Metro areas aren’t for me. I live in a small city of 10,000 and that suits me fine. I enjoy visiting Milwaukee occasionally, still have relatives not far from there out in the country. Even have a nephew in Chicago on the near-north side. But I’ll not go back there. I’ll see him when he returns home for visits.
Living in the cities isn’t for either. When in the Milwaukee area, I lived in Fox Point, about 10 miles north of downtown Milwaukee, and a 4 or 5 minute bike ride to the country. Now I live in far southwest Knox County on about 2 wooded acres and not within the limits of any city. I’ve always believed in working in the city and living in the country, where I do now with two big dogs and the guns I owned before that Terrible Boating Accident where I lost all of the guns.
I live in a metropolis of about 150.