Tend to be a city gal. As a child I lived for the first part of life in a city approx. population of 30,000..and then over time, by sheer coincidence lived in bigger cities.

Over the past 15 years, I have cycled in long distance trips in Canada and U.S. and of course, we end up in small rural areas. Also have stayed with good friends for a few days in their home towns of 2,000 people.

My partner also was a weekend farmer and had a farm 100 kms. outside a city of 1 million people. So I did experience it for a few days... each time for 3 years before he had to sell it.

Admittedly I like the buzz of a city, diversity of things to do, wider range of people to meet. Minimally I would want to be in a town or city that had a college or university...to take courses, also such institutions tend to attrack a broader range of people to work and to study there. And from that, there is often an offshoot of businesses that stimulate different thinking, different ways of communicating, different expression of art, etc.

Just watching tv, reading books and the Internet isn't good enough to grow my mind.