...Small Town or Big City I was born and raised in a small country town, where there were more corn fields than businesses. Everybody knew each other and what everyone did; needless to say; when you are young you could not do anything wrong without your family finding out. Living in a small town like this had its ups and downs, but mainly it was a great way to live. You never had to lock your doors at night, because you always felt safe. The only crime you saw was on TV and you could honestly say, that don’t happen here. It made you become close with your family, because they are all you had. The only downside for me was the lack of job opportunities, ones that actually paid you enough to live off of. I moved out of my parents house at the age of 17, when I graduated high school. I had always had a job or two so I could take care of myself and not rely on any help from my parents. By the age of 24, I realized this was not the way I wanted my life to be. My best friend and I decided we would look for work in the city and see if we could find anything. It did not take long for us to find a job that paid more and gave us benefits. The next step for us was to find a place to live and move to the big city. The hardest part for me, was having to say goodbye to my family. Knowing I was making a great decision to better my life, did not matter so much at that point. I felt like I was saying goodbye, forever. Big city here I come! The excitement of something new was so exhilarating...
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...of other people. Our destination is always a big city, like Boston or New York or Washington. I spent my first 29 years living in Boston, so I enjoy visiting my old South Boston neighborhood, riding the subway system I dreaded as a schoolkid, and taking in the museums and historical sites and entertainment I enjoyed so much when I lived there. We stop in lots of small towns on the way to and from the city. Many are similar to our own Gold Beach, Oregon, a quiet, friendly town of 1,500 nestled in a fairly large expanse of open space, in our case the ocean and mountains of the Northwest. I always gain insight into myself and my situation in life when I travel. Typically I feel fortunate to have made the transition from city to country life long ago because I feel at home and comfortable in the country. But the city is still exciting and impressive. Here are what I see as the major benefits and drawbacks between city and small town life: Population density: Even as you approach the city on its main freeway or expressway, cars begin crowding closer together and dart in and out of lanes in an effort to get one or two car lengths ahead of a competitor. In the country there is no such competition. Once on foot, the population of the city seems staggering to a small town person. It reminds you of an ant colony, or a cage with too many rats. Money: Most city dwellers would scoff at the $10 jobs that are coveted in the small town, and they would decline to drive the beat up...
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...September 2011 Big and Small City Living Have you ever wondered if you’re missing out on the big city living or the small town closeness? Cities and towns are basically the same, but most cities have more to offer. I have lived in a couple of large cities such as Oklahoma City and Tulsa, but I have also lived in several small towns around Oklahoma. Before you decide where you want to live, you might want to look at some of the similarities and differences of Big City living and Small Town living. When you are in a large city and you want to grab something to eat, the decision can be hard because there are so many different places to eat. Big cities have every type of fast food you can imagine such as Chinese, Asian, American, Mexican, Greek, and many more. They also have a huge selection of chain restaurants. One type of restaurant that that you won’t find as often is the Mom and Pop restaurants. These aren’t as successful as they are in smaller cities and towns. Small town cuisine is very limited compared to city food. Most of the restaurants there are family restaurants that have been passed from generation to generation. The fast food selection in small towns is also very limited. Some small towns do not even have a single fast food eatery. In America most of our goods are purchased in stores. In large cities, there is an abundance of stores, everything from a specialty health food store to a party supply store, or even a name brand clothing store. Cities usually have several...
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...Big City or Samall Town Some people prefer to live in a small town like Chesapeake while others prefer to live in a big city like New York. Both have there own a dvantages and disadvantages. And which place would you like to live? It depends on personal opinion. However, for me I prefer living in a big city because it has many benefits than small town . Lifestyle and transportion are two main reasons why Ilike to live in a big city. First, Big city like New York it have special lifestyle. If you try to find nice apartment it will be expensive. As you know New York city it is full of life.When you live in a big city you could meet people from many parts of the word and can enrich your culturally.And in a big city you could visit different touristic places.and there are many kind of roustrint.And about the transportation it have many kind of transportation like bus, metro and taxe. second,small town like chesapeake.If you choose live in small town.The cost for the rent cheap and more think cheaper than big city.And it is quiet more than big city .and about the restaurants there are some local restaurants. And about the transportation there is no more transportation except us own car. conclusion, the big city there are more think you can to do in weekend or any holiday more than small town. And the big city it is expensive more the small city.So in my opinion dependent about the parson like the many he has,education ,and the...
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...Compare and Contrast There are people who live in the big city and those who live in a small town. In the long run, it seems as if some people who live in a big city end up in a small town, and vice versa. Many people thrive in a big city while others live comfortably in a small town. There are differences between a small town and a big city in the attractions, traffic, and commute that make them both attractive. Jorge Garcia is a 20 year-old man who is from Longview, Texas. This small town is located in East Texas and is a very friendly place. The town has a decent selection of attractions even though it is small. Longview counts one principle shopping mall, several major shopping centers, and several small retailers. Longview also boasts two movie theaters. In the time Jorge has lived in Longview, he has also counted over fifty restaurants and about five different nightclubs. One of the benefits Jorge loves about living in a small city is the commute. Although Longview has expanded over the years, the traffic is still manageable. Even if...
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...A taste of the big city life An article about advantages and disadvantages in the big city. Development and speed. These are the two words that best describes the big city life for me. Development, because you are in a constant move in your life in every second. You meet new people every day. You learn and you fail. The pressure, can you handle it? It is all about pressure and the speed, the last word, speed. I could say it over and over again. I love it. I love the speed in the daily life, and how quick it all goes. Cars are everywhere. Big, small, blue, green, red, brown, yellow, and you name it. And not to mention the people. There are people all over the place, in every direction and in every corner. There are all kinds of people, and none of them look the same. Different styles and different ways to life their life’s. Of course if you take a look at the Wall Street, the only think you will see is black-suited men with no other interests than their money and how to can be more successful. You have probably already guessed that the article is about “The Big Apple”, which also is known as New York City. Living in New York City has all the stuff dreams are made of, millions of residents and tourist, an extensive public transportation system and all kinds of diverse culture in a tight area. Once I missed my train at the metro. I thought that I would have to wait for a new train for approximately 20-30 minutes, but within a blink of an eye a new one were already there...
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...The majority of the population prefers living in a big city because of the great advantages that it provides. The big cities are becoming more and more inhabited. There are several advantages and disadvantages of living in a big city. First, most people prefer living in a big city because is a place where the economy is constantly growing, and it is significantly easier to find a good job. Good companies take place in a big city, and these companies provided many jobs with good wages. For example, when my brother graduated from UF in computer science, he began working in the company "Computer Care" in Gainesville. The salary of my brother in this company was 100,000 per year. My brother bought a small house with 2 bedrooms and also a Toyota Corolla 2012. But after three years, my brother receiver a job offer from the "Google" company in New York. Currently, my brother earns 240,000 per year in the company Google in New York. As a result, my brother bought a new house with 5 bedrooms, and also a Ferrari 2015.In this big city, my brother has a better quality of life, and at the same time, he gets his dream working in one of the best IT companies in the world. Second, in a big city we can get what we cannot find in small town. In a big city there are many malls, cinemas, nightclubs, restaurants and sport stations. For example, in Gainesville there are only 20 or 30 nightclubs that close in the early hours of the night; however, in Miami there are over 100 nightclubs that they...
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...Advantages and disadvantages of city life. Life in the city is not so easy as one can imagine. However, some people say that modern cities are the best thing civilization has produced. Others claim that cities are not fit for living. There are a lot of pluses and minuses of living in a city. But what are they? Firstly, in big cities there are a lot of different entertainments such as cinemas, theaters, clubs, and exhibitions. Countrymen cannot go to the museums or theaters, because many villages are situated far from cities .A further advantage of cities is a wide variety of public transport and it is very easy to get anywhere. Practically in every city there is a metro, the fastest mean of public transport, and people do not spend a lot of their time in traffic jams. As for a village there is no public transport at all and it is very difficult to get anywhere. One more advantage of city life is modern conveniences. In modern cities people have no problems with water .But in villages people face with a problem of lack of water, they cannot use running water all day long. In big cities it is very easy to take care of health, a lot of medical centers and hospitals are situated in every city, and high-qualified specialists will help people even in the most awful situation . As a rule there are no good hospitals in villages and medical services in the countries leave much to be desired. Of course, every big city has disadvantages. For example, air pollution. Every day numerous...
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...Name ___________Morgan_____________ Date _______November 6, 2015_______________ Please copy your Unit II persuasive essay here: Open and closed. These are just metaphors for cities and small towns. With cities you are closed in and with the small towns you have open space to do whatever you want. In small towns there are many opportunities to live a wonderful and happy life. Small towns give off a homely feel to whoever comes strolling through. It doesn’t matter what you are there for you and always get something that makes you feel like you are at home with your whole family. Everyone wants to feel welcomed no one wants to feel apart from everyone else, that’s how life is in a small town no one is sectioned off to be all alone there is...
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...“Living With Strangers” Many people think that urban life in big cities means a happy life, with no worries and just pure happiness. But what is happiness? And what makes us think that urban life is pure happiness? In the essay “Living With Strangers” by Siri Hustvedt, we hear about a woman's move from the countryside of Minnesota, to the Big Apple in New York City. Her move is described with many comparisons with her previous life and experiences, and a lot of humor, which underlines her situation and her attitude to urban life. In the following essay I am going to analyze and comment on Siri Hustvedt’s essay “Living With Strangers”. Part of my essay will focus on the genre, the attitude to urban living and the contrasts between Siri’s life in Minnesota and her new life in New York City. As said, the essay is based on Siri Hustvedt’s own life and experiences. Siri Hustvedt grew up in Minnesota, where everybody knows and greets each other. Now she lives in New York City where nobody seems to care about each other, and where greeting strangers would be “impractical and unsound”. This is a big change for her, and she uses an overwhelming amount of detailed descriptions to describe her situation in the Big Apple. She uses many personal experiences and examples, which characterizes the essay genre. Furthermore, she is very reflective, descriptive, subjective and very personal in her way of writing the essay. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival...
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...Look Away When you move from a small town to the big city, you’ll have to try to fit in. It’s different living in a big city than in a small town, because there’s different “rules” you’ll have to learn and follow. “IN rural Minnesota, where I grew up, it was the custom to greet everyone you met on the road, whether you knew the person or not, with a "hi." A muttered, uninflected "hi" was entirely acceptable, but the word had to be spoken.” In the small town, Minnesota, where Siri Hustvedt grew up, it was common courtesy to say “hi” to one another even though you didn’t know the person you said “hi” to. In 1978, Siri Hustvedt moved to the city that never sleeps, New York. Here she couldn’t use her small town charm, because moving to the big city was like moving to another planet in some kind of way. “Within days, I absorbed the unwritten code of survival in this town, a convention communicated silently but forcefully. This simple law, one nearly every New Yorker subscribes to whenever possible, is: pretend it isn't happening.” Siri Hustvedt here describes that it’s survival of the fittest. You’ll have to learn to look the other way to be a true New Yorker and to survive in the big city. Minnesota works in an opposite way than New York, because you’d considered as a snob, if you don’t say “hi” in Minnesota, but in New York it’s; mind your own business, and you will survive in this town. “At 24th Street, the door opened for a woman who was wearing nothing but a flimsy bathrobe...
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...Fairhope, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia are both amazing cities in their own right. One is enormous, and the other is small. Atlanta is a financial hub that attracts people from around the world, Fairhope is a far less populated city that grows from within. Both cities have astounding beauty that share the same warm feeling that is only found in the southern region of the United States. Although they differ in many aspects, Fairhope, Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia share several similarities. The city of Fairhope lies in Baldwin County, Alabama and embodies everything that a small southern town should. Sitting on the Gulf of Mexico, across from Mobile, Fairhope radiates small town charm and southern hospitality. The buildings were made in...
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...I. Introduction Business is truly a big factor for the success of a State or city. Business helps in building a strong foundation for the triumph of a City. But how about the small industries and medium ones? They can also help in contributing to the city’s finances like the big one do’s? Or they can contribute in some minor ways? How much do they earn in everyday living and negotiating? Are there factors that affect them and their earnings? Do they have a season when their earnings increases or there are seasons when their earnings decreases? What product is their best seller that contributes in their earnings? Does their place is suitable for their business? How many small and medium businesses here in Malolos are earning much, how many are earning right and how many small business are earning low? All of these and other questions will be answer in this brief study about the small and medium industries that runs here at the vicinity of our beloved city, The home of our History, the capital of Bulacan where transformation of Industries happens. The Malolos city of the province in Bulacan. We all know that here in Malolos, many great business are visible. South supermarket, Puregold, The graceland mall, Jollibee, Mcdonalds, Chowking and many more actively contributing in Malolos City so we conduct a study that deals with the small industries that are also helping the city goal in success. Many of these industries are said to have factors with it. How they truly help in building...
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...Living with strangers The big city’s has grown bigger in the last decade as a result of the increasing urbanization of the 1800-century’s industrialization. Where the jobs were moved from the countryside to the cities. To live in these big cities with thousands or even millions of other people creates a lot of challenges and problems. Especially when you have, to find out how to relate and react to all these people that you don’t know and never will. In the essay “Living with strangers. New York 2002”, Siri Hustvedt look at these challenges and difficulties there is in the big city life. The text can more or less be divided I three parts. The first part is about Hustvedt history and personal experience. She starts by telling that she comes from a small town where everybody knows everybody and you great every single person you meet whereas in the cities she quickly learned that whit all these people with so different life’s it would be impossible to great everyone. Moreover, it didn’t take long to noughties that there is an unspoken code. “It didn’t take long for me to absorb the unwritten code of survival in this town (…): PRETEND IT ISN’T HAPPENING” She also says that even though she has physical contact with millions of people every day there is no human contact. By starting with, a personal story she quickly gets the reader’s attention and it becomes easier to relate to the text. In the second part of the text, Hustvedt tells examples of this city code “pretend it isn’t happening”...
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...Big city is where you can see many vehicles,many skyscrapers, many peple with a hurry pace of life. That place can fascinate us very much due to its light and luxury.Nowadays, more and more pople want to live there because they see many advantages. Indeed, in a big city, people can have the best chances to work as well as can enjoy the best service and entertaiment. In a big city, people can take the chaces to study and work best. There are many good University for u to choose in a big city. There you can express your ability to study what you like. Moreover, when you graduate, you also find it easier to find chances to get a good job with good salary, that is quite difficult in small cities or countrysides; because there concentrates many big companies and groups. Hence, many graduate students choose big cities to live and work. In short, it is where you can take advantages f yourself. In addition, in a big city you can enjoy the best service and entertainment. Because there are many rich people here, they can invest much money to get the best for them. Lives in a big city are quite luxurius but you don't have to be worried when you are sick or suffer a disease because there you can find good doctors for you, as long as you have muich money. What's more, in a big city you can enjoy new entertainment such as new games or luxury games. Many people can argue that living in a big city makes them tired with noise and dash. They like the slow pace of life in a countryside....
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