Advantages of living in a city.
Lots of shops and businesses to use when required. Most homes are within 5km of shopping centres, supermarkets, medical care, mechanics, etc. Better TV reception and internet services.
Disadvantages of living in a city.
Lots of people and polluted air due to the cars every lazy azz uses. There is crime and it's either home burglaries during the day or teenagers wandering the streets at night looking for something to do. Lots of noise from people being noisy people.
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Living in a rural/ remote area.
Generally the air is cleaner and there are more animals, birds, plants and other natural things to look at. However, air quality can be compromised by scumbags driving diesel 4wds or riding unlicensed motorbikes all over the place. Air quality is also made worse by every halfwit using wood fires.
Morons burn the bush all the time and the air is full of smoke.
Idiots cut down trees and clear bushland all the time. They also spray huge amounts of herbicide everywhere and what they don't use, they dump in rivers and kill everything in it.
You don't get good television reception, mobile phone signal or internet.
You are miles from the nearest shopping centre or medical facility and if you have an accident, you are more likely to die in the country than in the city, purely due to lack of medical resources.
If you need a mechanic to fix your car, it's a mobile mechanic or do it yourself.
There are lots of animals that make noises during the day and night and it's harder to get that resolved in the country.
eg: I have spent the last 3 years trying to get the council to do something about the neighbours dog, which barks all day. They have only just (in the last week) managed to confirm the dog does bark whenever the owners are out, and are now implementing a strategy to deal with the problem.
Same council refuses to enforce a cat curfew so every night I put up with dozens of neighbours cats and feral cats have pissy hissy fights in my backyard, and spraying urine all over the place.
Same stupid council keeps burning the bush and spraying carcinogenic herbicide all over the footpaths and native plants in the area. The morons sprayed several hundred native orchids 2 weeks ago, they claimed it was grass. Like grass has hot pink flowers and a single furry leaf. A few months before that they sprayed a few hundred native plants. Last year they sprayed several thousand native plants and burnt 500+ native orchids. The year before that they wiped out 2 entire colonies of native orchids along with cutting down hundreds of mature trees and that caused the red tail black cockatoos to leave the area. The black cockatoos are endangered and rely on the mature trees for food and breeding sites.
The doctors around here are incompetent halfwits who can't get a job in the city. The nearest hospital is a 30 minute drive away.
I didn't have the internet for the first 6 months I lived here. I have no mobile phone signal. My TV signal is crap and I can watch TV sometimes but most of the time it's turned off because I don't have a signal.
There is so much dust blowing around here I have to wipe it off my car (around the doors) whenever I want to use it. I then get in the car and park it on the lawn and hose it off just so I can see out the windows. Then I can drive into town which is 30 minutes away. The dust covers the car in a week. You lot deal with snow, I deal with dust.
I figured living near the beach would give me a chance to go collecting and set up a marine tank. No chance. The locals take bucket loads of undersized fish and crabs and pump huge amounts of crap into the water. There is nothing here because it's all dead or been eaten.
It's too dangerous to walk along the beaches because of idiot 4wd owners that think the beach is their exclusive playground and they aim their vehicles at people walking along the beach and drive towards you. The council refuses to do anything about that.
Quite frankly, I am thinking about moving back to the city because it has a lot more pluses than this crappy country town I am currently in.