Big city living

[Azone]

As far as driving in a metro area you have to abandon being Midwestern nice and drive like it’s Mario Kart. To hesitate is the greatest sin driving in the city. Wait to merge until the last second, find an out of state plate to cut off and bomb across 4 lanes of traffic. Realize large vehicles are a liability not an asset trying to drive and park. Don’t be the guy that decided to drive his long bed F350 to the 12 story parking garage and then complains.

I’m currently in the process of relocating my family in the next few months out of California. After being out of this damn rat race for weeks at a time the last couple months working at a new job, it’s a real eye opener to me how crazy and hectic this place is. I mean we all know it’s crazy out here, but it’s like becoming nose blind to a bad smell when your around it all the time.

I’m usually a pretty calm guy when it comes to driving but when it comes to getting through the Sacramento area, no truer words have ever been spoken than those above.

I grew up rural out on a few different ranches, never went into town much to recreate as a kid. I went to school in town and played sports but other than that I never wanted anything to do with being in city limits. I had a few reservoirs full of bass and bluegill to torment with a fly rod that I had access to and a few canyons with an endless supply of ground squirrels to shoot. Then throw in shooting coyotes and hunting hogs and bucks and I feel I had it made as a child and teenager. A traffic jam was a harvester getting followed by 5 to 8 tractors pulling trailers. The big city life is not my cup of tea by no means and I’m fortunate to have a wife who really wants nothing to do with it as well. Put me out in BF Egypt listing to crickets, coyotes and the wind blow and I am perfectly content.

 

[Pharmseller]

The city folk can keep their cities. If I want fancy food, I’ll cook it.

My wife and I are blessed to have a few acres outside of town, but only 18 minutes to a major hospital. Even closer to a large grocery store. Can’t see our nearest neighbors.

















More power to you if you prefer tight quarters and concrete. Not for me.





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[Will_m]

The city folk can keep their cities. If I want fancy food, I’ll cook it.

My wife and I are blessed to have a few acres outside of town, but only 18 minutes to a major hospital. Even closer to a large grocery store. Can’t see our nearest neighbors.


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More power to you if you prefer tight quarters and concrete. Not for me.





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Brother, you are living the dream.

 

[TxxAgg]

I live in the middle of the blue haha

 

[Eldoradotim]

Sometimes you gotta experience all the options to figure out what you really want. I went from Lake Tahoe>college town>Sacramento>rural just outside of Sacramento. A couple years ago I was able to convince my wife to escape CA and now we're in a small mountain/rural town in central Idaho. Even though we were "rural" in CA it just didn't even compare to where are now, still dealing with millions of people all around you in the greater region. Like in Denver, accessing the mountains that I grew up in just became ridiculous.

It's unreal the difference. There's an honest small town community, I run into people we know all around town, people are friendly and generally not in a rush. The outdoor recreation is right-they're accessible and just endless. Our kids know everyone in their grade and are in the best schools in the State. Obviously it's not possible for everyone, but if you want out of the city and have the opportunity...take it! An endless supply of great restaurants and shopping is really overrated. My wife and I joke when in Boise (2.5 hr drive) that its just like suburban Sacramento and that there's people driving everywhere all the time and it seems like their no.1 hobby is literally shopping all day and eating out every night! No thanks!

Funny about the drivers...
Recently drove to San Diego to see family, drove around San Diego for activities, then drove back through Vegas, then SLC, then home. It's mind-blowing, even to an ex-Californian. There's no rules, no etiquette, pass on whatever side you want, signaling is optional, total anarchy, dogs & cats....living together! It's like they're all trying to commit vehicle suicide every time they get on the freeway. I don't know how people live like that. It get's very noticeably better as you get further and further from So Cal (the epicenter), and then Vegas, and after that it's quite normal again. I've got 2 stoplights in my whole county, and that might be 1 too many......

 

[*zap*]

nowadays citi folk are just rats in a trap but they like it that way for some strange reason. please do not encourage any migration out to the better places...

 

[WCB]

I have never been to a once small town that turned more towards city and thought it got better.

 

[Pikespeak]

Ive lived in both and there are pros and cons. I was more relaxed in the country but had 0 friends. The people that lived in our area awere all older so my wife and I felt lonely. There wasn't really any place to go within 1.5 hours to go meet people either.

Every other thing was better in the country.

 

[Cfriend]

I like the country, but we are all different and find our enjoyment from different things.

I really don't think that anyone should be looking down on anyone else though. The city people are dependent on the country people for food and raw materials. On the other hand, those of us in the country depend on the city people too: our trucks, phones, computers, etc. weren't engineered and built from a cabin in Wyoming.

We all depend on each other to some degree.

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[Johnny Tyndall]

With 330,000,000 people in the country, someone has to do it. Anyone who prefers and values country living should appreciate efforts to make cities nicer and bigger.

 

[Beendare]

The work from home has already created a huge exodus out of cities.

Maybe this will change Societies values as a positive.

 

[pk_]

I am staying roughly 40 minutes south east of Kansas city in what locals call a quiet neighborhood. Recon that just goes to show not all words mean the same thing to everyone.
This has given new/renewed meaning to what busy is!
Absolutely can not wait to get home!

How in the world do you big city guys live like this, year in year out?

is this a joke?

40 mins SE of KC is the definition of BFE and the middle of ****ing nowhere…

There’s probably more cattle than humans in that county

If you think that’s ‘big city’, I envy your life not all of us who live in the concrete jungle, prefer it.

 

[CorbLand]

The work from home has already created a huge exodus out of cities.

As you see Starlink (and others) become better and more common this will speed up.

 

[Poser]

As you see Starlink (and others) become better and more common this will speed up.

The WFH market Seems to be contracting at the moment, unfortunately. I’m sure it will stabilize and correct itself once again as companies don’t get the outcomes they are looking for with RTO.

 

[HornPorn]

How easy is it to make $100K/year when you live in a rural area?
How about $150K/year?
How about $200K/year?
etc.

Most people living in the cities are not there because they like having millions of people on top of them. They are there to make money.

You know all those left coast and NY liberals buying up all the land and ranchettes anywhere near a ski area out West? They are able to do that because they lived in the cities for a couple of decades. They don't know how to change a flat tire, but they can make money in the city, and now they just bought the land you used to hunt on and built a lodge that is nicer and bigger than your house, that they might spend 6 weeks out of the year in, jacking the property taxes up on everyone and pricing out regular folks.

Everything is a trade off

 

[*zap*]

yes, you trade quality of life for $....just like people are trading freedom for $.

ymmv

 

[CorbLand]

The WFH market Seems to be contracting at the moment, unfortunately. I’m sure it will stabilize and correct itself once again as companies don’t get the outcomes they are looking for with RTO.

I am with you on that. I think you will see the work from home option continue to expand and contract but I don't think the contraction will ever be deeper than the expansion.

I could easily do my job from anywhere that has reliable internet. I plan to push for work from home in the next 3-5 years.

 

[backyardbandit]

Here's a neat map for those of you looking to move to dark skies. North Korea would be a great spot!

Light pollution map

Interactive world light pollution map. The map uses NASA VIIRS, World Atlas 2015, Aurora prediction, observatories, clouds and SQM/SQC overlay contributed by users.

www.lightpollutionmap.info

I could work remote and travel a few times a year for client meetings, but for now I need to keep my wife at her office, so I'm stuck living an hour from STL!

 

[MallardSX2]

Most of the people on this very site live in the city and just pose as country.

If you can't walk out your back door and rattle off a full mag of .556 without someone calling the cops, you live in the city. I couldn't imagine living where someone had a say in what I did on my own land. HOA Whaaaaaat?

lol

 

[KurtR]

Im a 100 miles from the nearest wallmart and thats almost to close. More than two stop lights is to many for me