Is life in a village or in a small town better than city life?

I guess I am not the correct person to answer this, but since you asked, here's my point of view. Village life is quite different from that of a small town or a big city. Education and pursuing dreams makes you move out of the village or town or city, well living standards is relative, some people feel comfortable living the humble life of a villager, some like it bustling with life, like in a big city. When you talk specifically about the life after retirement I guess moving on the outskirts of the town, would be a better option, not completely denying yourself the pleasure of city life, well it depends on what kind of lifestyle you are accustomed to.  For me, I am used to living in a big city and i like it when there is noise around me, but just sometimes I like retiring to a quiet place, for sometime, just to recuperate myself. Once you are accustomed to a certain lifestyle you like change for sometime but you tend to go back to the original lifestyle. Moreover, I guess to each his own. You are a better judge for what you want your life to be like after you retire.

Yes in Several aspects. No in Several other IMPORTANT aspects. A big YES when: 1. You Want PEACE.! 2. You Want Fresh Air. 3. You Want to see the greenery of villages. 4. You Want to see ton's of children's playing "Kanche"/Gilli Danda/Kabbaddi etc. together. Children's playing Kanche.! Credit: Google Children's playing Gilli Danda. Credit: Google 5. When you want to see how people helps their neighbor. 6. When you want to take joy of jumping to a pond/lake/canal/river.! Credit: Google 7. You want to see how people helps each other. Credit: Google 8. You want to see ho the Rice/Wheat crops grows (How good it looks while growing?) Which you eat everyday.! Credit: Google and OF COURSE no in several other IMPORTANT aspects. Hope every buddy knows this part. !

Urbanization has been for years the main trend around the world. Most people who were born in villages rush into modern cities. Obviously, there exist great differences between village lifestyle and city lifestyle. It’s hard to say which one is better. Neither of them is above the other.Living in a city often means higher salary, more opportunities, more commodity options, more education resources, better medical care, and so on. However, these things are gradually being available in villages nowadays. On the contrary, there are a lot of things only people who used to live in villages would understand. People that have never been to villages couldn’t get the real beauty of village lifestyle.1. You take fresh air everydayIf you haven’t lived in villages, you could not image how fresh the air is. There’s no automobile exhaust, drainage ditches, smelly waste… While you almost have to wear a breathing mask to go out in city life, you take fresh air every day from dawn to dark by living in villages.2. You can live a peaceful and quiet lifeThe city is always busy and noisy. There are a lot of vehicles and people in the road. Noises come from everywhere: traffic noises, industrial noises, construction building noises, and noises from your neighbors and living area. However, in villages, you never need to worry about these noises. You could get deep sleep at night and enjoy a quiet stroll at daytime.3. You eat fresh, green and clean vegetablesAll food needs to be purchased from supermarket or local malls if you live in a city. To eat fresh vegetables, you have to get up early and rush into the market. However, the situation is totally different if you live in villages. You could grow various kinds of vegetables by yourself. You control the fertilizing and pesticide to make sure the vegetables are green and clean.4. You spend less in villagesUndoubtedly, living costs in villages are much lower. The price of commodities is lower in villages than that of city lifestyle. That means to purchase the same quantity of a commodity, you spend less money in village lifestyle. Also, since there are less consumer options, you could make a big saving to keep your money stayed.5. You will never feel aloneMost people living in cities would have the same feeling: they’re surrounded by people only 10 meters away, but they feel alone. There’s little communication between neighbors, and friends may be tens of kilometers away. To kill loneliness, they watch movies online, play online games, go out for a short travel… However, while living in villages, you will never feel alone. Every morning you could say hi to your neighbors and you may live within only 20 feet away from your friends. You meet strangers everywhere in a city but the whole village is not strange to you at all.6. You do more physical exerciseWhile there are a lot of traffic tools that could save physical exercise in cities, life in villages can be very physical. Every activity in village life requires physical exercise, like working with the land, sowing seeds into the land, chopping and collecting wood for the winter, walking along old path, or going to a nearby shop. It is said that a thirty minutes active walk will tone your system for the next 4 hours, while village life produces more opportunities for you to do more than a thirty-minute active walk.7. You can embrace a beautiful night skyWith the industrial pollution, what you can see in city nights are only sparking lights from various houses, traffic lights, vehicle lights and street lamps, but not stars and moon on the sky. However, in village area, you could embrace a clean and beautiful night sky with thousands of stars twinkling. In a moonlit night, you could see far away from your house roof and everything is so clear and clean in your eyes.8. You’re not obsessed with trendsWhen you’re living in a city, you need to check whether your clothes are fashionable or not before you go out as others might laugh at you for being out of fashion. You might be easily driven by hot topics like stocks, gossips, Hollywood movies or stars, cars… even though you don’t like these things. But you would never get driven to these by your village friend circles. You could live as simple and freely as you like.9. You don’t have to worry about parkingIf you have a car, you will know how difficult it is to find a paid parking spot in crowded cities, not even to say a free parking spot! However, if you used to live in villages, you will know how easy it is to find a free and easy parking space. There’s no traffic police who writes a ticket and then mails it to you in villages for a roadside parking. There’s no traffic light and no traffic jam.10. You are safer in villagesThe huge pressure of city life makes a lot of people corrupted. There are lots of crimes in the city. Many thefts and murders often take place in the city. Meanwhile, there are much more vehicles in city, which results in frequent traffic accidents. While in villages, few traffic accidents happen. Another element that brings danger to you is epidemic disease, most of which extend from one city to another city. People living in cities are more vulnerable to many diseases because of the sedentary lifestyle and fast food intake. These things become less possible in villages.

Village is very different from city. Cities have many opportunities and villages has their own advantage. It completely depends on person to person and their needs. money should not be a deciding factor in this thing. I personally prefer village but with a purpose...it can be aupliftment of villagers or anything. Again it depends on person to person

Personally I would like to live in a small village after I retire or before that too when my kids are independent. I have spent entire my childhood in a very small village and truly speaking still my village comes in my dreams no matter how long and how good life I have in city. I have been living in city more than 10 years now and that too in 2 of the most crowed cities in India. Everything is nearby but still I feel some part of my life is missing and it’s my village. I feel totally relaxed, enthusiastic when I go to my village and spend some time. I enjoy city life too. There are all kind of facilities, hospitals, market places, malls, multiplex and big list in the cities but there is no nature touch to it. Cities only buzz but nature whispers which we can get only in villages. There is no fresh air, clean roads (villages are far more than clean in India compare to cities). Almost all major Cities in India are overcrowded, polluted, no control on traffic and there is no proper waste management. City welcomes everyone but you may find some restrictions in villages. Some of them are very rude or orthodox which if gets modernize would make villages very beautiful.

Hectic city life draining your energy always creates a love for village life. Adapting to village life after a event filled city life could be quite a challenge as boredom could set in due to limited activites in village unless you aggressively follow some agricultural activities. Life will be slow and pleasent in the beginning but monotony has to be dealt with. Needs would be less but dont take the city gadgets along as they would again make you feel the things you could get done in a jiffy in city. Post retirement yes a good option as long as health facilities are at comfortable distance.

It matters according to your choice... Both town and village have different views.. if you like to live under the greenery. if you want to enjoy the water from the well, if you want to see the perfect rituals,.. if you are addicted to the calm and cool nature you must prefer to live in a village perhaps if you want to enjoy the facilities latest technologies, want to live in 21st century lifestyle then your preference should be Town becoz now a days towns are being developed are transformed into cities.. so its your taste whether you want a lifestyle of village or a town...

Well, given a choice, I would definitely like to shift to a place that is calmer and quieter especially after retirement. Ofcourse, I will make sure that the basic amenities are being taken care off well but there is no harm in moving to country-side or smaller places because peace is the most important factor in life and what better than a small town or a village that has good connectivity to a city.Give it a thought!

Small towns and villages are better places for a retired life. You can easily keep in touch with people and you will never feel alone. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx