# City or Country?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-or-country/370856>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 31, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-or-country/370856 "2006-08-31T00:33:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/city-or-country/370856/21 "2006-09-01T02:36:09Z")

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I grew up in a town with one stoplight, or when we were at my parents farm-house, where my mom grew up, it was about 5 miles either way to a stoplight, but not too far out. In the past few years, for college, I have lived in a dorm, an apartment downtown, and now, the downstairs of a house that is away from campus and in a “nicer” area of town. My university is not in a large city, but compared to where I came from, it is. I will admit, I miss the space of living out in the country, and when I finish my degree, we plan on looking at houses back in that area. That’s 2 years, not 5…but it being one of the only county school districts in Ohio, there is the chance of not getting a teaching job in the area, in which case we will be looking outside of the Athens area or near the university here but maybe out in the county a little ways.

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