Who lives in a big city?

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I live in Portland, OR. We have buses and trains. We have over 2 million people in the area but for some reason, we don't count all the towns into our metro population.

I'm in Seattle. It's fairly tame as far as big cities go but I still get annoyed by all the people. Too many loud cars, trucks and busses driving by all the time.

I like having the Cascades right in my "backyard" though (actually about a 45 minute drive away). The mountains are really amazing when they aren't fogged in.

Seattle is my dream city!

Don't forget the overhead Tram, the streetcar, and MAX light rail.

Portland has about 650,000 people alone,
the majority being yuppies or hipsters.

I thought those are all trains except they are different kinds. And the Aerial Tram, I don't see that as public transportation due to going only up and down to the OSHU. It's for OHSU employees to ride up to their work and it's also an attraction for everyone to ride. It doesn't really get you anywhere except it gives you the whole view of the city facing east.

Edinburgh - a big city, though not on the scale of the big American cities you mention.

It probably couldn't be more different to North Carolina. A more 'people sized' city and a lot of history everywhere you look in the city centre. A comprehensive bus network, in a way that American cities don't have. In this respect I would say Edinburgh, in particular, is a metrophile's paradise.

I live in a suburb of the city. Even a suburb here would be more densely populated than the centre of an American city, especially in a southern state like North Carolina.

In the city centre, Edinburgh is so busy as to be a nightmare for someone like me being dyspraxic, which doesn't help when walking in such busy streets and it is difficult for me. I am in the city centre every day.

You'd have much less personal space than in North Carolina. It's a busy city, you are more likely to live in apartments therefore possibly less space/privacy around where you live, and you certainly bump into a lot of people you know when you're out and about.

But there is so much more life to the place than what I suspect there is in a southern US city, because things are more spread out, and of course history wherever you look.