mayorhaggar
Joined: 01 Jan 2013
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 Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2013 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: What is considered rural? - population wise |
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| Weigookin74 wrote: |
Wow! I've been to and visited rural areas. They were nothing like that. Take any good job for the first year and go with the flow. But, I will say, I experienced lots of irritation mixed with a honey moon feeling in my rural area first year. But, ideally a city of 250,000 and up is probably ideal. My town had 90,000 but felt like a town of 9,000 back in Canada. (In Asia, take off a 0 to get an equivelant to back home.) |
Lol, my town in rural Chungbuk is like 20 to 30,000 but it feels like a city of 100,000 or so in the US, because it has a bunch of narrow streets packed with shops and there's a few old-fashioned markets...there's usually a lot of foot traffic but especially when it's a market day, like on Monday. Also there's several tall apartment buildings, like where I live. A city of 100,000 or so in the US would be very sprawly and spread out and suburban and wouldn't feel so dense. This Korean town is nice because it feels busy and there's everything I really need, but I can't deny it's pretty isolated from the rest of the country.
But on Mondays I teach in a small village out in the sticks, and it's definitely ruuuuuural...there's basically nothing there but the school and a few run-down shops. |
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