Post by Ganbare! on May 10, 2010 16:09:40 GMT -5
What type of neighborhood do you live in: demographics, architecture, suburbia, city or the countryside? How does your city shape your everyday lifestyle, leisure or relationships?
I lived a significant part of my existence in suburbia, sometimes residential mostly populated by Caucasians, other times impoverished, more ethnically diverse, those years were quite boring sharing my time between school and television. On the other hand I've lived downtown of faily big metropolises where the omnipresence of culture has influenced my interest for it. It's pretty hard to skip all the surrounding music venues, museums, bookshops, festivals occuring year-round to stay home and play video games! Living in such environments allows me to spend much more time out, to meet more ethnically and socially-diverse people but it comes at the expense of enduring noise, crime or more stress.
New York/Montreal are both confronted to a depressing urban decay, a lot of the urban equipment is old, unaesthetic red bricks buildings with outdated safety measures, drug addicts wandering aimlessly, children playing without surveillance and litter on the pavement make these places look further like third-world cities than developped ones.
I lived a significant part of my existence in suburbia, sometimes residential mostly populated by Caucasians, other times impoverished, more ethnically diverse, those years were quite boring sharing my time between school and television. On the other hand I've lived downtown of faily big metropolises where the omnipresence of culture has influenced my interest for it. It's pretty hard to skip all the surrounding music venues, museums, bookshops, festivals occuring year-round to stay home and play video games! Living in such environments allows me to spend much more time out, to meet more ethnically and socially-diverse people but it comes at the expense of enduring noise, crime or more stress.
New York/Montreal are both confronted to a depressing urban decay, a lot of the urban equipment is old, unaesthetic red bricks buildings with outdated safety measures, drug addicts wandering aimlessly, children playing without surveillance and litter on the pavement make these places look further like third-world cities than developped ones.