Live in City or Countryside

Live in City or Countryside If you have an opportunity to choose a place to live, what will be the perfect place in your dream; the bustling city or the silent countryside? Nowadays, more and more people move their home to the countryside. “Although the UK is an urban society, more and more people are choosing to live on the edge of urban areas - with many relocating to the countryside. This is called counterurbanisation.”(http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/settlement/urbanisation_medcrev1.shtml). This condition has become an interesting social phenomenon. Moreover, people are more likely to go on vacation in some sweet little village or some famous and distinctive towns. There are a lot of differences between the city and the countryside, and when people consider living in either place the differences become more significant. People often think that living in the countryside is boring, inconvenient, and lonely, while living in the city seems more exciting and fashionable. But nowadays it is seems not a big case anymore. People can still find a lot of fun activities in a country lifestyle such as camping, hunting, building a tree house, fishing, framing, planting flowers and trees and so on. The purpose of this essay is to contrast the differences between living in the city or the countryside. There are three major differences between the city life and the country life; the environment is different, the life style is different and the people’s happiness and life satisfaction is different. Also they are the reasons that people are preferring living in the countryside. The first major difference between living in the city or in the countryside is the environment. The city is the culture and industrial center. There are modern buildings, many cars and people on the street, and the exhaust and dust fill the air; People hardly see the beautiful clear sky in the city. Also the city has a large