Do you feel that there is more privacy in large cities or small towns? Why?

Question

I've lived both in large, urban, metropolitan areas and I've lived in small, rural, isolated areas. And I get two answers for this. Some move to the cities for more privacy (everyone knows your business in a town of 400 people), and some move to the country for more privacy (you can drive ten minutes and not see anybody for miles). But I suppose a lot of it depends on your description of privacy (emotional, physical, personal) and your general preferences regarding city life vs country life.

What does privacy mean to you? Is privacy important in choosing where you live? Have you found more privacy in densely populated areas or sparsely populated areas?

Answer 1

Privacy means a lot to me and it does play a large part in choosing where I live. Large cities definitelyhave more privacy. Even though that doesn't seem possible, say in a city like NYC with so many people constantly around you. But in big cities, people are so used to being surround be others, that they tune them out eventually and hardly pay attention to the bum sleeping on the front steps of their office bldg, let alone the neighbors choking each other down the hall. On the other hand, small town people are nosy as heck. They don't have much else to focus on (sorry, but I'm from a small town so no offense) so they focus on anything exciting and gossip worthy.

Answer 2

Well, be careful what you wish for would be the key phrase here. The "privacy" that you achieve when you go and live in that big city, might turn out to be the isolation of living among indifferent strangers who are too busy about their own lives to have time to notice you exist. I've travelled the world and lived in some real extremes. I once had a small apartment in a place where the neighbors could look through my kitchen window and see exactly what I was taking out of the fridge LOL.
You are right that it depends a whoooole lot on how YOU, as a person, define privacy. I think most of us feel more comfortable when we are not in a living situation where we feel everything we say can be overheard and everything (or almost everything) we do is probably being observed by a set of eyes. However, you will never be more alone in your life, no matter where you are, than when something happens that you need help and there is no-one to know about it, and come running.
It usually only takes one incident like that for a person to grow a brand new attitude towards exactly how much "privacy" he really wants.
In this "brave new 21st century world" we are all learning that, like it or not, privacy by almost any definition, ain't what it used to be. We've got video cameras everywhere. global satellite positioning that can locate us wherever we are; DNA and even Iris Recognition that makes it impossible for us any longer to even deny WHO we are. lol. These days there really is no hiding place, and over time I think we will (we have to) change our whole way of thinking and feeling about "self exposure". It's going to come down to a realisation that we are all listed, tagged, numbered, categorized and data-based, and specifically identified in just about every way but a personal tag in our earlobes. The best way of looking at it is that, hey, if we are getting on about our lives in a perfectly normal, honest, self-respecting way, we shouldn't have any cause to be concerned; and if we are NOT acting like an upstanding, law-abiding good citizen, w ell then perhaps Society should be able to keep tabs on us in order to protect others from our unacceptable behaviours.
I like to believe that in these hi-tech, instant information times, the overwhelming majority of us are still decent human beings who recognise the need to show sensitivity and respect towards other people; be aware of them in case they need our help, but considerate of them when it comes to allowing them their personal comfort zone of privacy. After all, we realise, don't we, that we do things in private that we don't really want anyone to know that we do or, heaven forbid, see us doing LOL. I learned a lesson a few days ago, chatting away to somebody forgetting my webcam was on, and was caught seemingly picking my nose. Actually I was examining a sore spot inside one nostril, but it sure looked like picking to the other person, who lost no time letting me know that my actions had been observed. We both had a good laugh, and I think that is what we are going to have to learn to do more and more in future.

Answer 3

i think of pondering sturdy medical care is maximum extreme. additionally quicker or later, you will possibly be able to settle on driving isn't on your superb interest so it could pay to be someplace which you will grab a taxi or bus and bypass the place you go with to bypass. there are various greater issues to do in great cities too that one in no way had time to do while they have been working. yet each guy or woman has to %. what they go with and what they are able to discover the money for. i might like living in an upscale place in an area that has various issues to do yet i will't discover the money for it. $ is the biggest factor. I opted for extremely on the exterior of a much bigger city yet no longer great. It does not furnish the centers like degree performs, great museums ...all of the places one takes with no attention in great cities...yet I do stay to tell the tale water and have a lot of birds and critters all around and it truly is heat incredibly some the time and the coastline is a few 30 minutepersistent.

Answer 4

Large cities defintely gives you the chance to have more privacy. The problem is that in spite of that I still prefer small towns.

Answer 5

Large cities. I live in a small town and everyone knows everyone else's business. A small town thrives on gossip.
In a larger city, you kind of blend in.

Answer 6

Privacy upto a point is okay. It should not lead to isolation. I would like to mingle with people in a friendly way but would not like people barging in as and when they please. I feel big cities offer more privacy.

Answer 7

in my opinion in large cities you can have more privacy

Answer 8

bid cities, more people