Calling fellow city dwellers

[Tarrel]

(26 March 2013, 09:56)Nutmeg Wrote: I am new here but I dont think I am wrong.
I get the idea that all you think that survival in a city is to hard.

How many here live in a big city? There is so much to be found in a city.
Yes it is dangerous at times but to escape to the country would be impossible without crossing really bad parts where guns and knives are used every day. Even the police wont get out of their cars there during the day let alone night time.

Take London. From the center to outside is 20 miles minimum.
No tube, no trains, no buses, no car, and you want to walk out?
You must be joking. Use a bike? You really are joking now.

I would also be unsure how to live in the country.
Except for trips to the coast the countryside seems like open spaces with not much there.
Within a mile of me is all sorts of things. Hospitals, chemists, warehouses, shops. When you look at what I can find, and what you seem to want to eat (roots and berries), unless I cant breath the air, why move.

Most city livers know how to survive.
Street awareness? We call that everyday living.

Perhaps you need a section purely on city survival.
Meg.

Touch of "town mouse vs country mouse" here. I think the dweller in one will tend to see the disadvantages of the other. An experienced country-dweller could show you a multitude of ways to survive and things to eat in just a square mile of "empty space". Similarly, someone unfamiliar with cities will see as a threat the places you see as resources. Horses for courses.

Maybe the ideal strategy is to get familiar and comfortable with where you are, so you can optimise your chances of survival there. This might mean knowing every inch of the terrain, knowing the people (good and bad), building networks and social capital, etc.

Interesting idea about a "city survival" section.