Where one chooses to live their life, or otherwise,'settle down', has a great effect on their life. It decides what kind of a life style one would have. Yet at the same time, people choose where they want to have their home depending on what they expect from their lives, and what they expect to achieve.

Those who have high professional expectations, and those who wish to achieve great financial improvement in their lives will opt for a city life. There, the city will provide more educational opportunities for an individual to become more qualified academically. This will eventually give them more and more opportunities to find employment where their dreams of honourable careers could be realised. When considering family, having a home in a town will provide the opportunity for children to have better educational facilities. Furthermore, living in a large town is of course a life of comfort. Therefore, people who find a great deal in materialistic comforts of urban life will deffinitely think a large city as an ideal place to build their "home – sweet home".

However, I disagree. I do not deny that people must have goals and expectations that they wish to accomplish in life. Without dreams, goals and challenges, life will indeed be extremely dull. Yet most of the time, it is not materialistic comforts, the amount of our monthly sallary, our high place in society, nor the higher connections in society which brings happiness into our lives. It is most often the simplicity of our life which renders a feeling of contentment, and peace and quiet to our lives.

This simplicity cannot be found in a large town. It is too complex with its hectic life. People do not have time for friendly interaction. They are always bussily running around; no time to treat a passer-by with a friendly smile; no time for a friendly chat.

Yet in a small town, situation is much different. Everybody knows everyone. They care. Whenever a neighbour is in need, their is the whole neighbourhood to help about. This feeling of security – that there will be someone there when you need them, makes life very easy for one.

It would be also necessary to talk about the environment one will be choosing depending on their choice of a small town home or a city home. In town, environmental pollution exists in excess. This is of course a cause of many illness among city people. Yet in a small town, there will be pure air to breath and more greenery to see. It will be consoling, compared to the pain of the heat and the concrete world in a city.

Not everyone would see the same way I do, yet I believe that If you want a simple life of calm and tranquility, a small town is the place to have your dream home.
