Hello!I want to ask, where do you live in your country? In a big city or small? Maybe capital?For example, I live in Lithuania in second biggest city in my country, Kaunas. Wondering what is the different between living in the capital and not? In my country renting a flat in capital is very expensive, but also salaries are higher. And another pluses like night life and so on.. Any opinions to share? :)Thanks !

Where do I live? Somewhere on the map of Google Earth!If I were to be more specific... I've been moving out several times in the last two years. I lived in:- London (UK),- Laval (France), it's a small town but quite high-end: it has the Laval Virtual, a yearly VR showcase (a heaven for VR users!),- Paris (France),- and now I'm somewhere in the French countryside: very poor network, peasants and cows everywhere, a heaven for some, an absolute hell for me :( .At this point I'm pretty much a nomad, lol.- Capitals are obviously more expensive, although I was surprised by the price of food in UK. I could eat twice more for as much as what I would pay in France. On the other hand, the price of the appartment was... atrocious. In Laval I had 30m2 for myself at 300€, whereas in London, I had a 10 m2 room with shared kitchen that cost me 700€.A third of the size, with less privacy, cost me literally more than twice the price...- That said, I loved the capitals for the public transit. The cities are huge but transport is easy, cheap and practical. In Paris you can get a yearly subscription (you pay a fixed price and you get access to every transport in the capital for the whole year: trains, bus, subways, ...), so the more you use public transit, the more profitable it gets. And there is so much to discover there! I'd lived there for a year, and I spent absolutely every week-end going here and there.In London, it wasn't a subscription so I had to pay for every transit, but the Oyster Card makes it so much more practical: you just charge it with money, and you can use it to pay for every transport (instead of buying a ticket every f*cking time).In countryside... public transit is rare and unpractical, so living there requires a car. The towns are rare as well and they often are small and empty.Basically, big cities are more expensive but much more practical, whereas countryside is cheap and quiet but really not practical... and empty.The absolute best is living in the city outskirts: they're not as noisy and expensive as the city, but they're much more practical and vivid than countryside.

I live in a small town just outside of Cambridge UK. Cambridge is caught in a scenario where cost of living prices are up there with London....... but wages do not reflect this (in London their is a London weighting allowance).Where I live is the cheapest housing within 30 miles, but it is still stupidly expensive now. Luckily i bought in Sept 2000 before the end of the property boom but i real feel for people looking to get on the ladder now!.Cant comment on nightlife. i hated night clubs even as a teenager living in Manchester so as a 42 year old married with a child i cant think of anything worse. Give me a nice local pub, with a good selection of ales and an open log fire every day of the week!!!.

Denmark is awesome, great bacon!!!

Vinaros, small town in Spain, east coast. I used to live in my native country France until last year and decided to bring the whole family here to have a better living. After a year I'm starting to speak Spanish pretty well, but my 2 children's, 8yo and 13yo beat me.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Housing prices are out of control. Recently, a condemned house sold for over a million dollars. Unbelievable. http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-million-dollar-condemned-house-20180418-story.html

Where do you live? | Meta Community Forums

36 Replies

Anonymous
8 years ago
Welcome to the forums! :D

I'm living in Tottenham in London, UK. EVERYTHING is expensive here! :open_mouth:
Napagady
Protege
8 years ago
BREXIT is coming. Maybe somebody will change in UK?
JohnnyDioxin
Expert Trustee
8 years ago
There are a huge amount of Lithuanians here where I live. Almost as many as Poles.
bigmike20vt
Visionary
8 years ago
I live in a small town just outside of Cambridge UK. Cambridge is caught in a scenario where cost of living prices are up there with London....... but wages do not reflect this (in London their is a London weighting allowance).
Where I live is the cheapest housing within 30 miles, but it is still stupidly expensive now. Luckily i bought in Sept 2000 before the end of the property boom but i real feel for people looking to get on the ladder now!.
Cant comment on nightlife. i hated night clubs even as a teenager living in Manchester so as a 42 year old married with a child i cant think of anything worse. Give me a nice local pub, with a good selection of ales and an open log fire every day of the week!!!.
Digikid1
Consultant
8 years ago
Uranus.
Fazz
Honored Visionary
8 years ago

Digikid1 said:

Uranus.

I've heard there's a bad atmosphere there, so I bet the night life's really bad..
Digikid1
Consultant
8 years ago
It stinks v :D
cybereality
Grand Champion
8 years ago
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. Housing prices are out of control. Recently, a condemned house sold for over a million dollars. Unbelievable.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-million-dollar-condemned-house-20180418-story.html
Morgrum
Expert Trustee
8 years ago
New Orleans.
Housing prices arent as bad as San Fran but they are rising steady.
Rob_In_Phoenix
Rising Star
8 years ago
Given my screen name, I'll give you a single guess as to where I live.