Druidry; City or Country

[Corwen]

Druidry is wherever you are. My personal choice though is not to live in town, my senses get too jangled, but I understand some people like towns.

[Tynan Elder Oak]

How I would love to be back in the country side..... but some of us have no choice and live where life takes us. For me that is a small town in Warwickshire. However it is not too far from my lovely hills and tress and streams... and my garden is full of trees and bushes and bird song.

[Golden Eagle]

I'm a country mouse 100%

Grew up in a village at the foot of the south downs, I love that area of Sussex so much. The rolling countryside, the woodland, the sea, the views from the top of the downs... Going off to uni was a nightmare which got worse year by year - I really struggled to cope with living in a city, especially while trying to explore my pagan side at the time. I felt so out of place and claustrophobic. It was too crowded and noisy and busy. I missed the woods and could never see enough sky.

Have now moved to Oxfordshire. It's not the nicest of towns, but it's surrounded by beautiful countryside which is easy to get to, great for going out on the bikes, and our house has a little garden which is my own personal sanctuary. The area is full of history and I'm quickly developing a great 'feel' for it.

[Aitrus]

I'm like Jake in that I grew up in the middle of the woods. Nearest neighbor was over a mile away. Outhouse was 100 ft. to the left out the back door. You never went there without grabbing the gun belt that hung on the peg by that back door. My father had a nasty run-in with a brown bear one morning, and we installed the peg that same day. Solar panel and diesel generator to charge up the batteries on the off chance we wanted to watch the TV and VCR, or listen to the radio. I learned to read and do math by keresene lamp light.

I have been to New York, DC, Houston, LA, Orlando, Providence, Seattle, Monterrey in Mexico and many more during my military career. I can't say that I ever completely enjoyed the city scene. All that humanity just gives me the heebee-jeebees. I get nervous and constantly look over my shoulder.

I live in a suburb outside Spokane, Wa. It's a quiet little place. Spokane is a small city, and I like it's style. Not too busy, not too boring. Fields and farmlands to the west for 100 miles, Rocky Mountains an hour to the East, excellent camping two hours to the North, farmlands and orchards 2 hours to the South. There's a variety of all these in my immediate area.

I'm not overly fond of farmlands. I guess you could call me more of a forest mouse or something like it. I like to live where there are trees and not a lot of people, with only a small community nearby and a decent sized city within an hour or so.

[Tyriell_Whisperwind]

im lucky to live in both and i think the key is balance, i live in suburbia but have family and spent many years in rural places and loved them both. you begin to have an different view and appreciate them both more for what they are

[John T. Folden]

I'm sort of in-between I guess. I hate large cities with a passion uncontested, hate seeing miles and miles of highway, as well. However, I have no real desire to live on a farm whatsoever. I wouldn't mind living in the country, depending on the house but I like my modern amenities (like my Mac and my AC when it tops 90F here in the summer!) and I like being close to civilization.

The city I live in now is around 60,000 people. It's a tad larger than I would like, actually, but there's still a lot of greenery in town. In fact, I think my town was the first in Ohio to get on the "Tree City USA" listing. I, also, have a rather nice sized yard for being near down town and have planted 4 oak trees here (1 Scarlet Oak and 3 Burr Oaks, including a crazy one that just won't grow straight. lol )

I hear a lot of people talk about "getting out of the city and back to nature" but, imo, the city is just as much a part of "nature" as anything else... If a wasp builds a nest or a beaver builds a dam, it's commonly considered nature. If man is a part of nature then the structures we build are, also, a part of it. I think realizing this is one of the ways to really find balance in the world and it makes it all the more apparent that we need to be more environmentally friendly as we continue to build our own "nests."

[SammyS]

saphera... that sounds gorgeous!!!! mind if i ask where you are?

I guess with City or country its really more about where you are internally than externally. I grew up in the suburbia of sydney luckly, though, i had many trees around and i'm an avid sailor so i was out on the water every weekend for about 7 years growing up. In holidays we would visit my grandparents down south in a country town and just adore getting to 'get lost' on friends propertise where i'd just have to sit by trees and greenery in the middle of nowhere for a while. Having a farmer for a grandfather i was very lucky to grow up with a respect and love of nature all my life.Being still new to all this i'm sure my views will change with time but at the moment i have to say that where you are shouldnt ever dictate your giving, just changes the nature of how you give. And there are so many parks and national parks around cities these days that if you do need to escape then there is usually a chance to get out of the hubub for at least one day
On another note, i'm definatly more of a country girl than a city... Hopefully maybe one day i'll even be a tuscan country girl
Sam