Compare And Contrast City Life And Country Life

County and City Living Where you choose to live alters your lifestyle and can even define who you are. This essay will specifically compare and contrast, having a country life and a city life. Both city and country living make excellent lives, but the lifestyle chosen can have a great impact on a person’s finances, serenity, and character. City and country living commonly have expenses, though country life has more options to avoid expenses by undertaking tasks yourself. There’s nothing wrong with dwelling in the city, but it can be expensive. Everyday life has unexpected expenses, but there are expenses that can be expected. City life, as with any lifestyle, partakes things such as food and entertainment that are portions of ordinary life.

The price of food in a grocery store is expensive and it seems to get more so every year. The price of food seems to be on a scale; with the lowest priced foods being processed, unhealthy junk and the higher priced foods being what is healthy to consume. This is fine if you don’t mind being unhealthy (which is unlikely) or if you don’t mind spending a great deal of money to keep healthy. In the city, if you wish to be entertained it’s going to cost you. For example; if you wish to practice hitting golf balls you must pay to use a driving range, or, if you shoot a gun you need to pay to use a firing range. However; if you live in the country, food and entertainment can be cheaper if not free. Country life provides ample room for growing food, or raising livestock for consumption. This means you are not limited to only buying the costly food from a grocery store. Although you must buy seeds for planting and animals for raising, it is far less costly than food from a grocery store. Regarding entertainment, country life provides plenty of it and at a low price of

City life can be convenient for a person; they don’t have to travel very far to get what they need. This convenience can often make them unappreciative of what it is they have. City life tends to require very little physical work, consequently, a lack of physical work can often lead to laziness. Meanwhile; when a person lives out in the country, away from everything else, it tends to take longer to acquire things (whether it is the drive to a store or waiting for the internet to load). The wait for something, whether it be a necessity or not, will often make someone appreciative when they obtain the item. Country life can be a great deal of physical work. Having to do work on the land is part of the country lifestyle. Many who live in the country, live from the land and there is no room for laziness. If you are a lazy farmer you will starve to death, it’s as simple as that. This need for physical work becomes part of their character: a hard-working