auntblabby wrote:
i just don't have the superfast/supercomplex mental processing genes necessary for successful city living. too many no-parking tow-away zones, parking meters, pole-mounted traffic signals, hidden street signs, noisy things, gridlocked traffic situations, confusingly tangled streets, never-ending street-construction work, people zigzagging everywhich way, stressful things in general. i just can't keep track of it all without getting lost out of my gourd. i can only survive in the rural woodsy places with no red lights, no parking meters, no crowds, no noise, no tangled streets always and haphazardly blocked by construction work, no people. anybody else on WP share my feelings on this issue?
p.s.- SF was the only city which made sense to me, but i just couldn't afford to live there.

I live in a rural area and the houses are on 1 to 4 acre lots and it's nice in some ways.
I usually have to drive 20,000-22k + miles a year just to go to work and fuel prices were running us between 6 and 7 hundred a month when gas peaked @ 4 bucks a few years ago( for both of us).
We had some problem neighbors who insisted they could have chickens and ducks and kept 6 beagles in a kennel , and if the barking beagles didnt get on your nerves , then the crowing roosters would at dawn ,as sometimes they would parked themselves under my bedroom window.
We have a well and septic tank , and if you lose power you lose all water until the power comes back on.
The septic tank has to be pumped out and I have to dig 1 foot down to uncover the top for this.
The top has two concrete doors or lids and it takes a bottle jack and a 4x4 timber and chain to lift the these concrete covers off- every 7 years for our load..... I made up this rig to lift this as the covers are 350lbs each.
I had to install a back up generator because of frequent power outages.....need water to flush toliet.
Sometime ago , some city people lived next door , and they moved back to the city, when their septic drain field clogged and the 'septic pooh' runs over your grass and it backs up into your house..... a very expensive fix too.
I was born in the city , in a steel mill town near Lake Michigan, two blocks from Purdue University.
The neighborly tension is high when you have little lots, and all in all I wouldn't trade it .
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