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Town or City ?
My FH and I recently moved to a town within 15 minutes of the city and we are having a hard time adjusting. Some of the reasons why we moved to the town is because its closer to my work, house prices are more reasonable and we wanted a change. We have been here for 1.5 years are still missing the city. We are going to give it another year and if we haven't changed our minds we are going to put the house up for sale. We miss ALL the stuff there is to do and see in the city. I miss the diversity and culture of the city.
Are you a town person or a city person and why do you prefer one over the other?
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Re: Town or City ?
I'm a city person. Always have been.
If you're only 15 mins away from the city though I don't see what the issue is. It seems like the best of both worlds - get the cheaper home and less of a commute but you can drive into the city in no time.
I guess I should explained better ... my bad. Its about 15 minutes to suburbia of the city and about 25-30 minutes to the core and the best parts. Still not too bad though. But when were on our way home from a day in the city, I feel a bit sad that we have to leave. Another reason why we are considering moving back to the city is because I probably won't be working at my current employer more than another year and there is so much more opportunity in the city.
I agree that it doesn't sound too bad. I live IN Toronto and it takes longer than that to get downtown! LOL
DH and I would love to live in a small town. I know we should take advantage of living in the city, but the reality is that 99% of the time we eat at chain restaurants and go to a movie theatre for entertainment. We could do those things anywhere. There's nothing here that we would miss (except maybe a few people). Traffic jams? Crowded sidewalks? Impossibly expensive housing? No thanks.
I am such a big city person! I love the culture, shopping, stuff to do with the kids etc. Calgary is even on the small side for me.
I could never be happy living in the country.
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I live in Burlington - to me this is a bit city... but its not THAT big as we're sorta squished between two large cities... Hamilton and Toronto. I think its great here, there's enough going on in Burlington to keep me happy, but within an hour (assuming no traffic or go train delays) I can be downtown Toronto.
I would probably prefer to live just a little north of here (10-15 minutes), there are some great small towns.
I'm originally from Napanee, then to Peterborough and I remember thinking Peterborough was huge when we moved there. However when it came to settling down with DH, he couldn't do the work he does in Peterborough, so needed to move so he could be close to the City still.
I love it here though... hoping too much doesn't change at work so I get to stay here... or they ship me off to somewhere super cool.
Definately a city person. I like having close (even walking distance) access to all stores, hospital, restaurants, theaters, parks, etc.
However, since we live a block away from a huge mall where a lot of teenagers hangout(skip school and get involed with the wrong crowd), we are thinking about moving to a suburb of Edmonton once the kids get a bit older. I think that if we are only 10-15 minutes away from the city, it won't be too bad.
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I guess it depends on how you define 'city'. In your situation I think it is the best of both worlds. It sounds like you can get to the parts of the city that you want to quicker than if you actually lived there.
We don't live downtown but we also don't live in the country. We are more country adjacent
I love it here. Sure sometimes I miss the GTA and how easy it was to just hop on the GO train and be downtown but then we wouldn't have the house and property we do. I find that there is so much culture here, lots of fantastic restaurants, sporting events plus all the nature etc.
I definitely live in the country, as in about least 2 hours from a big city, but I do live close to town. I am small town kind of person.
I just find the city to busy, fast and just consumeristic in general. I did live in Edmonton for a couple years but definitely enjoy the small town life. The way I look at is when I lived in Edmonton and wanted to do something fun I'd hang out with friends and I can do that anywhere. I didn't tend to "take advantage of the city", so to speak.
I think this is a good point, although not everyone will agree. I grew up in Vancouver and we moved to a smaller city in the BC interior a few years ago. In January we went back to Vancouver for an appointment for my son, and we went back to the mall I used to shop at, etc, for old times sake. It was so weird- I couldn't believe how consumeristic it all was. I didn't notice it when I lived there but now that I've moved away, well, I don't miss it at all.
And I couldn't believe how much time we spent in traffic! OMG! We don't have traffic where I live now, so when we were commuting from my friend's house to Children's, we gave ourselves 90 minutes to get there, figuring that would be tons of time. It wasn't. We were 40 minutes late, I couldnt believe it. And then I remembered how much time I used to spend in traffic every day, which I had totally forgotten about- it used to take me 40 minutes to get to my workplace 10 kms away. I definitely don't miss it.
I grew up in a small town and don't ever want to have that experience again. I hated that everyone always knew what everyone else was doing, even if you didn't want them to. At least where I lived it was.
I think you've got it made though. You live in a small town and are only 15 minutes from the city. I live IN the city and it takes me anywhere from 20 - 45 just to get to a movie.
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I think it really depends on where you grew up or what you are used to.
I grew up on a farm, but moved to Edmonton to go to university. I loved being near shopping and being able to walk to the grocery store if I needed something (the nearest town when I was growing up was a 30 minute drive and the nearest city was 2.5 hours), but as a pp expressed, I didn't take advantage of all the great things in the city as much as I could have. I was really used to my quiet life and didn't need to go out to all the festivals or find something to do every weekend.
After my DH and I got married we moved to a rural town (pop = 250) 3 hours from Edmonton and I noticed that there were a few things that I missed being able to do in the city, but it didn't take long to adjust back to rural life. There are some great things that the city has to offer that we like to go to (Taste of Edmonton, Fringe, Pets in the Park etc.), but we're happy just to go to the city for a weekend. We go to all the places we got to love, but at the end of the day or weekend we get to go back to our quiet, low cost of living home.
It's kind of funny now because we find ourselves complaining about our neighbors or the 'traffic' down our road in our small town. We both grew up in the country and have found that even a 3 stop sign town is too big for us some days. All we have to do is think of what it was like in Edmonton and we stop complaining fast!
Sorry for the novel, but what I wanted to get at is that we made our decision because we are more comfortable with rural living. If you grew up in the city I can totally understand how tough it would be to adjust to a smaller community. Hope it all works out for you!
Town. Way late to the thread but wanted to put that in.
Our kids have amazing outdoor spaces to play in, four seasons of the year. It takes 15 minutes to get anywhere. You can grocery shop, go to the hardware store, pharmacy and post office without stressing over traffic, parking or finding what you need.
I know my neighbours. All of them. I know my mom's neighbours. When I go anywhere, I see people I know and familiar faces.
If I want to go to the city for an event or some urban time, it is just a 2 hour drive.
I hope to always have my primary residence in a town.