Small towns or big cities. Which are friendlier?

[kingricefan]

I've lived in both also. I didn't like the fact that in the small town everyone knew everyone's business. Right now I live in the second largest city in Washington-Spokane-but it still has a somewhat small town feel to it, people are for the most part friendly, but don't get all up in your grill about your 'stuff'.

[smooth operator]

I always get that vibe in the south.

Then you need to come and visit me.

[Lina]

I live in a rather big city. To my mind, small towns are friendlier, because people there everyone knows everyone, they share the same ideas, they understand each other, while in big cities people often do not care about each other, they are always in a hurry and mind just their own business. It's kind of sad, because the world would be so much better if people were friendlier towards each other.

[atomicinchworm]

It really depends on the city, I think.

I love, love Kansas City. People seem ginuenely nice here, and it is a really good size.

Denver, on the other hand, has the same population but half the area, and is full of jerkphaces.

People are happier, I think, with more space between their neighbors.

[Jojo87]

I've never lived in a big city so can't tell but I live in a small town and have to tell that most of the people here in my
town is pretty friendly. But the there is some that you don't want to start any conversation with. You can see in their face that
they really are not up for talking today. But in my work I meet a lot of different people everyday and mostly is great people to
talk and start some discussion with. Was in a news paper once that made me think of Steve and his stories about small towns, that my hometown is a small
town where everybody knows each other.

[jacobtlong]

I have lived in Mobile, Alabama, all my life. And not the downtown area, either. I live a good forty minutes away from downtown and I don't go there that often.

I suppose I don't mind where I live, really. But I'd have to live in a big city first to really test that theory. Personally, I've never had to deal with that small town mindset of our way is the only way because I don't live in a town like all those that have been described in SK novels. Pretty much everyone I know minds their own business. But then I'm not very outgoing and I don't exactly have my finger on the pulse of Mobile's collective social mindset. My friends sometime joke that I'd be perfectly at home living on an island like Tom Hanks in Cast Away.

[Autumn Gust]

We moved into a loft downtown a year ago after spending what seems like an eternity in the suburbs. I've lived in all sizes of towns but I have to say I'm loving it where I am now. It takes a certain type to even want to live downtown. Granted, Sacramento isn't some huge cultural, cosmopolitan magnet, but its downtown does have a distinct vibe. People are friendlier, liberal, more diverse, and edgier. And entertainment is cheap-- there's definitely always something interesting to look at.

[Shasta]

I live in the south.....

Hey, both my husband and best friend are southern and they are some of the best people in the world. It's not everyone by any means, but there definitely is that kind of culture.