From city or country?

[Cartar]

So, just wanted to know how many of you are from cities and how many from country (villages etc.).

I, myself, am from around 1000-people village, have been living here for my entire life, although there's a 100k city 20km away (it's the second biggest city in Estonia, but in world sense I guess it's a very small town), so not that far from city as well.


PS. I added small cities/big cities as most of you are probably from towns anyway to create more options.

[rise]

No, a 100K city isn't a very small town, even here in the US.
The town I live in is a suburb of Charlotte, NC: home of the Bobcats. Charlotte and its suburbs and surrounding areas are about 1M, but my suburb is around 10,000-15,000 people. Charlotte is something like the 20th largest city in the US. The city alone is around 400K, and it's considered a medium size city.
Hope this helps you with whatever purpose this serves.

[JaoSming]

soemthing like 1000 people in my current town, going to somewhere that was maybe 500? Country

[buzzy]

Vienna, 1.6 million people

[Andrew]

I'll say big city (by Australian standards, anyway, Newcastle is the 6th or 7th largest city in the country) but it's probably somewhere between big city and small city, without a dense CBD but with reasonably large population and far-reaching suburbs.

[Dan's Brain]

I'm on the outskirts of Australia's second biggest city, Melbourne. It's growing all the time, especially out where I am. Everything I need is really close by, but the inner city is only about 40 minutes drive away. But an hour if I want to take the train.

[koberulz]

I'll say big city (by Australian standards, anyway, Newcastle is the 6th or 7th largest city in the country)

Given that 90% of the country's population lives in the first two...

[Andrew]

90%? Not even close. It's closer to 40%, which is still a considerable chunk of the population but nowhere near 90%.

[The X]

I live in Brisbane (big city - 2 million) but come from Christchurch, NZ (small city - 400k), so I voted small city.

[J@3]

Trying to work out the years spent in these places...

0-4: Sydney (big city)
4-16: Newcastle region (Newcastle is a small city, towns I lived in were essentially country towns)
16-18: Birmingham (big city)
18-21: Adelaide (bigish city)
21-: Melbourne (big city)

So that's 12 years in country towns and nearly 13 years in big cities. So cities gets the vote.

[|)e8*]

Currently living in Singapore, ermmm i shall call it a City-State

[el badman]

El Paso, TX - 750,000 people or so, plus 2 million plus if you count Juarez, that's right across the border.
Home of the largest military base in the US, so it keeps growing like crazy because of that.

[Martti.]

0-2 - Small village (Under 100 people)
2-15 - Small city (~3000 people)
15-now - Big City (~100,000 people)

[NovU]

about 2.7 million people here in lower mainland vancouver area. and surprisingly the population's increasing steadily with immigration flowing in, despite of low birth rate. I think unsafe sex is needed throughout our community and toughen up the immigration law a bit to balance it out a bit.

[koberulz]

90%? Not even close. It's closer to 40%, which is still a considerable chunk of the population but nowhere near 90%.

Don't really think nitpicking over exact numbers invalidates my point, though. That being that such a large portion of the population lives in the first two biggest cities that by the time you get down to 6 or 7 on the list, it's actually pretty small.

[Andrew]

It's not really nitpicking, the difference between 90% and 40% is substantial. There's a big difference between around 20 million people living in Sydney and Melbourne with just a couple of million scattered across the rest of Australia and around 8.5 million in Sydney and Melbourne with the remaining 13.5 million or so people spread across the rest of the country. I see your point, but 90% is hyperbole so it's worth noting the actual figures if we're discussing what constitutes a large city by Australian standards. This list breaks it down.

[Dan's Brain]

God, even the layout of Adelaide is boring.

[Andrew]

I don't know about everyone else, but I've got to give it to Brisbane and the Gold Coast when it comes to aerial shots.

[Lamrock]

Seattle has a fairly modest population (around 600K), but I selected "Big City", since its a major city.

[benji]

Still makes it one of the 25 largest cities and one of the 15 largest MSA's in the United States.

Since the OP and the poll has no definitions, it's impossible to tell what's a big city, small city or country.

[NovU]

Speaking of Seattle, I was surprised to see you guys losing the Sonics despite of being a big city which means pretty decent market out there for the team. For Vancouver Grizz, it was somewhat understandable as people here are just hockey nutz. And I remember my high school teach saying "basketball is only good when the game is close." and that pretty much says it all for most here.

[benji]

They wouldn't build a new arena for the owner.

[Valor]

but come from Christchurch, NZ

Glad to see a South Islander around at last

Hong Kong has about 7 million people, i guess that's a big city? We are just a tiny dot on the world map though....

[benji]

Hong Kong has about 7 million people, i guess that's a big city?

...

You know it's one of the 25 largest cities in the world, right?

[J@3]

God, even the layout of Adelaide is boring.

Adelaide is great. Not as much of a cesspool as Sydney and not as pretentious and wannabe-huge-city as Melbourne.