What sort of settlement do you live in?

[TP Rich]

I live in Maidstone, which is a town in England. Just wondered what sort of area most people here lived in.

 

[kimahri]

We live in Teepee's.

 

[Thekingin64]

Mainly, A very scenic village in North East Wales called Rhydymwyn. Every other weekend, when I'm at my dad's, I'm in the town of Mold.

 

[TP Rich]

Just had a look at some pictures of your village - it looks gorgeous! I really hope I'll be living in a more rural area when I'm an adult - the urban lifestyle is just too noisy, busy, depressing and boring.

 

[Ben]

I really hope I'll be living in a more rural area when I'm an adult - the urban lifestyle is just too noisy, busy, depressing and boring.

You live in Maidstone, that's hardly "urban". "Crap" would be a better way to describe that place.

I live in the centre of the second largest urban area in the United Kingdom <3

 

[furie]

I live in a county town. That means that at some point in the past, it had delusions of being a city, but was too crap. The populace still think it's a city, but better because it doesn't have the noise, pollution, crimes, etc. In reality it's just like an ordinary town only duller and more stuck up.

 

[Hixee]

Well I switch between Bristol and Sheffield which I think, by anyone's definition, count as cities.

As for where I'd prefer to live... I don't know. I love the outdoors and being isolated, but only when I want to be. I wouldn't want to be miles from the nearest train station, supermarket etc. This is partly the reason Sheffield pulled me in so much, when I realised that I could cycle for half-an-hour East at be at Meadowhall (not that I ever go, but that's not the point), ten minutes East and be at the city centre/train station, but an hour to the West and I was at this bad-boy:

<3

 

[nadroJ]

I live in Southampton, s'alright.

I much prefer places like my home town Waltham Abbey. 40 minutes from central London by tube, but far enough away to have a quiet life if you so wish. Perfect balance if you ask me.

I love Waltham Abbey, it's such a cute little British town. Our high street is still pedestrianised and everything <3 Oh, and the grave of King Harold is here, which is pretty awesome.

 

[ciallkennett]

I go between Derby (where uni is), Milton Keynes (where my heart is) and London (where Mother lives).

Derby is technically a city, but feels like a town. Milton Keynes I always call a town, although I do feel it should be a city (and we've gone over this debate many a-time, so no, we shall not revisit it again) and London is the Mecca of cities in England.

But Derby and MK are my main bases.

 

[jayjay]

I switch between a large-ish village (Moulton, Cheshire) and Cambridge, which, like Ciall said about Derby, feels more like a town than a city. Being in a large town/small city is much better for me. It's not sparse and far away from everything, but it's small enough that you can know the place well and probably makes socialising easier (obviously being at uni helps with the whole social thing).

 

[Pokemaniac]

For my studies, I live in Trondheim. Should qualify as a city, though I live a few minutes away from downtown.

Home with my parents (still calling it home), we live near a town, but it's hardly urban. Suburb, perhaps? There are lots and lots and lots of houses, but any shops or workplaces are far away, apart from the schools that are scattered in between, and the grocery store by the railway station.

Traditionally, Norway hasn't been a land of towns. Apart from the major cities (about ten of them in total), people lived at or near farms, scattered all over the country. Villages or city centres only started appearing when the railroads were built. Demography-wise, it's quite fascinating. It still isn't uncommon to live twenty minutes away from your closest neighbour.

 

[EnigmaHyena]

I switch between Enfield in north London and Duston in Northampton, but I stay in Enfield most the time. I've got good Tube, train and bus links but it's not very interesting and is full of chavs.

 

[Ian]

I live in a town centre. Much prefer it to sub-urban areas, but the countryside is where I'd most like to live.

 

[Colossus]

I live in the old port town of Kings Lynn, its fairly quiet here, there`s a lot of Eastern Europeans here, but other then that its a pretty sleepy town, certainly more so then where I grew up In Hemel Hempstead.

 

[Error]

I grew up in the country, where everything was at least a 5 minute drive away. Right now I live in the middle of downtown, and I miss the quietness of the country. Mostly, I miss not hearing police sirens every night.

 

[Ben]

Duston in Northampton.

Duston's disgusting <///3

 

[TP Rich]

You live in Maidstone, that's hardly "urban". "Crap" would be a better way to describe that place.

Actually, it's both. You can't have the word 'urban' without 'crap' unless the area happens to be Milton Keynes.

 

[SaiyanHajime]

What, exactly, do the outer boroughs of Greater London count as?

 

[TP Rich]

What, exactly, do the outer boroughs of Greater London count as?

Well, I suppose they'd count as seperate towns. If you live somewhere such as Croydon, Bromley, Bexley or Enfield, I guess you could say you live in a town, personally I would. It's debatable, really.

 

[Ben]

You live in Maidstone, that's hardly "urban". "Crap" would be a better way to describe that place.

Actually, it's both. You can't have the word 'urban' without 'crap' unless the area happens to be Milton Keynes.

What...

You know usually when you say "you can't have X without Y" it's because Y is actually in X?

Like, "you can't have Dickens without dick!"

And it almost seems like you're saying Milton Keynes is the only non-crap Urban Area in the country. Which would be... just... well...