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MisterE

Social climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 11, 2013 - 10:56pm PT
Townie stuck in the city.

People are too busy here - and I miss seeing familiar faces accidentally.

I saw MisterX today (his real name) one of the 250+ residents in the apartment complex I work in, as I rolled by him on Topanga Avenue - far from the usual environment and thought: I know that guy!

The rarity of that pulled on a yearning.

I prefer 30K or so as a comfort zone, but certainly more than 15K - it gets weird if it is too small of a community.

What do you say?
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:01pm PT
I'm liking living in a town of <5k!
Ghost

climber
A long way from where I started
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:01pm PT
Both.

But since one can't actually have both, my choice is to live in a biggish city with fast access to the wilderness.
Crackslayer

Trad climber
Eldo
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:04pm PT
Obviously a town person. I like some peace and quiet for sure. Eldo supposedly has 500 but I would say that it is less. Maybe 200-300.
limpingcrab

Trad climber
the middle of CA
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:05pm PT
Town!

Proximity to empty areas is the big one though.
Lynne Leichtfuss

Sport climber
moving thru
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:09pm PT
I guess we are @ a whopping 10,000 now. Moved here 30 years ago so we've grown abit. When I get home each autumn from Tioga Pass I feel like Valley Center is a Los Angeles.

I guess I'm liking living in the forest and when I need what ever the city has to offer.....just what is that?....I can split to the land of cursing, honking and lights. hehehe lynnie
bvb

Social climber
flagstaff arizona
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:10pm PT
Flagstaff is about as big a hamlet as I can manage these days. I'm casually looking for a place in Torrey, Utah. Anyone care to organize a mass migration?
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:18pm PT
830 here in Ouray, feels kind of crowded but at least i'm really close to several wilderness areas.

Twelve years ago they put in the first, and only, traffic light in Ouray County. I'ts 9 miles away in Ridgway but i swear when conditions are right i can see it change from green to red.

It will be a cold day in hell before residents let another light get put in. Hell, they still haven't, thankfully, paved all of the streets.
Fletcher

Trad climber
The great state of advaita
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:22pm PT
I'm with Ghost. I like both but prefer the variety and diversity of urban with good access to solitude. I've been pretty successful at doing that in most places I've lived (New England, Chicago, SF Bay Area, Hong Kong, LA Area).

I found many, many familiar "around town" faces when I live in the mega-hive that is Hong Kong. I guess it helps to have a regular routine. Then you start running into the same people wherever you go.

Eric
this just in

climber
north fork
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:22pm PT
No traffic lights here and I'm never leaving. Hopefully....
The Call Of K2 Lou

climber
Squamish
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:27pm PT
I'm a rover, wanderer, nomad, vagabond; call me what you will.
Chinchen

climber
Way out there....
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:42pm PT
I sure dig the small town life. Except for the lack of a music scene and the availability of asian transvestite hookers.
john hansen

climber
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:45pm PT
Some times when I am traveling, I will see a particular type of truck or a car and think,
"oh there is ,,," Small town.
Fritz

Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:57pm PT
Small, very small towns in the rural west.

Choss Creek is about right.

mike m

Trad climber
black hills
Feb 11, 2013 - 11:59pm PT
I can't even drive to a city in 5 hours. Really thought I wanted to live in a city when I was young, but I love the rural setting now.
Wayno

Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
Feb 12, 2013 - 12:29am PT
I'll take whatever I can get.
Todd Gordon

Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
Feb 12, 2013 - 12:33am PT
What so you think....city boy or desert hillbilly....




Lynne Leichtfuss

Sport climber
moving thru
Feb 12, 2013 - 12:36am PT
I'd also go for a small island in the warm latitudes......Love Mexico but now they be tellin' me not to go there. This world is a great place. People please don't muck it up. Thanks ll ll lynne
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
the crowd MUST BE MOCKED...Mocked I tell you.
Feb 12, 2013 - 12:40am PT
Fart in that cooler and you got a jacuzzi!






To the OP... neither. burbia or mtns or maybe desert. Cities of 800k + just don't seem to add much value (other than a job) to other cities. So city for city sake doesn't seem to cut it. Towns, i think of a place like Lone Pine (might bit too small for me until I retire).

But a mtn town, different gig as long as I like my neighbors.
Not sure why.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Feb 12, 2013 - 12:41am PT
I've lived in 'towns' of less than 300 and liked it muchly. But it's hard to entice Vladimir Ashkenazy and his ilk to places like that.



But I could definitely live here...
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