I've lived in the country since 1990 and love it! My current home is in a few wooded acres with a neat assortment of wild life. The nearest town, a college town of roughly 100,000, is four miles away. Shopping and dining options are decent. A large metro is less than a two hour drive, if/when we have a need.

I like living close to a Supermarket....you gotta eat.

I grew up in the burbs of our state capital, given that in the 60s that capital was really just a big country town with no buildings over 2 stories high. My annual holidays were often at my grondmothers, she had a lovely country home in the mountains, cattle, chhoks, geese ducks and such. It was cold in winter and great swimming holes in summer.
Once my kids were born I decided my kids should live that so we went bush.
I am so glad I did. They had a great childhood.

The biggest drawback for me is the lack of public transportation.
Otherwise, it's fine.

I love the country. Spent my formative years in the country and today I'm in a community of about 1200 people and work in a small town. I've also spent 20 years in the Houston, Texas area which is a much bigger town. But I could be happy in Germany, Spain, or Kenya. I would travel more but lack of money prevents it.

Yes and no. I like small towns the best. I lived out in the country with my first husband. It was 20 miles to the nearest town of any size and it was under 1000 people. The closest town of any size was 50 miles one way. Too far from town. Grocery shopping was an all day ordeal.

I am not a city person. Love animals (have a dog and cat), acre of land, lots of treesin my yard and woods in the back. Would love to have a horse again and possibly live on a ranch. I'm in between two cities now living in a suburb.

I don't think I could even live in suburbia anymore

Love it here in the country. I work in town to afford what I have, but every day I can't wait to get back home where it's just me and my dog.

Love country living. I'm close to a large city but live where I can feel close to nature and can always, always see the sky. Look up. It will recharge you everytime.

I'll spend a month there and see.

I've never lived outside a city, but this last election has made me realize how nartiw and ignorant so many are. I'd like to see if country living is for me, just not in the US.

I'll spend a month there and see.

City boy here, but I realize the perks of country living as well.

Yes and no -- it depends on ones health and ability to do the work required to keep up a "country estate" -- Not to mention the problems if one loses mobility, eyesight -- ability to drive.

Yes, I love the critters playing in the yard, the views, fresh air smells -- that I could walk around naked and no-one would know it ... I love the "need" to be frugal w/ time/materials as it's too much trouble to drive into town to get new stuff. Isolation from too many distractions is a plus as well.

No, the afore mentioned medical problems of age. You'd better be near a doc and hospital as one passes 60! -- not to mention working real carefully -- hard to drive into town w/ a broken leg.

I grew up in the city, east Dallas. Then left for UT, got a degree in education, and somehow my first job fortunately was in "nature education" which captured me for the rest of my career, and for twenty years meant I lived in rural south-east Texas on Lake Livingston. Then once my three kids left with their mom to find better schools in Austin, I ended up in suburban Dallas. I have a family farm in north-east Texas, so I do both the city and country thing and do enjoy aspects of both. At the farm the nearest restaurant is a Dairy Queen, and the nearest movie an hour away in Texarkana, but sleeping lat night and every night hearing owls and coyotes is pretty amazing. I do wish to live somewhere further from DFW, although I do love being on a Green Belt and having a dog who loves our big back yard.

I wanna do a self build in the country some day

As a teen, I hated it when we moved "to the country." We weren't really very rural, but we were just a bit too far for me to ride a bike to any of my friends houses. Actually, it wasn't so much the distance but the hills. We were at the top of a huge hill which was a bitch to get back up once you rode down. Once I was old enough to drive, it was OK.

I live in a mostly rural county, but I've always been really close to the small city that is the population center. I recently moved from a really nice spot that was just outside the city limits and felt rural, but I was still only a mile away from the gas station, grocery store, and all the shops.

Now I live in that small city and I like it. It takes 7 minutes to mow my entire yard. Because I live alone, I find comfort in the proximity of my neighbors. If I lived alone in a very rural place, I'd go quietly insane.

I am good with either. I live in a small skiing village for 3 days, but commute 2 hours where I live for 4 days in a city. They both have there advantages and disadvantage. Country is quite, better air, better view but lacks internet of any speed, shopping/entertainment and is more expensive to live.

Raised on a farm in Oregon. There are only three cities in the states I would live in willingly. Seattle. Portland. New York. Right now I live close to 6 miles from a town of some 42,000. Not quite what one could call a city, but still too much city for me.

I love the country but at my age I also want to live close to stuff -theaters, stores, hospitals, etc. I'm currently living in a Songkhla suburb,Thailand

I grew up in a remote area and although we had amenities it still took 15 to 30 minutes (depending on the weather) to get to anything even resembling a town. When it took 20 minutes for an ambulance to reach the house for what was thankfully a non-emergency, I decided I'd never live in the sticks again. Had it been an emergency I would have been dead by the time they got there. No fucking thanks.

As Smog (Bill Callahan) said - let's move to the country; just you and me:

City. I love to visit the country, but I need the life of the city.

I liked the solitude of country living, but I also like the convenience of city living, as long as it's not a huge city. New York City can fuck the hell off.