In a present, many people are getting tired about the crowed city life and dreaming to move to a small rural town. However, I prefer to live in a big city rather than a small town. Unlike a small town, metropolitan provides many opportunities and convenient life to its residents.
First of all, there are various convenient systems or infrastructures including public transportations, medical facilities, and more. By using the subway and city bus, people can quickly go to any destinations wherever they want by paying rational cost. Moreover, citizens can be favored by the medical care service at the nearest hospital in the situation of getting any injuries or diseases. Furthermore, it is easy to purchase various products or supplies in the mall at anytime. Compare to metropolitan, in small towns, people have to go to other cities to get high quality medical treatments and products, and even have to take long time to get there. However, metropolitans don’t have to waste their time. They can access to all of benefits immediately at where they live.
Second, there are more opportunities such as employment. Since the service industry is abundant and many companies are placing their headquarters and branches in cities, labor power and employees are always highly demanded. Moreover, as a city has more occupations in various fields, it is easier to find a job that individuals are looking for. For example, there is no or very limited demand on the jobs related with IT or computer engineering. Therefore, even if a member of small towns is fascinated about IT, it would be hard to find a proper job or to insure adequate income. However, comparing a small town or rural place, there are great amount of job opportunities related with those fields in a big city.
As it is mentioned above, metropolitan provides many benefits to its residents. It might be true that a big city has some negative factors such as pollution and high crime rate. However, still its numerous points provide benefits to comfort many people rather than exacerbate people’s life status.
That's a good point, I never thought about it that way.
ReplyDeleteI have visited big cities before, and really loved NYC, but Columbus is my first experience with an urban environment. I have lived in a small town since birth, and I have really enjoyed all of the opportunities here, but I do miss the people. In a small town everyone knows and cares about you, would do absolutely anything for you. There is a sense of comfort and safety to it. This is something that can not be duplicated anywhere else.
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