How do you feel about the city or town you live in?

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I feel the medium sized town I live in is mediocre and full of miserable, unambitious people. I wish there was a university here and a little more nature. They chopped down too many trees during development.

I like it a lot. Quaint and quirky. Old buildings and houses. Lots of woods. Bordered by the sea and a wide river.

I have precious little love for my town, and a whole lot of contempt! The council is constantly pouring money into badly planned, cumbersome and ugly new projects that destroy what green spaces we have left - and then don't work - get run down and diminish the locale further. Apart from that - I do like the fact I live near the sea.

The town I live in has lots of good shops and lovely tourist attractions, and beautiful scenary too. But my God, is it busy. Constant traffic queues, thousands of people, crowds, drugs, murders, weirdos...
No, I don't live in London. I live in a large town in Essex.

I love it. It's the perfect place for me-not too big or too small.

I live in the "outer" part of New York City. In the Borough of Queens near the Nassau County line. I like my area. It's quiet. Lots of trees. Too many birds who make messes, though LOL. I wish there were more decent diners, though; I have to drive a couple of miles in order to get a decent breakfast out.

It's a well-planned area where I live---though the area gets somewhat dicey once you go a bit south. The further south you go, the less street planning there is, and the less maintenance is done on these streets.

I'm glad I don't have parking problems, like I would had I lived closer to Manhattan.

I'm glad I don't live in the "inner city," which is Manhattan and parts of the other Boroughs.

I hate it.
I washed up here ... must be two years ago now. It was meant to be temporary. And now it's been two bloody years.
I am working my hardest to get the hell out of this place.
This is an inbred hick town - if you walk out the door people stare at you because the last ten generations of your relations weren't born here, they haven't known you since you were born, you don't play on the town sports teams and no one knows all your business. It's VERY insular. It's also been half-dead for decades, since the industrial sites and the mines collapsed.
Plus the long highways through nothingness that are the only ways out of here are lined with roadkill in varying states of decay that no one ever collects. The bodies just line the roads and rot.

I'm in my room most of the time so it isn't really that important, I don't have much reason to go out. Not that there's much to do around here anyway.

- far too many people, over 1 million
- far too many cars many of them trucks with over entitled drivers
- too noisy not enough peace and quiet
- inconsideration galore
- far too much trailer trash
- far too many foreigners
- city lights are too bright
- drivers headlights always blast in my rearview mirror
- far too much sun not enough rainy days and gloomy skies
- not enough mountains rivers or lakes
- no small town and neighbourly attitude with its people
- claustrophobic
- too many NTs
- too many places that remind me of traumatic events and people
- too many triggers that cause meltdowns
- in short it's overstimulation hell

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I am from a medium-sized city in England. Well, they call it a city but it's more like a bunch of towns lumped together. It's definitely not a place I recommend to tourists!! The urban parts are very dirty and ugly (even the city centre is an eye-sore - not even in a 'modern, blocky' way, but all grotty), and like every urban area in the country, there's a lot of crime and scummy people. There are queues everywhere, housing is dirt cheap, doctors aren't always good, and the schools have a pretty bad reputation.

On the other hand, it does have a decent amount of shops so I never have to travel far to get anything. And there are a lot of nice, quaint areas that aren't too far away - my university isn't far from me and in a very rural area. There's a lot of access to public transport which is also a bonus (though it can be unreliable!)
And though it is sometimes scary, it's not quite as daunting as I can imagine some of the big cities being (e.g. London, Manchester, Birmingham).

On the whole, I can safely say my hometown is a dump...but since I was born and raised in this area, it's a somewhat homely dump. It's probably not the worst part of Britain, but I'd rather live somewhere else.

I hate my city. Everything about it is actually like a tailor-made "autist's nightmare."

The population is 10 million -- need I say more? Lol.

I live in Chicago, so where to start?

Autumn is wonderful weather wise IMO. The other three seasons STINK. The winters are BRUTAL and the -35 windchill is an atrocity. Summer doesn't last to long but is to hot for me. Spring is an unpredictable rainy mess where you can have all 4 seasons in one day.

The streets are horrible--to narrow for their traffic load, always to slow, always to congested. It can take 2 light cycles to get through an intersection because of busses, taxis, and bicycle messengers.

The cost of living is much to high but that's par for the course for a major US city ruled by Socialism.

The culture, art, etc is wonderful. I love the museums, cultural activities, diversity (no racial group has a majority, neighborhoods like Boystown exist, as well as plenty of people who believe in religions other than Christianity, etc).

The good parts of the city are wonderful and the bad parts need to be nuked. The contrast is shocking, and there are some neighborhoods you certainly shouldn't go to unless you fancy being shot or stabbed.