| That almost sounds like a purposefully dense view into all of the possibilities of things you can do with your time. I'll give you my perspective as someone who grew up in and moved from NYC to small town in the south. Everywhere I'd want to be regularly is easier for me to get to when living in the suburbs. Clubs, theaters, museums are still within a short drive on the occasions I want to be there, but no one is going to be there every day. I have more desire to be out in nature than I do in a club. A non-exhaustive list: - I don't need to travel 2+ hours to see nature, it's outside my door and huge swathes of public land are available with real nature and wildlife, not manufactured parks full of homeless. - Restaurants and bars aren't restricted to cities, we've got plenty of them. If anything more of them have more usable outdoor spaces where I'm not sitting 5ft from a pile of garbage. - I can host more than a handful of people for a dinner party, board game night AND I can do it with comfortable seating/table space for all (impossible in NYC) - I've got space for _all_ my hobbies: DIY, woodworking, flower preserving, kayaks, cooking. I'm also not restricted by a lack of space to pick up new ones. All of that _and_ I can be in a city and enjoy its benefits whenever I want to be with a short drive. 99% of my travel by car here takes less time than an equivalent trip by public transportation in NYC from where I could afford to live. |