This is a real toughy, for a country girl like me. Although I haven’t lived in the country for years and years and the city I live in is small with a population of about 13,000 people, it’s still a city. Actually some people might consider it a town.
To me, a town is a place with a population of about 500-5000 people and anything larger than 10,000 is a city.
It’s all very subjective. When I say I lived in the country, I mean there are miles between yards or houses…or at least a mile. And your yard sits on say…35 acres at least.
Some people live on an acreage and a stone’s throw from one another but because it’s “out of town”, they call it the country. That’s not the country to me.
A city of the future is not something that interests me in the least. What I love about cities are the least futuristic parts.
The old narrow streets and alleyways with the little shops tucked into them.
The ancient architecture that makes you stop and wonder how on earth people created it one hundred years ago, without the technology or machinery of today. Those old banks, with the pillars and the concrete lion’s head perched above. Like how did they do that?
The residential streets with the old two and three story veranda wrapped homes, where you look down the street and you can’t see the sky for the canopy of tree branches. Is there anything more pleasing to the eye?!
Actual neighborhoods with convenience stores on the corner. A bakery just down from that.
And a mom and pop grocery store that is not part of a chain.
That’s the kind of futuristic city I’d bring back if I could.
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