Do you live in the city?

P+G

P+G

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Does anyone live in London or any other big cities? I just have in my mind the idea that if you're living in a busy place then you can merge in with the crowd. Whenever I go to London I feel like I'm part of the busy lifestyle, no one will stop and stare at you. Whereas when you're in a small town then everyone is very noticeable. In London you can wear whatever you want and there's definately much more to do and see. That's one of the main reasons why I want to go to university in London. I think it'll help take my selective mutism away. What is it like for you?
 
recluse

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I've lived in the same rural area all my life. So far so good there's no crime, but people do tend to be more nosey.
 
Harleyq

Harleyq

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I feel the same way as you. I live in a small town so everyone knows everyone else and I feel like I have no privacy. I can't confide anything cause it'll spread halfway across town
 
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IJustWantMyLifeBack

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I live in a big city.. well not as big as London ! Sydney, but you know I still feel it's small and you bump into people you have not seen all the time.. I never feel anywhere is big in my mind !
 
Jake123

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I live in Miami and it sucks. I still manage to stick out of the crowd of est. 5,413,212 people.
 
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Bar-AKA-Redzer

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i live on the outskirts of Dublin City in the council housing estates that make up most of the northside of Dublin its about 20 mins from the city.
 
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LycraPantiies92

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P+G said:
Does anyone live in London or any other big cities? I just have in my mind the idea that if you're living in a busy place then you can merge in with the crowd. Whenever I go to London I feel like I'm part of the busy lifestyle, no one will stop and stare at you. Whereas when you're in a small town then everyone is very noticeable. In London you can wear whatever you want and there's definately much more to do and see. That's one of the main reasons why I want to go to university in London. I think it'll help take my selective mutism away. What is it like for you?
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Nope. I'd say i live in the country (well hardly ..but it's a town kinda suburban) even though it's central scotland there's hardly anything called countryside lol. :rolleyes:
Yeah i think people wouldn't notice me as much when i go to edinburgh or glasgow. They don't, and people in glasgow are actually so friendly, whereas not in edinburgh really. But that doesn't matter it's just the way it is i suppose, and the friendly people are actually genuine not intimidating.
Yeah i'd imagine people wouldnt look at me or shout abuse at me at all in London. In my local shopping center they do lol D:
I would want to live in a big city if i could..and if it was possible i'd go to a uni in a big city..even Leeds or manchester or somewhere. London would be way better but that isn't possible. Lol i'm not goin to uni anyways.
Always makes me wonder what it would be like in a big city where people are surely more acepting of the quiet ones..People in this town gossip about people like us like we should be sent to another planet >.< x
 
Cynic

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LycraPantiies92 said:
Nope. I'd say i live in the country (well hardly ..but it's a town kinda suburban)
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Glasgow isn't a suburban town or in the country!

LycraPantiies92 said:
Yeah i'd imagine people wouldnt look at me or shout abuse at me at all in London.
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I'm sure there's plenty of them there too.

LycraPantiies92 said:
if it was possible i'd go to a uni in a big city..even Leeds or manchester or somewhere.
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Glasgow is bigger than those two cities.

LycraPantiies92 said:
People in this town gossip about people like us like we should be sent to another planet >.< x
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That's scheme life fur ye. If yer no sum drunken loudmouth gobshite ye don't fit in.

I'm from the same city as Lycra (Glasgow, Scotland), but I've stayed in Liverpool (England) for the past 14 years, so yeah I'm inner-city fodder.
 
PennyLane

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This is just my perspective but if you want to not be noticed then yeah a city is a good idea, as there are always crazier characters than you and everyone is too busy to care. That also means its a lonely place too I think...because again, no one cares who you are.
 
Anomaly

Anomaly

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There's a fair amount of anonymity here - the metropolitan area estimated population is ~ 2,100,000.
 
Outshined

Outshined

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I live in Dallas. The entire metroplex is pretty expansive. It's true, in bigger cities you're just another face in the crowd...
 
Sinopia

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P+G said:
Does anyone live in London or any other big cities? I just have in my mind the idea that if you're living in a busy place then you can merge in with the crowd. Whenever I go to London I feel like I'm part of the busy lifestyle, no one will stop and stare at you. Whereas when you're in a small town then everyone is very noticeable. In London you can wear whatever you want and there's definately much more to do and see. That's one of the main reasons why I want to go to university in London. I think it'll help take my selective mutism away. What is it like for you?
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I live in a town in the Netherlands. Actually every town overhere is small. My hometown isn't that small for a dutch town, but it's still like that everyone knows each other. Some people are really backstabbers. And yeah, some people can be very nosy sometimes. I've always wanted to move to a bigger town or to a city, cuz I think it might be more interesting and relaxed for me there. Every time when I'm in the cities, I feel so comfortable. Some people asked me: Why don't you just stay here? Does the grass really always look greener on the other side?!?

If I didn't have social phobia, then I still would make the discision to move to the cities. I don't think moving will be a big problem for all of us. We do have an avoidant personality, but why should people stay in their hometown for the rest of their life? There's so much to do and see and to discover in the cities. Everyone will find their own way.
 
P+G

P+G

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Exactly, I think it'll be like an adventure. Kind of scary but also very exciting.
 
Hoth

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I'm in a suburbany town (16,000 people), but the noise level on weekends and evenings gets annoying. I'd like to move somewhere smaller, eventually. It's true that there's more anonymity in a big city, but the constant noise would drive me insane. And I don't have to worry about gossip or whatever since I've never chatted with anyone in the towns I've lived in.
 
Remus

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I live in Manchester, the city center is quite cosmopolitan with the university quarter with lots of foriegn students, then we have chinatown, the curry mile and the gay village, also the hip northern quarter. So as cities go its quite relaxed. I've never felt that stressed there. There are suburbs though that are best avoided.

I've been to London and I'd say I hate it the most out of all the cities I've visited, way too overcrowded, rude people, THE UNDERGROUND :eek: , just tooooo big. great stes to see though.

other cities I've been to:

LA -hated.... not good for SA, every bugger finds out you are english and asks if you met the queen, also way too hot! should have gone to SF
Barcelona - great, very arty!
Amsterdam - amazing and felt like home, very relaxed.
York - wonderful and oldy worldy, freindly mellow people
Edinburgh - highbrow and old curiosityish, very cosmo and relaxed
Glasgow - avoid the suburbs!
Liverpool - the docks are good, thats it though.
Chester - simlar to york but bigger
Bradford - errrgh!
 
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