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Team city! I can walk or take public transit and there is always something to do!
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I've only lived in the 'burbs, so I'm 100% team suburbs! I like visiting the city, but the thought of raising children and day-to-day living in the city overwhelms me. I think I'll stay behind the Orange Curtain for life!
@Ajsmommy: @regberadaisy:@rachiecakes: hahaha, this parking situation makes me think of my FIL. He's retired, so he is all about watching for these sort of "violations." Then all he can do about it is complain to his family, or does passive-aggressive stuff, like turning on his sprinklers to get the offending car wet.
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team country! plop me in a house in a middle of a cornfield and I'm a happy girl. This is how I grew up, this is how DH grew up, and this is how we plan on raising our family in the very near future. We actually talked to DH's family this weekend about land to build on, our new home will hopefully be happening sooner rather than later. Small town living is for me!
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@rachiecakes: @Ajsmommy: LOL I' ve never heard of that!
I thought of another e) if you have a fire hydrant in front of your house! At our old house we did and for a few days we parked in front of our neighbors house. The b!tch actually called the cops on us and said there was a abandoned car parked in front of her house for days. Mind you we had been living there for over a year by then and work so the car did not just sit there for days and she knew it was our car.@HabesBabe:
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Team city! Both DH and I grew up in typical small suburbs and found it boring. We like the easy commute, walkability, diversity, and general buzz of city life. The only issue we have is schools so at some point we will likely move to a better school district in a place with a similar city-ish feel.
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Something in between suburbs and country. I like enjoying nature and not feeling so overwhelmed and rushed by city living.
We live in the suburb but it's over crowded and you can walk everywhere so it feels busy and city-ish. I like big neighborhoods and big yards...not something you can find where I live.
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I guess I'm more city than burbs but the burbs I lived in previously were still very walkable and didn't feel like the burbs I live in now and have to drive everywhere.
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Team suburbs! Altho I grew up in a bustling city, I moved to the surburbs when I was 12. I hated it growing up b/c there was nothing to do, but when I moved back home after college and got a dog, I really loved it! DH and I are both homebodies who enjoy a more quiet life.
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@HabesBabe: LOL at your FIL!! I told my DH to mow the lawn and shoot the grass onto the car...Oops!! I'm so passive aggressive too.
@regberadaisy: The reason that car parks there is bc their driveway is full of motorcycles and vehicles so they park one car in front of their house and then one in front of ours. BUT past their house is vacant.. no houses, just trees so I wish they'd just park there instead!!
This is my typical view out my front windows/door
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@regberadaisy: City mouse here! DW and I talk about this all the time. We live in the city now, and if we were to move, we want to stay within the city. For some inexplicable reason the suburbs depress me. No offense to any suburban mice!!
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Team small city! Having said that, DH grew up in the suburbs and I grew up in the country! But this is our happy place, I think.
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It varies so much. Our city is super outdoor, but yet I don't have to drive. I am in nature constantly in my city, just a walk across the street. So, I guess outdoor cities are for me. I grew up in the country and didn't love it, but love the outdoors and lived off the grid and did outdoor wildlife work in college. Being in a mid-sized city with outdoor opportunities is a pretty good blend.
@wrkbrk: me as well!
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@sarac: I'm in pdx too!
I grew up in nyc and would have been perfectly fine raising kids there. That may still be in the cards at some point - we'll see. I have this lovely vision of seeing my kids go to the same hs as I did. NYC living is also vastly different now than when I was growing up and depending on where you lived. i kind of miss the raw NYC sometimes. It's what I'm familiar with.
Anyway, if I had to choose between city and suburb, i would choose city. We kind of have the best of both worlds where we are. Our city is small so it gets suburban-like pretty quickly. We're still only 10 minutes by car to downtown. We don't have a subway system but we can take the buses anywhere. We can also bike everywhere - can't wait for my daughter to master her two wheeler this summer. We have a yard and it's so nice to just send the kids out there and also keep an eye on them all while preparing a meal. We also have several playgrounds walking distance. What I love about living here is that everything is so close. We're 10 minutes away from some pretty great trail running/road biking options, the coast is an hour and half away, mountains are an hour from here, we can go camping as close as a half hour drive, there's farmland just outside the city, and wineries and vineyards are just an hour drive as well. And because our city is small with traffic at a minimum, it's so easy to spontaneously meet up with friends.
Also, as kids of immigrant parents, I think my kids will have a better, more enriched life than I did regardless of where we live. My parents just didn't have the time or resources to do much with us. -
Team suburbs! I like the convenience of everything I need within a 15 minute drive, but still being able to have lots of land, a large house, and most importantly, QUIET and CLEANLINESS. I've always wanted my home to be a haven of rest and relaxation, both indoors and out. I can make small spaces work, but the biggest gripes I had about city living were always noise and dirtiness. And the crazies. We have our crazies in the burbs too, but they are at least half an acre away in all directions
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@BoogieBea: It tickles me to hear Portland referred to as 'small', but I know it is compared to a real city! I love what we have here in terms of big city stuff - useful mass transit, lots of music, art, amazing food, one of the best park systems in the country. And yet, it isn't an overwhelmingly large city. It's all those things that I could just never leave behind - the parks, the music, the tons of stuff to do with your children. I left a smaller city (Eugene) 4 years ago, and I would have just hated raising a kid there - I'd have been so bored. It's easy to feel like a winning parent here because you can just go to a different park every day of the week.
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team country for sure! i'm originally from the desert and before becoming a mama though i was all about the city. entirely convenient for someone single and on the go but i will never see the appeal it has to a growing family. that said, i do enjoy living BETWEEN big cities and having that as a go-to when we need it but our life is at the foothills of the appalachian.
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I don't really care. We couldn't afford our size house in DC, it would be Very very expensive. I think there are pros and cons to everything.
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@LuLu Mom: this exactly. I grew up in a town of 400 and DH in a town of 1000. Cannot. Wait. To get back someday when DH finishes school.
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I will say once our kids are out of school we plan on buying condo in Hoboken or jersey city.
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I lived in the city in my early twenties and it was great, but I'm very content as a suburbanite now with my little family. I don't think I'd be happy in just any suburb, but I do like my town and what it has to offer.
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I grew up in the country but I wouldn't want to live there. I don't like having to jump in the car if I run out of milk. Or having 30 min school bus rides morning and afternoon. Or that there were hardly any kids nearby. And even if there were they were still a mile down the road. I also wouldn't like big city where I have no backyard and can't park my car either. I live in a small city (under 1 million) and am 10 min from downtown, tons of parks within walking distance, and still have a decent sized house and backyard. It's like suburbia except that our city isn't really big enough to have a suburbia.
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Team City, mainly because I hate driving. I think we have the best of both worlds, we live in the city and have a rural weekend home.
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@wrkbrk: haha I can definitely understand why some suburbs are depressing. Can we say Stepford Wives and cookie cutter developer homes?
@hilsy85: hahah if I could have a home Upstate like you I wouldn't mind living in the city half the time as well!
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Burbs 100%
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@regberadaisy: DH says that's the only reason he has lasted in the city as long as he has, because we have that house to escape to on the weekends!
if he had his way we'd move up there full time.
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@hilsy85: ha! My DH would have sky high blood pressure if we lived in NYC. Pretty sure he will be in jail for road rage murder as well.
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@hilsy85: @regberadaisy: this is a good point, we do spend every other weekend in Mystic, CT so maybe that satisfies a few things!
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@regberadaisy: hey watch it, I live in Stepford, CT!
@hilsy85: That would be my ideal, but I'd want a house at the beach, in addition to the city apartment.
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@looch: my DH is totally not a beach person so he had no interest in that! And I will say the nice thing about a house in the country is that we can use it year round (skiing in the winter, etc). But the beach is nice too!
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I'm torn between city and suburbs. I dislike having to get in the car to go anywhere and much prefer walking. I love having so many playgrounds and stores and restaurants within walking distance. I love that DH's commute is less than half an hour, even this winter when public transportation in our city went to sh!t. I dislike having no storage and not having another bedroom and the fact that a parking spot costs what a home would in other parts of the country!
For now we are team city, but we will probably move to a near suburb in the next few years. But my definition of "far" and "country" would make most people laugh since I have been in the city for so long!
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Hmm, it's hard to say...I'd like to be in the city, but in a house, not an apartment. I live in Houston right now, and that's definitely possible, though the houses in the city are much more expensive. We're saving up, living in an apartment now. I can do suburbs, but it would have to be SUPER close to the city. Like I grew up in a DC suburb, but it was less than a 10-minute drive or metro ride into DC.
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@hilsy85: yeah, see, I am not into skiing...I am afraid of heights! But you're right, you can also use it year round.
But it makes sense to have a second home. One of these days, lol.
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@rachiecakes: @Ajsmommy: you guys are making me laugh- parking in front of your own home?? I live in the neighborhood rachiecakes mentioned, famous for our space savers. If you got a spot on your own block before the first big storm you were soooooo lucky! (Hence the above mentioned parking spot costing the same as a small house other places!).
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@Ajsmommy: That's pretty annoying that they have enough vehicles to park in their driveway, in front of their house, AND in front of yours. The house I grew up in (where my parents still live) doesn't have a driveway, but we've never had more than two cars, which both fit in front of our house. We only take spaces in front of other people's houses if a) someone else is parked in front of ours or b) we have visitors and they park in front of another house.
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@Foodnerd81: totally was thinking of you! my first city home was E.3rd St.
there were nights I circled for 45 minutes, gave up and went to my folks' house an hour away, hahaha
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@rachiecakes: I'm on the west side which is definitely easier. But there have been a couple of days when our garage door was blocked with construction and I had to park on the street a block away and it made me really appreciate my parking spot. There is a house for sale across the street from me, but no parking. No way, not with two kids, as of this winter!!
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@MrsSCB: so annoying. But a single, young guy bought the house (it was a new build) and he has 2 room mates. So all three have vehicles and they also have multiple motorcycles, their driveway fills up quick and there's overflow every night.
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@sarac: love the parks here. Not too quiet and not too crowded. I like rolling into the park anytime and there'll be a tennis court available for me. I used to have to wait upwards of an hour and getting into fights for a court in nyc.
@regberadaisy: haha. road rage is a real thing! My husband likes to 'police' other drivers on the road.
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I can't vote!! We live in the country and really love it, but I think if it was possible and feasible for us to live in a big city I would take it.
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We live in what is a mix up of the suburbs and country. We're in a housing development (a small one) that is surrounded on all 4 sides by fields and farm animals. It's about a 10-15 minute drive to the grocery store, Target, and the hospital. I grew up in the countryside 45 minutes from the nearest store. That was a little bit too much for me, but I do like being a 10-15 minute drive away.
if he had his way we'd move up there full time.
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