Country or City or somewhere between

I live in the country my closest neighbor is two miles away not counting my uncle, and since he is on our property he doesn't count. And so I wondered how many here lived in the country or the city or somewhere in between. When I wake up and look outside I see my apple orchard and my pond and my horses and I love it. And tree lines all around me. At night I can listen to the coyotes and the owls and sometimes I will hear a bobcat which is very interesting to hear. I love to sit out on my front porch and just watch the breeze go through my trees and move the water on my pond. And there is nothing better than watching the birds in the spring. I don't even mind being teased about how I talk as if you listen to me its very clear that I was raised in the country. I sound country even for Kentucky.

So tell us about where you live and if you even have a front porch. I would like to know what you enjoy about where you live and if your accent gives it away as mine does.

It sounds lovely... I always dreamed of living in the country, who knows one day?
My accent gives out where I am from, but just because I am from Brazil and that is one tough accent to hide! In there, I had no accent, as I am from Brasilia, the capital, a new city in the middle of the country - a big mixture of people from all over - the accents got so diluted, they got lost

We live in the suburbs. We have a nice backyard, with a fire pit and a great deck for having bbqs in the summer. We often see deer walking down the street or hanging out in the yard. Our neighbours are close, but it's a decent neighbourhood.

I live in a city. As you can see by my location, a pretty big city.

I love New York. I came to visit my cousin in the 60's and stayed for a week, and actually cried when the plane was taking off to take me back to Minnesota. I love Minnesota, but New York got in my blood the minute I stepped off the plane on that first visit.

It's electric and it's creative and it's exciting. Every once in awhile I need a break, so going back to Minneapolis a couple of times a year to visit my mom takes care of my fix for "slowing down".

But I can also come up to my apartment on the 23rd floor, with a terrific view of the midtown Manhattan skyline, and feel like I've been removed from the crowds and the noise and get all rejuvenated for the next day!

We live in the country up on a hill. And, other than the snow and ice during the winter months, we're OK here. We have a beautiful view out of our front windows. We don't have to travel far to do things; there are malls and restaurants not too far away anymore, if you like that sort of thing.

We're lucky in that we enjoy our neighbors and we've all started to get together once or twice a summer for a nice picnic.

We probably have close to 1-1/2 acres now and we're trying to buy two acres behind our land. Our house is a bi-level, so no front porch....and do you know, that's the worst thing about our house?! No front porch! But we do have land to garden in and grass to mow. We have an inground pool out back with a picket fence and an arbor with clematis. Lots of fir trees along the rear border of our back yard. DH loves trees, so we have maple trees, Colorado blue spruce, black walnuts, oak trees, a mountain ash (that we may have to cut down this year because of the ash borer finding its way to PA), some silver maples, etc. This coming spring, DH wants to plant two horse chestnut trees in the side yard; we had a mature silver maple there, but lost it to a nasty lightning strike a few years ago. It's just property like any other property in the US, but it's ours.

The closest town to us is an older town, very Victorian, especially in the winter time during the holidays when the town is dressed in its best finery; we even have a Victorian Christmas parade that's just lovely. And around here, people still go to parades. Lots of shade trees line the streets. It's a university town....anybody ever hear of Lewisburg, PA, home of Bucknell University? Very eclectic stores and restaurants in Lewisburg. Just small town, USA.

To the immediate south of us is Selinsgrove, PA, home to Susquehanna University. Selinsgrove is also pretty.

Lots of deer in the back yard. We've seen bear from time to time. Very early one summer morning, I awakened to lots of chattering in the front yard. I got out of bed to see what was going on. A mama raccoon was out for a walk with her three babies and she was scolding them to move faster through the yard. She kept yelling at them about something. The game commission says we don't have mountain lions around here, but they've been seen. And we've seen pawprints on our property. So who knows? Lots of foxes, lots of small wildlife. One morning I was out for my walk and way down in the gully, there was a gaggle(?) of wild turkeys trying to find breakfast, I guess. You know, those birds are big!

And that's probably way more than you wanted to know!

I live in a low rise building with 6 apartments. Nothing peaceful and serene about it At least there are no screaming kids in our building.

I grew up in Chicago, then moved to the country for about 15 years. I had an 1884 Victorian farmhouse complete with wrap around porch and spent a lot of time watching the world go by from that porch. We had all sorts of wild life at that place - deer, coyotes, fox, bobcats, snakes, badgers, raccoons, possums, birds of all sizes, and we strongly suspect that there was a cougar living somewhere close by. We moved to a home that is somewhere in between urban and rural about 5 years ago - 3 acres that back up to a small lake. Now we spend our time sitting on our deck that faces the lake.

I loved the hustle and bustle of city life, enjoyed the peacefulness of the country, and now live close enough to the city on a peaceful setting to be able to enjoy both.

I live in the city...almost downtown. If I had a choice I'd live in the city or somewhere in between city and country. I like easy access to stuff.

We live in the country on a dirt road. The only neighbor that lives past us (1/4 mile away) only goes to work and church so very little traffic. I love it out here! We are on top of a mountain and from my window I can see three mountains away. We have deer, wild turkey, bears and bobcats. There's a little mom and pop store at the end of the road we can get small stuff like bread or milk, and getting to town is only a 10 minute drive. It kinda sucks in winter because apparently West Virginia doesn't use salt (they use cinders instead), and there are only 2 snow plows for the entire county. But almost everyone has 4 wheel drive vehicles. I, unfortunately, do not so last winter was a disaster! But I still love it. I grew up in town (can't really call it a city ) and our neighbors were right on top of us. No privacy what so ever. You couldn't pay me to move to the city. I like the idea that I can run around my house naked if I wanted to (not that I would! But I could! Might scare the turkeys though).

I live in between. Downtown Charleston is about 30-40 minutes away. My friend lives about 30 minutes away in the other direction toward the country (where she has her own gated street, a pond, and lots of other stuff, her parents also have a house back there. If you can have a turkey shoot with shotguns, and use hand guns and rifles to shoot cans on your property, then I think you live in the country )

Hubby and I live on 1.56 acres of land, but it's attached to another 3.44 acres, where his parents live. His dad had 5 acres and gave us our piece in '07 to have a house built. Even though we picked our house to be built, I'd like our front porch to be larger. One day maybe We're also going to add onto our back porch in the future, make room for an in-porch hot tub, and sitting area.

The only thing I'd change is that I'd have a fence or tree line blocking my neighbors (we used to but when we cleared the land, hubby had it almost ALL cleared), and still wouldn't mind a fence separating us from the in-laws.

City boy here. I like it. It's generally quiet and a nice place to live. My back deck is awesome. One part of it is 15'x15' and the other is 18'x18'. Great for parties . But someday, I want to live out in the country. If my dream comes true and I can adopt a cougar and maybe a few other exotics, I'll have to. I don't think my neighbors will like a 200 pound cat jumping the fence and walking up to their back door .

We live in the suburbs I guess is what you would call it. We are about 5 minutes in either direction from main roads with all the stores on them and about 15 minutes from Downtown, and about 20 from Westtown.
Downtown is where Gary works and all the hipper stores and restaurants are, as well as Neyland Stadium and University of TN.
Westtown has all of the high end stores, as well as the outlets and all of the other places to shop.
We live off of a busy road. Our road right now is taking some detour traffic but its usually not that busy. We have a large sloping back yard that we have been working on clearing. The past owners let it grow up very badly! But we are going to build a small gazebo and hang our hammock chairs in the trees out there! We also have a slate tiled patio with a nice BBQ, Patio furniture, and a firepit, we spend a lot of time out there during spring-fall! Our front yard is mostly level with 2 very large trees and a small magnolia tree which I love!!

We live out in the country in a 150 year old farm house. The house next to us used to be our barn probably 60 or 70 years ago.

I have a lovely front porch with 4 white pillars. Our wicker chairs are out there all summer and we over look a deep creek just across the road.

A gully cuts next to our house and behind. The grandkids go sledding in the winter and my son used to take his inflatable boat in when the creek backs up through a culvert in the spring.

There are huge pine trees and maple trees here. Kind of nerve wracking in a strong wind. There is the little red barn where they used to have a horse and even before that, pigs. And an old foundation from a smoke house that now grows peonies.

I have spoken to a lady who used to live here and said at that time, people would come for miles around to bring in the hay, and then have a huge picnic on the lawn.

I was born nextdoor and down through the years, always felt a draw here. Thirty years ago, we bought it and I raised my kids here as a single mom. There are tons of racoons, owls, fox, all kinds of wildlife. There are woods behind the gully that go for miles. The window glass is wavy it is so old.

But, it takes a lot of work to keep up. Our kitty cemetary is behind the red barn. That is where we will be too.

I have a connection to this place that I cannot explain. Spring time, there are loads of wild roses through the woods and gully and crab apple trees. This place is part of me, and I will never leave here.

Home is where my heart is.

I live in a city but if I drive about 30 miles I can be in a country atmosphere here in NJ. There is no doubt that the scenery is much prettier in the country and there was a time I wanted to move to a more rural area but now I just couldn't give up the closeness of everything in the city. I can walk to a lot of places if I wanted too.

When I look out of the window all I see is another mobile home altho the folks who live across from me have a beautiful area with flowers and shrubs. They have much more space than most of us who live here.

As I've said before, it's all what you're used too. At my age now I couldn't live in the boonies, way too lonely and far away from everything. I was born in the city and I'll die in the city.

I'm currently at the beach, but by next late-spring, I'll be mobile in a camper van. So, basically, I can go pretty much wherever I want! Noisy neighbors? Get in the seat and turn the key! Tired of the area? Drive! Want a beautiful lake/creek/ocean view to wake up to? Drive!

I live in a small country town, but I'm near the town centre so have neighbours near by. We just have a supermarket, chemist, post office and bakeries in town but a much larger shopping centre is just 25 minutes away.

I love where I live, sitting under the verandah listening to cows, sheep and chickens. I could never live in the city - and I couldn't have a cattery there, most breeders live in the country and some in the suburbs.

I grew up in a tiny michigan town of 185 people, with 90% dirt roads. Then I moved to Chicago for college, where I still am due to grad school. I guess I have experienced the two extremes, though I still absolutely love being out in the country.

I live in the suburbs, and have for the past 10 years. At first I hated it, since I was raised in a city and got used to being around lots of people, watching people dressed in different styles which inspired me to always wear the latest trends, unlike the suburbs where it's not all that uncommon to see people in their PJs at wal mart...I also used to love the ability to go anywhere you want within the city with public transportation available. I know people in big cities are usually less friendly than suburbs and country, but to me I never felt that way- people just mind their own business more when you're in a city which is nice ...

Originally Posted by Tavia'smom

I live in the country my closest neighbor is two miles away not counting my uncle, and since he is on our property he doesn't count. And so I wondered how many here lived in the country or the city or somewhere in between. When I wake up and look outside I see my apple orchard and my pond and my horses and I love it. And tree lines all around me. At night I can listen to the coyotes and the owls and sometimes I will hear a bobcat which is very interesting to hear. I love to sit out on my front porch and just watch the breeze go through my trees and move the water on my pond. And there is nothing better than watching the birds in the spring.

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That sounds fantastic, and where I hope to be soon. I can wait.

I currently live in the city, though, and I hate it.

We live in the country too.

Our house is on a bit over 5 acres with my garden shed and Neil's super fancy "barn/workshop.
We have a front porch but there really isn't much of a view (cornfield anyone?) So we use the brick patio we built about 5 years ago. Much more private-don't have to see all the farm equipment driving past. That's the only downside. The area of NE Wisconsin we live in is nicknamed "little california" due to all the large dairies around us. The worst is a 4900+ (cows) dairy about 5 miles away that was started about 10-12 years ago.
They need alot of land and we are on a county road so all the farm equipment (I'm not taking tractors) go up and down our road. The worst is when the hay is cut as many of these large farms use semi's to transport the harvests. Then the manure tankers (think gas station tankers) constantly up and down the road. It always seems they spread manure on the most humid days of the year.

But now its quiet. We live about halfway between Green Bay and the "FoxCities" which has the 2nd largest shopping mall and surrounds in the state.

And we can always head "up north" to our 170 acres.