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November 12, 2018
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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 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 !

    36 replies

    kojack
    Honored Contributor
    November 13, 2018
    My avatar is a hint.



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    Inspiring
    November 13, 2018
    I live in Copenhagen Denmark. Lovely place to be when not in VR.
    Be good, die great !
    November 13, 2018
    Denmark is awesome, great bacon!!!
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    November 13, 2018

    snowdog said:

    Denmark is awesome, great bacon!!!



    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    November 13, 2018
    Tuborg lager is also awesome!  :D
    RuneSR2
    Honored Contributor
    November 13, 2018

    snowdog said:

    Tuborg lager is also awesome!  :D



    Thanks, I live close to Copenhagen too, thus bacon is important nutrition over here, while Tuborg keeps up the birth rate  ;)

    https://youtu.be/CoJ0iBjYkmg

    Actually I'm not that fond of Danish beer, I prefer British beer and ale.
    Oculus Rift CV1, Valve Index & PSVR2, Asus Strix OC RTX™ 3090, i9-10900K (5.3Ghz), 32GB 3200MHz, 16TB SSD "Ask not what VR can do for you, but what you can do for VR"
    Honored Contributor
    November 13, 2018
    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.
    “Dreams feel real while we are in them, it's only when we wake up that we realize something was strange.” - Dom Cobb " Be careful, if you are killed in real life you die in VR too. " - TD_4242 I7 10700K,  RTX 4070 TI Super, 64GB DDR4 3200Mhz, Oculus Rift CV1 and Quest 3
    November 14, 2018
    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.
    November 14, 2018
    When I win the Euromillions and buy myself a big posh house there's NO FUCKING WAY I'm buying a place in the countryside. I've been watching Midsomer Murders and there's at least one murder, sometimes three or four, every fucking week.

    Fuck that, I'm staying in London cos it's going to be A LOT safer. B)
    Inspiring
    November 14, 2018
    Midsomer is well known for being the murder capital if Britain. ...even higher than the knife crime rates in London