自测：城里人或乡下人

Guest Post: by ‘Be Informed’Most survival minded people consider living away from any metropolitan or urban area as what will be necessary to make it through the expected upcoming chaos. Others feel nothing is going to occur, or whatever does happen will be manageable in or around major cities. In either case it is an individual’s choice and preference where they choose to live.To better aid someone in making that decision, this simple test should help someone to decide whether they are better suited for the urban suburbia city setting or a rural country type way of life. Generalizations of suburbia and city living:Place a check mark on each of the following positive aspects of suburbia or urban style life that are important to you. If it does not mean much or matter to you then leave it blank.[ ] Career opportunity and advancements usually good to those in demand.[ ] Access to the more advanced and best medical needs.[ ] Availability of most or all goods needed, plenty of shopping.[ ] Entertainment, lots of things to do and places to go to.[ ] Public transportation (buses, trains, airports, etc.) to get around.[ ] Many different people to interact with, high social life type.[ ] Better education and training (colleges, tech training).[ ] Opportunities that are more available to someone starting a small business.[ ] First to receive help after disasters because of size and importance.[ ] Usually more tolerant of unusual behavior and life styles, melding into the crowd, your private business stays more private.Add up how many of the 10 you checked and score one point for each.Score_____. Now place a check mark on each of the following negative aspects of suburbia or urban style life that are important to you. If it does not mean much or matter to you then leave it blank.[ ] High level of competition for really good job positions.[ ] Air pollution, congestion, crowded, boxed in feeling.[ ] Crime element and rate higher, suffocating laws, especially on self defense.[ ] High dependence on city continuing to function.[ ] Target for terrorism and or other enemy attacks.[ ] Normally higher cost of living; insurance, rent, utilities, etc.[ ] Faster life styles can be stressful and tiring.[ ] Likely to be the one of the first to experience the effects of any national crisis, also difficult to get out to safety.[ ] Lack of nature and outdoors, light pollution, concrete jungle feeling.[ ] More of an indifference of people looking out for one another.Add up how many of the 10 you checked and score one point for each.Score_____. Now subtract your negative score from the positive score.Total score______.This is your suburbia urban living score. Scoring range is from 10 to -10. Generalizations of rural country living.Place a check mark on each of the following positive aspects of rural country style life that are important to you. If it does not mean much or matter to you then leave it blank.[ ] Normally very clean air and clean environment, healthier.[ ] Wild food readily there for use.[ ] Darkness at night and quiet and peaceful.[ ] A type of freer feeling.[ ] Most of the time, a less expensive cost of living.[ ] Nature, wide open space and lots of outdoor activities.[ ] Safer from riots, large number of desperate people if society collapses.[ ] Small town helping your neighbors mentality.[ ] Crime not usually very wide spread or violent, safer to go outside.[ ] Normally more relaxed laws, more tolerant of very minor infractions.Add up how many of the 10 you checked and score one point for each.Score_____. Now place a check mark on each of the following negative aspects of rural country style life that are important you. If it doesn’t mean much or matter to you then leave it blank.[ ] Long commutes to get certain type of food and supplies and to get help.[ ] Sparsely populated, lack of much specialized services.[ ] Boredom, nothing to do.[ ] Everyone around you usually knows your business, privacy can be an issue.[ ] People can be very clanish to new comers that are not long term residents.[ ] Complacency and lack of motivation of people around you.[ ] Road maintenance, weather a problem, could be stuck unable to go anywhere.[ ] Normally more work to keep up property.[ ] Lack of common things that people are use to, home delivery of things such as pizza, shopping nearby, malls, etc.[ ] Interruptions of important services to you more common, cell phone communications, utilities and delays in repair work being done.Add up how many of the 10 you checked and score one point for each.Score_____.Now subtract your negative score from your positive score.Total score______.This is your rural country living score. Scoring range is from 10 to -10. The better score of the urban and rural living results is where you are probably better off to live at.There are many other aspects of urban and rural living that someone can add to this test that are equally important to them. This is just a broad sweep of some of the generalizations of both urban and rural living that should help someone decide which is better for them.