Trust me I know. I play hell getting my family to come up here to visit. You can see them visibly start to stress out at the thought of navigating city traffic and Columbus isn't exactly like driving in Chicago. The population density in many large cities in America isn't that much more than most small towns. LA and Atlanta for example. They just go on forever but are not that densely populated.
I can live in either environment as they both have their advantages and disadvantages...which would probably explain why I live in the Burbs. Most of the advantages of both and less of the disadvantages.
But the fact that I do live in Columbus, which I moved to primarily for employment opportunities, has had a significantly unfortunate negative impact on my relationship with my family, as most of my family live not to far away in rural Ohio but never come here to visit me and I always have to travel to see them and that has gone on so long that I've grown to resent it. My wife really, really, really dislikes American rural communities, not because she doesn't like rural life. Hell she grew up on a farm but because American rural life can be incredibly insular and you are either a part of the community or you are a "non-existent non-entity that people are duly polite to than completely ignore since you're not one of them" so she HATES IT when I make plans to visit my rural relatives.
It's the exact opposite of rural life in Asia where rural social structures are very communal and hospitable. I've explained to her why American rural life is so insular and she gets it....but she still doesn't like going there and being treated like an outsider. Which doesn't bother me in the least. As I've explained to my wife...that's a two way street.
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