Any city slickers here..

[XxWINxX94]

Suburbs of Chicago here, getting away ASAP.

 

[xfyrfiter]

Very small community in NW NM, less than 150 year round. The third best fishing in the US is less than a mile from my front door. I can drive a couple of miles and shoot all i want and have a mile or more of clear range. The backstop is 1200 feet of vertical sandstone. I really despise going to town, but it is sometimes necessary.

 

[dmancornell]

Grew up in Hong Kong. No guns, too many people. Not going back.

 

[JoelSteinbach]

I lived in NYC most of my life, I was even fortunate enough to obtain a hand gun permit, Per capita NYC seems less violent than my new home of Chattanooga, TN.

 

[GambJoe]

Born in NYC. Not there any more.

 

[Carl Levitian]

[I lived in NYC most of my life, I was even fortunate enough to obtain a hand gun permit, Per capita NYC seems less violent than my new home of Chattanooga, TN.]


It probably was, Joel.

Aside from the fact that NYC gets a bum rap in crime, I had the same experience in Colorado when I lived there in the mid 70's. I've lived in small towns here and there, but always returned to the big city. Neither myself or anyone I know has come to any harm here in the big city, but living in Trinidad Colorado, and Waynesville Mo., I had friends that were involved with violent crime. Now as a retired old fart, the wife and I spend one weekend a month in NYC just for the shows, museums, resturaunts, and sight seeing. I'd rather go to NYC for a weekend than go to Trinidad Colorado again. Besides, it's nice being where if you can't sleep, there's something always going on, even at 4AM. Some little Bistro for a drink, or something.

Carl.

 

[NMGonzo]

I live in the Metropolis of Albuquerque.

Small town is a state of mind.

 

[doc2rn]

Raised in wide open Kansas, now stuck in Cleveland

 

[Felix1]

I live in a rural area although it's not too far to a town of ~30k.

 

[thorn726]

from LI suburbs but was often in NY city, live in Berkeley which is like Brooklyn, very urban/ within 10 miles of SF and Oakland so more or less a city person. (being from LI NY is a big part of why CA gun laws don't seem so rough to me)

 

[double bogey]

Living in a medium (100K) suburb, of a large city, and a larger metroplex.

Lots of highroaders from the metroplex.

 

[THE DARK KNIGHT]

For those putting down various areas: Home is where you make it. I love guns and the RKBA is very important to me, but I also enjoy where I live a lot, despite it having crappy gun laws.

Yes, I like living in NJ. It's a very diverse state with tons of stuff to do, be it the city life, endless suburbs, the farms, the shore, or the mountains that make you say "wait, I'm not in PA?". In my life I have gotten to meet people of all walks of life and all ethnicities and experience things that people in most parts of the country simply never would in their area. I don't know a whole lot of places out there where the party starts at 1am. I've lived here all my life and I can tell you, gun laws do not simply make somewhere a good place to live.

As a few have said, there are plenty of downsides to just about any part of the country, or the world, and just because a certain place lets you carry a gun around doesn't make that somehow better than anywhere else, or even make it any safer. I assure you, take a trip to NYC sometime and see the sights. Chances are, you'll have so much fun you won't even be concerned with where your gun is.

 

[DeathByCactus]

Downtown Houston here...