In my experience, the bigger the city the harder it is to create meaningful connections. Also: air pollution kills 7 million people a year (according to the World Health Organisation) so it is a big deal! Very interesting video, I myself live in a big city (Paris, France) and I find it quite draining. In the future I would love to travel a lot but to have a house somewhere close to nature, in quiet city or town. I have been following you for so many years and your evolution on TH-cam is amazing! Love your new channel and content
Being born and raised in NYC it only is a big city if you come from a small place.. what I mean is that most of my family and friends here live in very specific places..I grew up in a specific borough and neighborhood..for me NYC..is not a big city it is home…not a place I am trying to fit in…I’ve also lived in small towns and suburbs and found them both to be ok ..but car dependent and very boring at times…obviously people who were from those places had a different opinion…I know people who have left NYC and are they so much happier? They have found that the old saying is true..”wherever you go..there you are” I now live in Manhattan and never plan on living anywhere else after a lot of travel..I’m home I’m happy..hope you are to.
I live and have lived for years in a town of maybe 3,000 people that's so rural and neglected that I have to travel 2 to 5 hours through dense forest with no streetlights, pothole and crack filled streets, and hardly any signs to get anywhere with real events and shopping. 50% of the inhabitants of this town are either alcoholics or drug addicts who live in run-down 200 year old houses and can't leave. At least a quarter of the people I knew in high school a little over a decade ago are dead or missing. We're so rural that when we go to cities, it's like we're the black-clad Khmer Rouge entering Phnom Penh for the first time in 1975- so lost in an alien world that it's like we're cold, disheveled, steely eyed roughnecks drinking out of toilets bowls, eating toothpaste, gulping down motor oil and completely astounded by everything around us. I find small towns to be soul draining. I can't make friends, I spend most of my time working, drinking, and alone. I can't find love. I can't do anything other than make my own entertainment in the wilderness, fish, hunt, work, or drink. It's miserable, and any time I've tried to move to bigger cities, I can't make it stick because of how expensive things are, the difficulty in getting work, and the difficulty of getting around. It gets to your head eventually because you start to think that because you live such a hard life that you're better than city folk, that they wouldn't last a day in your shoes. It may be true, but I'd rather be able to have the option of having friends and a life. It sucks.
In my experience, the bigger the city the harder it is to create meaningful connections.
Also: air pollution kills 7 million people a year (according to the World Health Organisation) so it is a big deal!
Very interesting video, I myself live in a big city (Paris, France) and I find it quite draining. In the future I would love to travel a lot but to have a house somewhere close to nature, in quiet city or town.
I have been following you for so many years and your evolution on TH-cam is amazing! Love your new channel and content
Being born and raised in NYC it only is a big city if you come from a small place.. what I mean is that most of my family and friends here live in very specific places..I grew up in a specific borough and neighborhood..for me NYC..is not a big city it is home…not a place I am trying to fit in…I’ve also lived in small towns and suburbs and found them both to be ok ..but car dependent and very boring at times…obviously people who were from those places had a different opinion…I know people who have left NYC and are they so much happier? They have found that the old saying is true..”wherever you go..there you are” I now live in Manhattan and never plan on living anywhere else after a lot of travel..I’m home I’m happy..hope you are to.
I live and have lived for years in a town of maybe 3,000 people that's so rural and neglected that I have to travel 2 to 5 hours through dense forest with no streetlights, pothole and crack filled streets, and hardly any signs to get anywhere with real events and shopping. 50% of the inhabitants of this town are either alcoholics or drug addicts who live in run-down 200 year old houses and can't leave. At least a quarter of the people I knew in high school a little over a decade ago are dead or missing. We're so rural that when we go to cities, it's like we're the black-clad Khmer Rouge entering Phnom Penh for the first time in 1975- so lost in an alien world that it's like we're cold, disheveled, steely eyed roughnecks drinking out of toilets bowls, eating toothpaste, gulping down motor oil and completely astounded by everything around us. I find small towns to be soul draining. I can't make friends, I spend most of my time working, drinking, and alone. I can't find love. I can't do anything other than make my own entertainment in the wilderness, fish, hunt, work, or drink. It's miserable, and any time I've tried to move to bigger cities, I can't make it stick because of how expensive things are, the difficulty in getting work, and the difficulty of getting around. It gets to your head eventually because you start to think that because you live such a hard life that you're better than city folk, that they wouldn't last a day in your shoes. It may be true, but I'd rather be able to have the option of having friends and a life. It sucks.