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Question: What is your ideal town population?
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5-500		  
#2
500-5000		  
#3
5000-20,000		  
#4
20,000-100,000		  
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100,000-500,000		  
#6
500,000-1,000,000		  
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1,000,000 or more		  
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All Along The Watchtower
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« on: November 21, 2011, 12:59:33 PM »
Would you rather live in a big city of millions, or a smaller city of 100,000, or a medium-sized town of  30,000, or a small town of 5,000, or one of those places with 5 people? Tongue


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« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2011, 01:05:05 PM »
Other:

50,000-250,000

Anything less than 50,000 feels too small and anything more than 250,000 feels too big.
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« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2011, 02:15:09 PM »
500 or so.
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« Reply #3 on: November 21, 2011, 02:31:00 PM »
My city is pretty perfect for me (1,500,000) though closer to 2,000,000 would be cool.
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« Reply #4 on: November 21, 2011, 02:39:28 PM »
Wow these are odd results for such a suburb-loving forum.
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« Reply #5 on: November 21, 2011, 02:45:53 PM »
50K
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« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2011, 02:53:32 PM »
1mil+, although skitowns would be fine too.
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« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2011, 04:11:49 PM »
Ideal: 500-1000

I think Vero Beach Florida is perfect, but with a MUCH larger population then I would normally prefer.
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« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2011, 04:12:39 PM »
5-500
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« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2011, 04:20:01 PM »
Don't care. Metro area counts more.
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« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2011, 04:29:15 PM »
500-5000. I hate big cities.
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« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2011, 04:50:04 PM »
1,000,000+

though I don't mind down to ~200,000.

(I'm using metro sizes of course.)
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2011, 05:45:20 PM »
1,000,000 is a bit smallish. I start feeling comfortable when it is closer to 5,000,000
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« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2011, 06:01:15 PM »
Over a million.  I'm out of the loop at the moment, but soon.
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« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2011, 06:24:26 PM »
Metro of about a million works for me. Any bigger and transportation and cost of living becomes a nightmare. Any smaller and there isn't much going on. I live in the Goldilocks zone and love it. Where to live, in the metro, is a separate question.
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« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2011, 06:47:15 PM »
I'm not so concerned with population as much as with location.  But ideally either 20-50,000 or a metro over a million.  Small metros tend to suck and be generally very sprawly and without character since they've grown the fastest in the past 30 years.  That said, I've always thought Omaha was a very nice mid-sized metro.
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« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2011, 08:46:01 PM »
2 million+
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« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2011, 08:46:34 PM »
I like BIG cities.
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« Reply #18 on: November 21, 2011, 08:50:04 PM »

Then you live in the wrong place.
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« Reply #19 on: November 21, 2011, 10:18:19 PM »
Quote from: FloridaRepublican on November 21, 2011, 04:29:15 PM
500-5000. I hate like visiting big cities but wouldn't want to live in one.
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« Reply #20 on: November 21, 2011, 10:19:36 PM »

He lives in between San Diego and Los Angeles, two of the biggest cities in the country. Perhaps he likes living near them but not in them.
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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2011, 05:26:37 AM »
     I find that it's more about population density than size. San Francisco only has about 800,000 people, but the 17,200 people/sq. mi. is pretty sweet.
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« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2011, 06:36:55 AM »
1 million+ (with acceptable density, i.e. not LA -- sorry Torie!)
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« Reply #23 on: November 22, 2011, 09:02:49 AM »
The population of the town or city (however defined) isn't really that important. What matters is that there is a real neighbourhood or community of some kind.
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« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2011, 09:37:01 AM »
60,000,000
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