I LOVE the city!

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I don't know if I would want to live in a major metropolitan area, but they are sure fun to visit. I am staying in Washington DC this week for my job, and I'm enjoying my after hours time. There's just so much to observe and watch! From all the bright lights and beautiful architecture, to the many different clothing and style people have. There's cars, taxis, busses, trucks and all sorts of stuff moving around on the streets. Sounds are many and fascinating too, from the varities of sounds vehicles make ( I love picking out the make/model of a car just by the sound of it's engine) to music, and just all sorts of stuff going around. It's great just to walk around the city, watching and listening to all that's going on around. Of course, getting around the city means taking the metro-rail! Riding the metro-rail is totally fun, from viewing the interesting architecture of the stations to watching the trains zoom into the stations and listening to their PWM controllers as they slow to a stop. There's just as much going on in the subway stations as on street level!

New York city is a fascinating place too. Times Square being my favorite with all the fascinating signs all around, and the thousands of people crowding the streets. There's A wide variety of smells coming out of the many diners and cafes. New York's subway system is even more fascinating than DC's with every station having unique tilework, and the system having quite a fascinating history. When I was visiting NYC last year, I just leaned against a railing near the sidewalk and observed all that was going on for about 2 hours or so. I loved it, there was so many interesting things going on!

Any of you all like to just sit back and observe all the business and activity going on in a city?

i don't like big citys at all. small towns only please, in the mountains even surrounded by forests.

I have lived in Gothenburg - about ½ million people - and in Hamburg - about 2½ million people - but I couldn't have lived there for a longer while. It's interesting for a short period of time, but then I get exhausted. I grew up in the Swedish countryside, outside a small town, even with Swedish measures. I love the emptiness and quitness in the forests and by the sea.

I love going to Vancouver and I love to go to Victoria, even more.

Nope cannot tolerate it - makes me get sensory overload & irritable fairly quickly. I am a homebird & the less of people I see the better (apart from immediate family & something enjoyable or relevant to myself). The mass crowds, noisy restaurants etc make me cringe. There's nothing better than walking into a restaurant & you're the only ones there. If people sit nxt to me in cinemas restaurants it will ruin my whole time there. Just cannot relax this way.

I live in, well, it seems it's technically a viallage but I've always swayed toward calling it a hamlet. It's about 2 or 3 miles from anywhere, but does have the motorway quite close by, which is a nice comforting sound. If I go to university I'm not sure how I'll cope, because I'm used to night times being dark, and quiet, and I'm used to never seeing anyone other than my family, when I'm at home. (I.e., even when in the garden I hardly ever see anyone else, except possibly our neighbour now and again.) I hate small towns, let alone cities.