It’s near enough the big city that I can go do fun things when I want, but it’s quiet here and not a lot of traffic.

Nice climate. Walkable (and safe). Good transit. World famous for weird lefty politics, science, free software, and psychedelia.

The food.

You can walk eveywhere in a short amount of time. I have and outdoor market, a buchers’ market, a greengrocer, and at least 3 supermarkets, 3 corner stores, 2 confectioneries/ice cream shops, multiple flower shops, hairdressers, etc. within a 3-4 minute walk. It’s not any sort of major metropolis, it’s a town of ~17 000 people with no building taller than 5 stories.

Our metro parks are absolutely incredible!

I don’t really like it (not that I dislike it). It just makes sense to be here for the work and the public transportation in case I don’t have a car for any length of time

My closest neighbor is almost 1000’ away.

Probably one of the safest cities to be in during an earthquake, all the buildings that were going to fall down already have done (Christchurch NZ).

I get left alone for the most part. Not many people.

“Oh you’re from place? What do you do out there?” “We leave and go to the next town over.”

This was a conversation I had numerous times. But in the end I grew up in a town where you pretty much got left alone and that was nice.

I’ve since moved to a different town that’s about as uninteresting.

It’s not as hot as the southern half of the state

We have some extremely beautiful coastlines & mountains right at our doorstep

We almost unanimously, as a city of about half a million people, despise the Tories. The whole country could turn blue and we’d still be red.

Entheogenic plants are legal.

Lots of green areas and the river and lake. It feels nice to walk around.

Birds singing. I live in a small town even though I prefer spending time in large cities. But this is what I miss when I’m out. Well, this and fresh air.

The oatcakes

We have tons of stuff to do all year. From hosting a groundhog’s day, pride parade, jazz concerts, comedians, and such. Biking could be better, but we are trying.

Just about everything - by the water, friendly neighbours, short walk to my favourite activity, half hour bus ride to a wonderful city.

I used to live in said city and travel to my town fairly often, and I remember walking along my street and saying, “those houses look like they’d be nice to live in”. I’ve been living in one of those houses for over 20 years now and yes, it is very nice.

I like here, there is always something going on to keep you entertained.

It’s very walkable. I can get to most places easily or just take a stroll around the neighborhood.

We live in a little town right on the outskirts of the state capital. Everything is in walking or biking distance - supermarkets, doctors, schools. We live close to a river and have a few smaller nature reserves nearby. There’s a lot of different activities the kids can do. The neighborhood is a good mixture of older couples and young families.

It’s not the prettiest place on earth, but I’m happy we’re settled here.

I feel extremely safe here. It is walkable and transit is excellent.

The only things I like about the city I live in now is that I can walk to more places than I could where I lived previously, and if I can’t I can actually get delivery service for almost anything.

But I miss the small town I came from. I miss the quiet and actually feeling safe to go for a walk at night.

We have more or less everything you’d want (pool, cinema, library, shopping, restaurants, a small theather, parties/events, decent public transportation, i think some sports too (i don’t care), some nice rewilded spots, walkable/cyclable dimensions) but it’s still pretty quiet.

It’s small, it is close to some take-a-ways and a small shop, and it is really close to fields, nature and the like.

And it has a pink church. Not religious in any form, but having a pink church is, idk, funny :D

That I’m leaving

Nothing happens , if it wasn’t for the internet I wouldn’t know if anything of consequence is happening at all. Is small you can walk the whole thing in about 3 hours or so, theres’s either rain or sunshine no more.

Just moved here. It’s small, kind of rural and therefore very quiet. I grew up in a rural area but for the last 25 years or so I’ve lived in various larger towns and cities. It’s nice to be back in a quite, rural area again.

I always dreaded the idea of living in the suburbs, but over covid we needed to move and i’m so glad we moved to our city. it’s an older first tier suburb so there’s a lot of diversity here. there’s an African market down the street and a Mexican bodega in the other direction. There’s tons of spots that are locally owned, the sorta places you wouldn’t find further out in the burbs where everything is a chain. We’re also only about a 10 minute drive from our old house to so it’s easy to visit our old haunts from time to time.

I grew up in a typical suburb, but I moved for a job to one of the largest cities in the world. I love it here. I’m in walking distance of a metro station on the main line through town. On the way there I pass a lot of small shops selling everything I would ever need. Above the station there’s a 5-story mall with a movie theater, restaurants, everything really. There’s so much to do here, every weekend there’s something new to discover.

That being said, I’m considering a move to Tokyo in the next few years because I enjoy large cities so much.

We have a really nice park, a great diner, a great dog grooming shop, and a kickass ice cream place. It’s also close to everything I need but also rural.

I like the wildlife. Kangaroos, possums, birds. Heaps of birds. When I check my security cameras at work, all I hear are the birds chirping.

I live in Flensburg, Germany at the border to denmark. Everything here has a scandinavian flair. Nice, old buildings. Beautiful little streets. Beaches. People are really nice…

Yeah. I like living here.

Some Pictures I took in recent Years

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• My grandma lives here
• Mountains and forest to one side, flat to the other - gives you both
• Good size of having everything more than enough but everything being reachable by bicycle at the same time (although I mainly walk)

That I don’t live there any more … It’s not my town anymore because all my friends are gone, all the relatives and characters I grew up with are almost all gone and it’s filled with a new generation of people I don’t know and don’t know me.

It’s a place I remember but it’s no longer a place that remembers me.

We’ve been USA Today’s best “small beer town” for years and can walk to 6 different breweries in <30min. Plus we’re walkable to a train station which gets us to the events in the city proper in 20 minutes.