1. City-Hardcore:
Incredibly tall buildings, cold winters, industrial mills or ports (i.e. New York, Chicago)

2. City-Scenic/Lively:
Modern skyline, warm weather, upbeat locals (i.e. Los Angeles, Miami, Las Vegas)

3. City-small:
‘Urban’ life close to home (Albany, Grand Rapids, Tulsa)


4. Country- Coastal:
Countryside that is always near the beach and the ocean air.

5. Country-Heartland:
Small isolated towns and farms amidst the grasslands, cornfields and light forests.

6. Country-Wilderness:
Complete isolation in the mountains and heavy terrain forests.


7. Suburbs-urban/suburban:
An actual city (not town) that is small relative to the big city it lies next to with a simple transportation system that is very limited but a remnant from when the downtown was the bomb.

8. Suburbs-have it all/sprawl:
The place that everyone moved to so that they could get a bigger house, with small trees and big shopping malls, where every store on the road has a parking lot the size of Target’s or Barnes and Noble’s.

9. Suburbs-small:
A small town that is relatively close to other small suburban towns that unlike the Country-Heartland town, has mostly chain stores and fast food joints rather that mom and pop main street stores and restaurants.



My favorite to live:
1, 2, 9, 7, 4, 3, 8, 6, 5

My favorite to visit:
1, 2, 8, 3, 9, 4, 5, 6, 7

Most likely 5. I'd really like 6, though, but that's just a fantasy that will likely never come true as I wouldn't be any good at that "survival" thing, and there'd likely be a lot of spiders.

7 or 8 does it for me. The countryside has really made me desire better living and places that I can walk to to get things that I really want (electronic stuffs).

1 and 2. Even though I wouldn't call them hardcore.

fourty-five, actually.
home is where your rump rests.

What would you call them? Are there any urban environments that you would call hardcore?

10: Maine.
It realy is in a class by its self.

Oooh, i like number 5 ^^

I like the grasslands, and lots and lots of plants. Anyway it seems pretty peaceful.But i pick number 8 next.There's no mall on the countryside...right?

I would also like to visit number 4

1. City-Hardcore:
Works fine by me. I'm a city person. Just not if that 'cold winters' factor is there. Then, no chance.

2. City-Scenic/Lively:
Yup, that's me. Definetly. Probably this is were I'll be spending my life.

3. City-small:
Fun to visit, but not that much of a great place to live in.

4. Country- Coastal:
Amazing. If it is merged with 2 (like the city I live in, Rio) then even better. If not... just good to visit from time to time. Perhaps even from weekend to weekend, depending.

5. Country-Heartland:
Boring. Dull. Good only to visit the occasional grandmother.

6. Country-Wilderness:
I plan on living in one of those, but only for a period of time, a few years at most. I really like this place, but only as an experience.

7. Suburbs-urban/suburban:
See no difference from this one to 3...

8. Suburbs-have it all/sprawl:
I know only one place like this one, and no... definetly not good to live in. Mainly because everything is too far away, and you can't go anywhere without a car.

9. Suburbs-small:
Also... sounds the same as 3 to me...

Thanks for evaluating all nine places individually.

I agree with a lot of what you wrote as you can see from my original post. Especially that 3 often time are fun to visit (go out on the town for a night or a weekend with friends, family) but they are for my preferences, too small to live in.

I also agree that 7 is a lot like 3, but there are two key distinctions. I am thinking the US here, so it might be different in Brazil, but usually 3 has a population and geography about three or four times the size of 7, but 7 is situated as a suburb, next to a place like 1 or 2 which is three or four times the size of 3.
Therefore, whereas 3 is similar to but a fair size larger than 7, that is all the ‘urbanity’ or ‘city’ there is in that area. If the individuals from 7, however, feel like they need more, they can head over into 1 or 2 as they are actually suburban cities of the much larger neighboring city.
In other words, a place like 3 has its’ own radio stations, TV stations, and is considered the ‘big city’ in the area., unlike a place like 7 that is the little brother of 1 or 2, that doesn’t get any attention as anything other than being a suburb.

I think that 9 and 3 are very different. I meant 3 to be if anything closest to 8 in commercial style and 5 in commercial scope. It has the small town-ness of 5 (as opposed to the hustle and bustle of traffic and ‘bigger is better attitude’ of 8 ), but unlike 5 which is isolated from other towns or cities by farmland or forest, several 9 and 8 towns lie next to teach other, usually as suburbs of either 1, 2, or 3. Places like 9 don’t tend to have big malls, but they have the occasional strip mall with a Starbucks, or a Coldstone, and a Walgreen’s and McDonalds, but driving them is usually peaceful and calm and unlike the (ironically) small trees of the big man made subdivisions of 8, the community is actually slowly built into the existing forest.

About the cold winters of 1, and the reason I call it Hardcore (to Agentsix), places like 2 (and I would assume this to be the case of big Brazilian cities) are more leisurely paced, people as a community outside enjoy the sun and the skyline is almost an afterthought to pleasantly remind you that this city was designed for people with a purpose in mind.

Places like 1, oftentimes have moments of 2, especially during the summer months, but they also have other dimensions, they can often be frantic, and during the cold and cynical winter months, the sun is often hard to feel as the immensely tall buildings cast an impenetrable shadow, it is as though the buildings themselves are trying to figure out why they are there. Lost for purpose they heed not that they ‘steal’ the warmth of the sun from those below. During the winter, 1 is a community of individuals who traverse the dark industrial elements of the city looking for inner warmth, but often times when upon reaching a bar or a club where a few strangers have managed to escape the sub-freezing snow and ice, the individual with a chill in the back, washes their hands in the bathroom, turns, the knob to ‘hot’, only to feel the cold chill of hardcore urbanity. 1 is defintiely my favorite place to be.

Aah. Thanks for clarifying. So I'd have to say that 7 is neither a good place to live nor to visit, and 9 is a nice place to visit from time to time.

Hm. Yeah. I'm definetly not the winter type of guy. It takes way too much work to live during it (I do not have the least patience to put on 2 or 3 layers of clothes). Athough I have to admit the kind of city of 1 definetly has a charm to it.

2 or 8, but 4 for a summer home.

4 sounds nice. I always wanted to go somewhere that has palm trees. Not Florida it self. I would like to go to the Keys.