I live in a bigger city but I’m currently residing in a cabin in the woods, away from civilization. It has got a fire place going, some basic stuff and lots of board games etc. It also has a nice garden thing where you can just chill out for a bit. There’s beautiful woods surrounding it where you can walk.
I like living in the city, with all its chaos. But whenever I’m out in nature I feel this immense rest coming over me. I don’t know if I can actually live here, but for now it’s good. My gf’s family is talking about buying property in rural Sweden and they want to build a house there, one where the kids can always visit. I like the idea of living a rural simple life. Can’t leave the city now though, with all the activism going on. Bit harder to radicalize the deers in the woods.
I live in one of the villages in the Northern part of Hong Kong. It might count as city for most people, but compared to the actual city parts of Hong Kong it’s extremely villagey. You can kind of see the difference on satellite maps. Shenzhen is extremely urbanized right up to the border with Hong Kon and then suddenly there’s a lot of green, partly due to hills and mostly due to the New Territories having a lot of undeveloped land, but keep going South and the urban sprawl builds up again.
The effect of this is that I’m 20 minutes by metro away from one of the most densely populated places on Earth, but there’s trees and hills out my window, and birdsong in the morning. It’s great.