Where do you live?
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 d...
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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.
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.