Compare/ Contrast Rural and Urban Living

Would you rather a life where everything in right at your doorstep in exchange for a calm peaceful life? Or maybe live within a united community in exchange for a closer job, and everything seemingly easier. Well this is the reality we live in. Everything has its advantages and its disadvantages, we can’t have it all. Whether choosing the country or town life depends on the utilities, community, environment and facilities provided. Utilities provided to an area are important when it comes to town or city life. For instance within the city there is much movement, cars passing on the roads transporting the constantly travelling public, so the roads are well maintained. In the case of the country, there is less traffic so therefore, less emphasis is placed on maintaining the roads there. Water supply is crucial but yet again, as more people move into the big cities great concern is placed there leaving the communities in the country area to resort to using rivers, springs and rainfall as a source of water. While the city is well lit by electricity companies, a long dark journey awaits those who use the rural roads at night often seeing little or no light from houses nearby. Within the urban areas basic utilities are well provided but not always for rural areas. Community life is quite different in rural areas from the urban. Often fighting to get by to get bigger better job opportunities as prices rise city dwellers often become competitive even shunning family to get a higher status. Family businesses in farming and the sale of fresh produce are often a factor of country living where they co-operate so that everyone progress though there may be disputes. In the city people often keep to themselves minimizing recreational activities while heritage festivals and “Best Village” competitions take place in the country. The smell of fast food allures many people to buy it in the towns, whereas, home cooked creole styled food steals the hearts of country families. There is much difference throughout the town and country communities. The different environmental factors are very noticeable between the two lifestyles. Hundreds of houses may be packed into a small urban area but in rural areas you must drive a good distance to even notice as many as fifteen houses. Around each corner there are small establishments and large commercial blocks in towns. There are more open areas of land, shady trees, rivers and wild life habitats and cool places where you can take a stroll and enjoy a cool country breeze. It is quite popular for town people go shopping in supermarkets where there are a lot of imported products. Local markets are more prominent in the rural areas and country people get a portion of their goods there. So the environment is quite different in the city districts from the country districts. The availability of facilities within a country depends in whether it is in an urban or rural area. There are numerous public and private health care facilities within the city as the population is fairly larger than that of the country. Sparsely placed medical facilities which may even be under equipped ones will be found within the country areas as they demand is lower. Everywhere you go in the city it’s not hard to spot a cinema but in the country it’s easier to spot a wide vats area of land and forests. The provision of facilities differs as u move from a country to a town setting. So community, facilities, utilities and environmental factors that makes the two areas so different. When moving from one to the other it is drastically different.