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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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 Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 11:19 am Post subject: coming from a small place to live in Seoul how to adapt? |
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| This is for people who like me come from a small regions within there home country. The pop. of my province is 140,000 people so its pretty small . I was wondering how people adapted going to a city like Seoul where they actually have public transit etc? (PEI's capital city is small enough that youc an walk everywheres if need be) I have been in different cities across Canada and the US but never lived in one for any amount of time. |
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chinook
Joined: 17 Mar 2004
Location: canada
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 11:25 am Post subject: |
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| I would say that depends on whether you liked living in a smaller city or not. I grew up in a very small town and hated it, so big cities are my idea of heaven. Granted, I've never lived anywhere as big as Seoul. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 11:32 am Post subject: |
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| sometimes i like it, i mean you walk down the street in the capital city with a pop of 40,000 and you know people and stop and talk other times it annoys me to death that everybody knows your business etc, but ultimately i am going to Seoul because i want to experience that big city life for once and see if I like it. |
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Derrek
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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I think you'll enjoy it, but the bumping, pushing, and rudeness will get to you.
My original home town has 40,000 people, and my last city had about 1 million, but spread out over an area similar in size to Seoul. |
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kylehawkins2000
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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| I come from a village of 500 and I haven't found it to be a big deal. There are alot of benefits to living in a big city. Enjoy them! |
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Crois
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: You could be next so watch out.
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Just bring alot of condoms. Apparently (so someone told me) if you are young and horney go to Seoul. |
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royjones
Joined: 26 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Hey, I am from N.B, been here in Korea, about 4 weeks and am loving it. I am sure you wont have a hard time adjusting PEIGUY |
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ryleeys
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Columbia, MD
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| Posted: Fri May 28, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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| My hometown in America is about 200 people. I came here and moved to Icheon, a city of some 150,000. And actually, didn't have any culture shock. I went through my culture shock moving from small town to my college (40,000 students). So that prepared me for here I guess. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| kylehawkins2000 wrote: |
| I come from a village of 500 and I haven't found it to be a big deal. There are alot of benefits to living in a big city. Enjoy them! |
from what i have read, there are lots of things to do and see. I think it might overwhelm me a bit at first, but i am certainly looking forward to actually living in a "city" in my area where i live ( in the rural part of PEI which is pretty much everywheres) there is prob only about 60 people if that who live on my road prob less than that.. |
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ryleeys
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: Columbia, MD
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| Posted: Sat May 29, 2004 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, that live on my road???
Umm... 36.
But then again, my road isn't paved and it's the largest community in my town. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Sun May 30, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| ryleeys wrote: |
Oh, that live on my road???
Umm... 36.
But then again, my road isn't paved and it's the largest community in my town. |
I think you were worse off than me! lol, my road is at least paved but my road consists mainly of retired people and farms.. i think it's going to be amazing taking in the sights that Seoul has, and the vast size of it... sure as hell beats a province with one university a capital city of 40,000 with no public transportation to speak of... |
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Thumperaven
Joined: 18 May 2004
Location: Yangjae
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Just gotta say I LOVE your Avatar - Go Flames! bring the cup back north of the 49th where it belongs!!!!!!  |
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uber1024
Joined: 28 Jul 2003
Location: New York City
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| Posted: Tue Jun 01, 2004 7:49 pm Post subject: Re: coming from a small place to live in Seoul how to adapt? |
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| PEIGUY wrote: |
| This is for people who like me come from a small regions within there home country. The pop. of my province is 140,000 people so its pretty small . I was wondering how people adapted going to a city like Seoul where they actually have public transit etc? (PEI's capital city is small enough that youc an walk everywheres if need be) I have been in different cities across Canada and the US but never lived in one for any amount of time. |
There are just people that are equipped for big city life. I'm one of them. My hometown has about 5,000 people and then I moved to New York City for a couple of years and loved it. Now I'm in Seoul and I still feel comfortable. The key is just to connect with the area ... make friends as quickly as you can. |
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