Some people may prefer to live in a small town. However I would like to live in a big city, such as New York and Seoul. There are numerous reasons why I want to live in a big city. Among them are difference in opportunities and saving countryside for vacation.
To begin with, the bigger a city is, the more opportunities exist. Google, Apple, Samsung, and other global conglomerates have one thing in common. Their headquarters are located in big cities. This is because that there are more business opportunities in metropolises than small country towns. According to research report, conducted by UN statistics department in 2016, the numbers of enterprises in each city around the world has a strong positive correlation with city’s population. Even rural based startups move to big cities when they need to hire talented people to expand the business. This result shows that there are more chances for individuals to get a fine job in metropolises. Furthermore, this trend appears not only in job market, but also in cultural experience and in education field, making opportunity chasm between urban cities and rural towns wider.
On top of that, a small town should be left for refreshing. Big cities are busy, congested, and volatile. Everything changes very fast in big cities and residents need to adapt on this circumstance. This hectic atmosphere makes people easily exhausted and they need a place to take a rest. Somewhere new, tropical, fresh, and unfamiliar with. Countryside is one of the best options to choose for tired people. But if we live in outskirts, a vast grass field or crystal green sea is just a daily scenery, therefore there is nothing new to recharge our energy. For example, my friend Tom who lives in a small town visited Seoul, capital of Korea, for a summer vacation. At first, he was excited to see skyscrapers and lots of cars. But soon he got disappointed by busyness of the city and went back to his town earlier than planned. On the other hand, I enjoyed my time in Gangwon where is famous for astonishing mountains and beautiful sea views. This obvious contrast shows that a rural town should be kept for a resting place.
To sum, more opportunities provided by size of the metropolises and keeping a countryside for last paradise clearly show my opinion on the given matter. In this regards, I prefer to live in a big city.