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Things I Love About... Living in the City
Montreal, QC - EvilGentleman - Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 : goo
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Most of my childhood was spent moving from one Canadian Air Force base to the next, with frequent visits to see my grandmother in my hometown of Kahnawake, located across the river from Montreal. Almost every air base I lived on was located in a rural part of the country, so I always looked forward to going home for a visit, since there were so many wonderful things to experience in the city. I think most of us here on citynoise have things we love about the urban world, so why not put together a page where we can share these things, including the many "little things" that have yet to appear in a photo post.
This post is the first of my Things I Love About... series, although I must give credit to Micah, whose Things I Love About Public Transit article was the first to see the positive flipside of my Things I Hate About... series.
LIVING IN THE CITY
1 - No matter what time of day or night it is, there is always something interesting going on
2 - Always getting first shot at buying new exciting products
3 - Less prejudice
4 - The various delicious smells coming from the restaurants in multicultural neighbourhoods
5 - Lots of interesting people to meet
6 - Not having to go far away to find what you need
7 - If you do something silly, the whole city will not be gossiping about you the next day
8 - Sidewalk vendors
9 - Decent libraries
10 - Being able to use public transit systems
11 - People-watching
12 - First-run theaters
13 - Much less likely to smell farm animals
14 - Those chance encounters with strangers that open your eyes and stimulate your mind
15 - Meeting people from all over the world
16 - Bike paths
17 - Music concerts
18 - Festivals
19 - Parades
20 - Better medical care
21 - Art galleries
22 - Finding "private" places in the midst of chaos
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EvilGentleman: 17th May 2006 - 15:36 GMT
23 - Being able to play tourist at home and actually experience new things
24 - Being able to go octopussing evilgentleman.livejournal.com/
Chris Erb: I can agree with all of these.
EvilGentleman: 17th May 2006 - 16:47 GMT
26 - The joy of knowing that most of the beautiful women you see are not your cousins
jack: 18th May 2006 - 00:38 GMT
27 - looking out your window and seeing a bridge.
28 - looking out your window and seeing the girl in the next apartment building getting dressed, (ahem).
29 - sitting on your stoop and never see the sun.
30 - walking from river to river in 20 minutes.
black montana: just the sites and sounds of the city
jeeff: 21st May 2006 - 04:15 GMT
32. extracting the maximum wheat tax from my rural sharecroppers for the central government.
EvilGentleman: 16th Oct 2006 - 00:14 GMT
No problem. One must always remember to give credit where credit is due.
Seebo: 30th Dec 2006 - 16:49 GMT
i really just plain dont like living in the city. I like the job opportunities though and that's why I'm here. I like nature and peace and quite more than concrete and traffic.
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