but it is not the cheapest and easiest thing to get here in Sweden.
There isn't really much more to say about where I live. I go to school in Uppsala (one of the larger cities in Sweden) and I have to take a 30-40 minutes bus ride every day back and fourth. The city is pretty boring to be honest, it is basically nothing more than a enlarged suburban town. It's just collectives of houses and apartment buildings surrounding the small city core.

I've always lived in the country, but not in complete seclusion. I absolutely find it drab and boring, and all I feel there is to do is play guitar. I've never had woods to appreciate, just boring flat plains. I'm moving to Minneapolis in about 6 months so I should be much happier there. The city is an absolute enjoyment to stay at and visit for extended periods of time. The only plus is the ease of cannabis consumption where I am.

Great idea to come down here. You'll love it here... just stay away from Staten Island


Being someone posted a video of their neighborhood, I thought I do the same. I currently live in a neighborhood called Flatlands in Brooklyn... it's a mix of residential houses, nature and industrial parts. Not necessarily where I'm from but here's another street ride view of what I see daily: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7DpJ8xW0aM

This, however, is where I'd love to live once I move out of my folks place in a year or so... the neighborhoods of Greenpoint and Williamsburg. Williamsburg is apparently the US capital of hipster scum to my knowledge but other than them, I love the vibe and aesthetic of that neighborhood. Plus, these twos neighborhoods are great representations of how Brooklyn looks generally: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kjXmTO8mE

Yep.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=tgaV_Hsse_Q
The only videos of Sunbury I could find was from some guy who really likes trains. This one's a pretty shitty video, but my house is about 100m to the left of where this was filmed. You see some of the older rural trains that I take (though these days they've mostly been replaced by much newer models).

I've lived in both surburban and rural areas. I first grew up out in the country in Northern Georgia until I was about six or seven. Then, I moved to South Carolina and still lived in a rural area. From there, I moved to the surburbs of Sumter and then out into the country again.

Although it can be very boring, I like the country better. I have complete freedom out here. For example, I can run outside naked if I wish to do so. It does kind of suck though since most of my friends live in town.

That would fit me. I haven't lived in one area for more than a year in maybe the last 6 years. I've lived in mostly suburban areas in NY,Florida and California. I'm moving to L.A. next week though to try the urban city life. I'm hoping it's better than NYC which I really didn't like.

And that's just moving on my own, before that my family has moved a lot. I've probably lived in more houses/apartments than had birthdays.

I hike and camp as much as I can to get out of any kind of developed area, sometimes weeks at a time. Maybe I'll try living in a rural area next.

The thing that really sucks so much is how many of your possessions you have to give up on each move. I'm probably down to about 20% of my stuff since I first moved out of my parents house 6 years ago. I've given up on re-buying furniture because of this. Besides a bed and some lawn chairs and tables. It's easier to just scavenge peoples thrown out shit haha.

I live in a small, rural redneck area in upstate New York. I love living here. Lots of space to go out shooting and driving my 4 wheeler. Plus, I love having a lawn that is 5 acres.

Suburbs for me, always have lived here. I'm ready for a change of pace, myself. I'd like to experience other forms of living as well. I do like the suburbs enough, as I live in a country club sort of setting, so I have a lot of gorgeous sights to see and a lot of space to move around in, with no crime or anything like that, but I need a change.

I'm slightly worried that I've grown too accustomed to the feeling of security provided by the country club though. That won't get me far in a big city or anything, where there actually is a rate of crime and whatnot.

Flatlands does eem like a great place to live.
I'll maybe even try Manhattan.
But don't worry I won't even go near Staten.

Australia also has an extra designation: Country. This is where the nearest store is 700km away and the nearest tree is equally as far.

As for me, I'm a rural bumfuck, 70-80km from the nearest city (Adelaide). It blows, close enough to not be cool and country and whatnot but too far to get any of the benefits of being in/near a city.

Basically, the worst of the worst. Plus it doesn't help that there's a large amount of ferals around here.

Why don't you move close to the city? I remember you said you have a brother who lives in/near Adelaide.

My brother lives in Canberra now (army you see).

And I can't move, still 16 remember and the parents want to be here for who knows how long. I hate it, but hey, my opinion as to where we live isn't valid.