Big city living

[Poser]

It's amazing when you think about what our Grand-Parents called the "good ole days" in the 40's, then my Parents remark about their "good ole days" in the 50's, and I remark to my kids about "good ole days" in the 60's and early 70's. The kids growing up today, can they possible say now is the "good ole days" in 20 years? I can't imagine.

There’s a line by Woody Harrelson’s character in True Detective that is a retort to this line of thinking. It’s easy to romanticize the past and this is something that every generation experiences as they age and deal with change. It’s wild to consider that the 90s were just as close to the 50s as they are to present day

“If things were so great, they never would have changed….. old men die and the world keeps on spinning.”

Oh, found the clip:

 

[fngTony]

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Living in the city sucks!

This is similar to me. Edge of city and nearby outdoors. Now if we lived on the edge of a city in the north east it would likely be a different story.

 

[Desk Jockey]

You adapt. I spent 20 years between NYC and LA. It is easier to get away from it than you think. Pick a big city and things start to get green and rural within an hour of downtown.

I killed my first whitetail with a bow probably 20 miles from Grand Central station (as the crow flies). i Have duck hunted near LaGuardia airport with planes flying overhead and spear fished within sight of the Hollywood sign. You can find all kinds of adventures In and near big cities.

 

[Mojave]

My wife wants to live in Orlando, she is from San Diego. She wants to be someplace the kids will have more to do.

I want to move back to home to the Northern Rockies or Alaska.

We live really remote in New Mexico for my job.

El Paso is a hard hour, Las Cruces in 30-50 minutes depending on where you are going.

This is not a bad place to be.

I am afraid of leaving the West and moving someplace she we will have to get a divorce for me to get out of. I don't think I will last more than a couple of years before I red pill myself and move back home.

 

[Pharmseller]

Pharmaceutical sales. Almost 26 years.




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[dboone3]

I live on the edge of a big city it is considered a “metro area”. If you add up all the different connected cities it’s 2.2 million people.

I hate the city I work in. Where I live is pretty nice.

Lots of bike paths, parks, hiking trails, laws are enforced, everyone is nice, everything is clean, and well maintained. 5 minute drive from my house is a pretty cool trail I hike a lot. I do a 5 mile figure 8. It’s pretty steep up hill for almost 1.5 miles, steep down hill for about a 1 mile, steep uphill 1 mile, then steep down hill for 1.5 miles. It’s all in the trees, I see deer and coyotes if early morning or late evenings.

5 minutes away there is also a pretty famous stealhead river. Lots of salmon and trout fishing nearby.

I have killed some really nice bears an hour away. This area also used to be some of the best blacktail deer hunting around. Those days are over, but there’s still deer. One of my best friends elk hunts about 1.5 hours away. He kills a bull most years. 2 bulls over 300 inches last 5 years.

I elk hunt 5-6 hour drive from home. My buddy and I kill bulls pretty much every year. It’s close enuff that can do 3 day trips over there no problem.
Archery season is a month long!

I’m 1.5 hours from the beach, basically at the start of the foothills of the cascade mountains.

I’m only about 5 minutes away from where there’s no more neighborhoods, and everyone is on some amount of acreage.

I’ve been doing my job for a long time. I’m set up where I can do the paperwork part of it at home if I want. If all my work is done I can head out of town on a Friday afternoon, and be at the beach, or central Oregon by dinner.

Where I am at is a pretty good place to live for me.

Is this Portland?

 

[wind gypsy]

Didn't read 7 pages but I really wish fewer people recognized the benefits of rural living and wanted to live in cities. In many parts of the country, the rural areas wont be that way for long unfortunately. It's sad.

 

[backyardbandit]

I (like backyardbandit, posted above) live in the greater STL area, on the southwest side. Actually in the northern end of a rural county (a conservative, red one), adjoining STL county. We are in a large development that has a lake and we have heavily wooded common ground behind us. Have deer in our yard almost daily, coyotes around, as well as raccoons. Yet I can be in the heart of downtown at Busch stadium in about 40 minutes.

I'd bet you live within 10 minutes of me in the same county. I'm less than 5 minutes from hwy 44, 45 minutes from catfishing the Mississippi river under the arch, but can do a mag dump off my deck if I'd like, and I have a bunch of hunting spots within 10-15 minutes up to 1000 acres can can shoot rifles safely as far as far as the gun can shoot.
Not exactly what I would call rural living, but it sure isn't city living!

 

[The10%]

I don't, and will never live in a city. But I do feel bad for my kids some times..... I grew up in a neighborhood where a group of us kids would play all day long, whether riding bikes, sports, or whatever.

We have a 3 houses on our Rd, and no other kids, so I find our 5,7, and 9 old getting bored... They have the benefit of being able to hunt starlings in the back yard w/ the red ryder, or take the xr50 out, but we have to drive 20min to take them to the park, or schedule play dates for them to socialize with other kids when they're not in school.

 

[HornPorn]

My wife wants to live in Orlando, she is from San Diego. She wants to be someplace the kids will have more to do.

I want to move back to home to the Northern Rockies or Alaska.

We live really remote in New Mexico for my job.

El Paso is a hard hour, Las Cruces in 30-50 minutes depending on where you are going.

This is not a bad place to be.

I am afraid of leaving the West and moving someplace she we will have to get a divorce for me to get out of. I don't think I will last more than a couple of years before I red pill myself and move back home.

Orlando is THE WORST place to live in Florida. Why would you move to a peninsula (Florida) where it is hot as Hades 10 months out of the year, choose to not live on the coast where the offshore breezes and saltwater is, and then also choose the biggest most populous of the landlocked places? Double whammy.

If you ever agree to move to Florida, push for the coast and a place on a saltwater canal (kids can fish, paddleboard, kayak, spearfish, surf, meet other kids who do the same), and make sure she understands you will be taking a certain number of trips West and North every year, and that it is not negotiable. But even then, I wouldn't do it!