Thesedays, an increasing number of people pursue their lives in suburb area. Because they think they can be more satisfied with lives in villages and farms than lives in cities. However, in my opinion, when it comes to satisfaction, I think people living in cities are much more satisfied with their lives than those in villages and farms There are two reasons that I could discuss to support my opinion.
First of all, living in cities serves people a lot more convenience than in rural area. Because there are many people living in cities, lots of facilities and services can be concentrated in city areas in order to fulfill requirements of people. People living in city area can go to anywhere they want to go near their houses, such as a theater, restaurants, supermarkets and so on. However, people who live in rural area have limitation in this situation. They have to go to the facilities far away from their house. Let’s say, I want to go to buy groceries and see movies. If I live in rural areas, I only have to get vehicles like bus and train to go the shopping mall to buy groceries and see a movie. But, If I live in big city like Seoul, Korea, I just go to the shopping mall and theater near my house. And this is applicable in any other situation, such as going to PC room, library, bookstore and so on. In this way, people living in city area are less stressful and much more happier in this situation. Therefore, they will be more satisfied with their lives
Second, living in rural areas makes people lonely. It is said that people were born naturally in social beings and we cannot live with no friends nearby me. In case of living in rural area, People have few friends or no friends near by them and it is hard for them to meet their friends far from their houses because of the lack of transportation systems. So they can’t enjoy fun things with their friends together nearby. But in cities, people can meet friends closed to their houses and can go to meet their friends house farther by taking convenient transportations. For example, If I live in rural area and have no convenient transportations and friends nearby me, I don’t have no choice but to stay alone and not to talk. Eventually, I’ll go crazy. However, in my case, I usually talk about mutual interests and enjoy games with my friends on weekdays. In this way, living in cities allows me to have a sense of happiness and I feel better with my friends.
To sum up, I strongly maintain the idea that people living in cities are more satisfied with their lives than people living in rural areas by giving two examples: convenience and not lonliness. In this regard, In this technology ages, we cannot say living in rural areas makes people be satisfied with their lives.