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[miauw62]

I also get the best of both worlds, I live in Belgium

[Dutchling]

Heh.

Two very sad worlds, since none of them contain the Netherlands if that's the best you can get.

[Knit tie]

I live in a huge city but spend most of my weekends on a dacha. It doesn't get better than this.

[Descan]

...

I sleep much better with traffic outside my window...

I like the visuals of towers piercing the sky.

I like looking out from 50+ meters above the ground.

I like the skyline and the lights and the breeze and air.

I like the smell of the city and I like the crowds that I can flow through with a dance and a twist.

I like the street-cars and bicycles and cars lined up along the road as far as you can see.

I like the sound of the subway.

I like the dense corridors that feel like a grand hall, with towering structures making up the walls on either side of 5 lane roads.

... I like the city~

[Arx]

I sleep much better with traffic outside my window...

What kind of traffic? It took me months to get used to huge buses passing by, and I never got used to drunks walking along screaming in bastard Afrikaans.

And then there are the suburbs - the worst of all possible worlds.

Hey, I live in suburbia and I quite like it. Of course, anywhere in a city on the beach is tolerable...

[mastahcheese]

I don't!
Granted, the people who drive by my street are drunk rednecks who customize their trucks to be EAR-BLEEDINGLY LOUD and blare country music out the window.
I hate this state.

[wobbly]

Where I'm living now is big enough to have all the things a city should have & small enough that I can still see the stars properly at night. Plus people here have about the most laid back attitude I've seen. Is good.

[Descan]

My city is Toronto. I mean I live in Mississauga, which is trying to become it's own Toronto but still basically is the Toronto sub-suburbs.

So basically cars and streetcars~

I'm sad that it took me so long to edit that post, now people have already read the original post and won't read the edit. v_v

[Worldmaster27]

Mostly happy but still somewhat terrifying:

My friend and I got our learner's permits*! Though it did take a few hours with waiting and some technical hiccups.
^{*Technically, we receive our actual permits in 7-10 days through the mail.}

Spoiler: Terrifying part, not for the weak of heart (click to show/hide)

But now it is infinitely more possible for me to accidentally run someone over/get in a crash/destroy everything...

[Orange Wizard]

Congratulations! It won't be long now before people expect you to drive wherever, whenever, for no adequately explained reason.
It's also a lot harder to kill someone by crashing into them than you might expect. Try not to crash into people, though. It's really difficult to clean blood off a windscreen.

Anyway, on the city topic,

I like X aspect of the city

I absolutely despise most of the things you listed there, and I've never actually been to a proper city-city. The largest "city" near the fairly rural district where I live has about three hundred thousand people, an whenever I go there, I think it's too big and far too busy. Give me quiet country roads and trees and paddocks and sheep over highways and cars and towers and crowds every single day of the week.
I'm guessing you grew up in the city. It's interesting how one's upbringing affects what they like or dislike.

[Bauglir]

Man, I grew up in the suburbs and I hate it here. It just feels subtly wrong and un-homelike, which is impressive considering I've spent more time in this house than any other single building I've ever been in. Not nearly as comfortable as the aforementioned sorta-city (which, on further investigation, is actually only the fifth-closest thing to a city we have, at an embarrassingly tiny 70k).

[Tiruin]

I like X aspect of the city

I absolutely despise most of the things you listed there, and I've never actually been to a proper city-city. The largest "city" near the fairly rural district where I live has about three hundred thousand people, an whenever I go there, I think it's too big and far too busy. Give me quiet country roads and trees and paddocks and sheep over highways and cars and towers and crowds every single day of the week.
I'm guessing you grew up in the city. It's interesting how one's upbringing affects what they like or dislike.

I think Descan's note is far different on the idea where you're poking ...Or am I too focused on the 50m+ heights or the extremely subtle details?
But maybe that's just me. Our city here is 'rural' enough to be a mix of both natural and artificial aesthetics. Long living pine trees interspersed by the road sides and the parks and the very obvious fact that one direction leads to a scenic view of the mountains in all their bluish depth and distance...then there's the clouds and terraces for farms. .__.

It's quiet here. If you'd ignore the rain. x3 Because if not, then its a very 'busy' city, that way.

[Alev]

I'm guessing you grew up in the city. It's interesting how one's upbringing affects what they like or dislike.

Most people I know who live in or grew up in cities (like me, for example) prefer the country, and vice versa.

[TamerVirus]

Always is the case in cities:

"What's that smell?"

It's piss.
It's ALWAYS piss

[My Name is Immaterial]

Do sewers count as piss?