are you a city aspie or a country aspie?

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I was cut out for city life. I lived in New York (loved it) and currently live near Los Angeles (love it even more). I'm just better acclimated to a faster pace.

I picked ice cream, of course.

I'm a born-and-raised New Yorker who stills resides there--so I guess I'd have to call myself an "urban" Aspie.

I live in Los Angeles and love it here.

I guess I'm in between. I've always lived in the suburbs. Being in the city or the country are places I visit outside of the suburbs. I like visiting both cities and rural areas.

I don't really know. I've lived in and around small towns pretty much all my life, and I've always wanted to live in a bigger city. I like the idea of having access to more goods and services at better prices, and having more anonymity. People talk about how impersonal cities are and how they would rather live in a small town where everybody knows everybody else, but I'm honestly not a big fan of that. I would rather just blend into the crowd, and not draw too much attention to myself.

I've also dreamt about having a secluded place out in the country, where I can just do whatever I want without people bothering me, but I think I'd be way too lazy to do well in this sort of setting.

I grew up in a small town, but hated it because everyone is all in your business. The rest of my family are loud, extraverted people (who I love, but they drive me nuts) and their friends and people in town expect me to be like them. I'm not. I really don't want to be pestered when I'm trying to get what I need and get out of a store to hold random conversations with people my parents socialize with, but who I don't know from Adam's housecat. They know half of the county where they live, and if their friends spot me anywhere it's a game of 20 questions about my relatives and people I went to school with and that is positively draining. Especially when I don't have the intel they want anyway.

I live in a large suburb and work in a large city which I like better than a small town if only for the anonymity, but I detest the traffic and the crowds. I try to shop at off hours to avoid the crowds as best I can, and I go to swim at the Y when they open in the morning so a.) I get my workout before work, and b.) avoid the screaming kids and noise in the pool when kids are there after work.

Someday I would like to move somewhere very rural so I can have the luxury of selectively interacting with people, but that would require that I find employment that allows me to work from a remote location. So for now, I am pretty much suburban/urban, but that's more out of necessity than anything.

I used to live in cities, love the anonimity it provides but it got too noisy and smelly.
Went to live in a seaside town which solved the smell problem but the noise never went away.
I live rural now with no background traffic noises beyond passing traffic but I do get smell when the farmers spread manure on their land.
2 or 3 times a year I'll daytrip to somewhere where I can disappear into the crowd for the day. Amsterdam and Antwerp are my favourites for practical reasons. Paris would be nice but it's just that little bit too far for a comfortable day trip.
And holidays we go to big cities too. After waking up to the sound of birds all year round I want to hear noise when waking up when I'm on holiday

Do I get me ice-cream now?

I'm from mars or venus or pluto

^ I choose that to be silly. XD

Anyway, I don't have AS, but I can say that I am a country autistic. I grew up away from the city, which makes it a lot easier for me to function. Right now, I do live in... well, it's not really suburban area though. It's a housing complex in Arizona, but it's out in the country, and you don't hear a lot of the traffic at all.

I've lived the big city and the middle of nowhere and everywhere in between, right now in my life I appreciate the convenience of the city and having entertainment, stores, services, doctors, etc all within almost walking distance. There are a lot of good things about living out in the country but there are downsides as well, opportunity is few and far between most rural places it seems. The city certainly has its drawbacks and at one time that's all I could see but having moved out of the city for a few years I was able to know what I would be missing. I'm not sure there is anywhere on this planet that I'd feel completely comfortable and at home. Suburbs really suck tho, I can see the attraction if you have kids but as struggling young adult it doesn't get much worse.

[b]Hard to say as, I've lived in both types of settings so, I'm neutral..[/b]

Right now, I'm an exurban Aspie.

Because I'm an Aspie. And I live in the exurbs.

I can't handle being a city Aspie. I like all the culture and stuff, but not all the people. I can read culture, and watch culture, and have culture beamed in, without having to live in the city.

I don't like being an exurban Aspie either. Yuck. Still too many people. Too many stupid rules. Instead of living in a fishbowl, I'm living in a 100-gallon aquarium-- more room, but still people watching me everywhere if I come out of my hole.

I was meant to be a country Aspie. A REMOTE country Aspie. Like, my hometown of BFE, West Virginia (which was really a mailing address, since we actually lived up a holler five miles out of the two-stop-sign town) was ALMOST COUNTRY ENOUGH. I was meant to be a mile-and-a-half-from-my-next-neighbor Aspie.

Like, Ted Kaczynski, but with more chickens and less bombs.

I am country, but I would have voted country/space-alien if that were an option.
I think aliens would be a blast to hang out with, no matter what they looked like.

City, though I am fortunate to have a hideaway from the hustle and bustle not far from the centre of the city. These are few and far between, though they do exist, so I have a lot of country benefits - peace and quiet most of the time, fabulous native trees and birds in a small forest, a private beach. It took me over 60 years to find this and I am only leaving when cart me out after I breathe my last!

I live in a big town, kind of like it. But I like the country also.

City and country both have its weaknesses and strenghts.

Green Acres is the place to be.