Advantages and Disadvantages of Life in a Great City
The advantages of living in a large town are many and obvious.
The town-dweller enjoys certain conveniences and comforts which the villager lacks. He has good and well-lighted roads; cheap public conveyances, such as trams and trains; a house with modern conveniences, such as water laid on, electric light and good sanitary arrangements; fine shops cose at hand to supply him with all necessaries and luxuries when he is well, and well-equipped hospitals to care for him when he is ill.
The dweller in the city can have all the congenial company he wants, and at small expense all kinds of social amusements. Such as theatres, cinemas, concerts and clubs.
Further, he can get the best education at first rate schools and colleges; and to feed and stimulate his mind, there are libraries, museums, art galleries, public lectures and literary societies. The keen competition, too, of town life sharpens his wits and makes him mantally alert.
Life in a town has also important moral benefits. In a large community a man tends to become liberal and broad-minded, he learns the calue of co-operation and discipline, and is stimulate to social interest and endeavour by the common life around him.
But life in a city has its own peculiar drawbacks. The rapid life, the late nights, the foul and smoky atmosphere, and the smells and dirt of the town, often undermine the health and shorten a mans’s life.
Them a town is full of bad characters and insidious temtations to vice and folly; and many a simple young man coming to the town from the country, is mprally ruined by bad habits and vices of which the contry man knows little.
Lastly, town life is more or less artificial, and the town-dweller loses hits tuch with nature. The simple life of the country becomes insipid to him and, living a fevered life in ugly surrounding, his taste for the delicate beauty of fields and woods, and the grandeur of mountains and of sea, is dulled.
Perhaps in the future men will design more and more
The town-dweller enjoys certain conveniences and comforts which the villager lacks. He has good and well-lighted roads; cheap public conveyances, such as trams and trains; a house with modern conveniences, such as water laid on, electric light and good sanitary arrangements; fine shops cose at hand to supply him with all necessaries and luxuries when he is well, and well-equipped hospitals to care for him when he is ill.
The dweller in the city can have all the congenial company he wants, and at small expense all kinds of social amusements. Such as theatres, cinemas, concerts and clubs.
Further, he can get the best education at first rate schools and colleges; and to feed and stimulate his mind, there are libraries, museums, art galleries, public lectures and literary societies. The keen competition, too, of town life sharpens his wits and makes him mantally alert.
Life in a town has also important moral benefits. In a large community a man tends to become liberal and broad-minded, he learns the calue of co-operation and discipline, and is stimulate to social interest and endeavour by the common life around him.
But life in a city has its own peculiar drawbacks. The rapid life, the late nights, the foul and smoky atmosphere, and the smells and dirt of the town, often undermine the health and shorten a mans’s life.
Them a town is full of bad characters and insidious temtations to vice and folly; and many a simple young man coming to the town from the country, is mprally ruined by bad habits and vices of which the contry man knows little.
Lastly, town life is more or less artificial, and the town-dweller loses hits tuch with nature. The simple life of the country becomes insipid to him and, living a fevered life in ugly surrounding, his taste for the delicate beauty of fields and woods, and the grandeur of mountains and of sea, is dulled.
Perhaps in the future men will design more and more