Smaal town dude with big city attitude

kelib

Small town dude with big city attitude!



OK, I took this sentence from an "old" pop song but this is exactly how I feel right now. I was forced to move away from the big city as house prices were booming here some few years back. We needed a bigger apartment after my daughter was born and I could choose between some 2 bedroom condo and a big single family house with 2 car garage some 30 miles north of the city for the same price. I took the house and man, do I regret this decision. It's a town of ca. 15.000 people but actually feels smaller than that. Nothing ever happens here. My wife agrees with me and we're seriously thinking about a move back to downtown Copenhagen.



Never before in my life have I felt so isolated socially. How about you folks. Are you 'Small Town' type of people or the 'Big City' ones?

roduk

Does anything ever happen in Denmark?

Me, I'm a country bumpkin.

There's even a <a href="http://www.catnip.co.uk/cerne/cerne.html"; target="_blank">chalk cutting</a> of me locally.



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tankertoad

This really hits close to home! My wife and I are totally location sensitive. Right now, I drive 70 miles one way to work because anyplace closer would have driven us crazy as there is no culture, no community, no "feeling" between here and there. I endure the daily commute and 2x home prices just so I wake up in a bed in a home in a place that makes me happy. It's a curse really. I have to change jobs (military) in January and my current home puts me at 100 miles each way to the new job. I don't think I can handle THAT commute every day so it's either spend a couple of nights a week near work (which takes away from family time) or move closer. To move where everyone else who works there lives, I would be 30 min. from work in a nice, affordable house but it's almost two hours from the part of Los Angeles that gives us a rush. We'd go crazy in suburbia. Or we can move to Pasadena, which gets me back to an hour commute (do-able) and is only 30 min. from LA but is so expensive, I have to trade a 3BR house with yard and garage to a 2BD condo for more money. I hate it that I can't be content living away from it all and that I have to compromise something to be happy.

mrmister

I live in NYC, and have resolved never to let that happen to me--I feel your pain, as rent can be hard to handle, but losing my social contacts and neighborhood for a cheaper rent in a place I ultimately don't want to live ain't worth it.



Best of luck!

eds66

I live in Rosslyn, a stone throw away from Washington DC. Cross the bridge over Potomac and you are in Georgetown. I dread provincial living. Move back closer to life that is both urban and urbane.