anyone here move from a small(ish) city to a major city?

[schi0249]

I've lived in Rapid City, SD pop. 50k and 2nd largest city in the state. I've also lived in Minneapolis, MN a top 15 metro. I've also lived in cities between the two in size. I can adapt to either. But I really prefer the activities that a large city has to offer.

[Dig]

I've lived in small towns and I've lived in a city, but I've never been old enough to really appreciate the difference between the two locales, although it should be noted that they all are in Kansas. I guess the biggest culture shock I received was graduating high school in a town called Newton and going to university in the college town of Lawrence. If anything, there is certainly much more night life in Lawrence than I have ever been exposed to before, especially with a midnight curfew in Newton.

I expect earth-shattering culture shock when this rural Kansas boy goes to study for a semester in Tokyo two months from now.

[wip3outguy7]

I grew up in a small town in East Texas. I hated every minute of it. Luckily, I spent most of my childhood watching movies (latchkey kid) and I never picked up the accent.

When I was in high school I moved to Houston. I will never live in a small town again. However, cities have their downsides. Houston grew far too large for my wife and me. We finally gave up 2 years ago and moved to Austin, where we reside now. Austin is a fairly large city trying to fool itself and its inhabitants into believing it is still the small town it was 30 years ago. It has its humor but the "vibe" is mostly annoying.

Anyway, back on topic. I do not fondly think of the small town in my childhood at all. I have not been back since I moved away. I will remain in the "city" for the rest of my days.

[KDY v-150]

i live in a town called pratt. When i was 20, we moved out of what was my home for those 20 years, out of a little town called iuka. The population in iuka was and still is less than 100 people. from there, i moved to wichita to go to college. (all in kansas if you couldn't guess). Once i moved, i couldn't believe how much i missed iuka. I mean you had absolutley no crime in iuka, Hell, there was only one sheriff that would drive through town once an evening. In wichita, you where lucky if your house or your car didn't get broken into (both my appartment and car got broken into, and several items stolen, including a laptop, ps2, xbox, two 12" subwoofers and a 250 watt amp). needless to say, after that happened, i moved back to iuka, and i had an all new respect for the laid back folks in the smaller towns. the only thing i dislike about the small towns is the lack of activities. Wichita was way funner, but had a price. i would rather live in a small town and have nothing to do, than have unlimited options as to what to do, and have to live with that amount of crime every day.

This is very, very interesting. I used to live in general suburbia of Southern California (population 130,000), and have recently spent time in Taipei. In Southern California, there are certain places where you do or don't go, and of course you watch out for crime. While in Taiwan, though, I don't think I've felt safer than in my apartment high-rise. It just seems to me that the anonymity afforded to my things makes the big city so much safer than that segmented picket-fence life in suburbia.

I guess it's more like, "Who's going to go up to the 18th floor, 3rd door on the right, and try to break in?"