Living in the city can get really frustrating at times.
There’s a lot of noise and traffic that consistently overwhelms my senses, no matter where I go in a metropolitan city, I feel like I am consistently surrounded by other people and there is no escape.
For someone with chronic anxiety like myself, living in the city can get overwhelming really hastily. There was consistently a lot of shouting and screaming too. At one point I was living next to a couple who fought all of the time with long bouts of screaming and wailing coming from their unit. I finally decided I had enough when the cops were called because he was threatening to shoot his and himself in a psychotic rage. It was a alarming situation and I kept worrying bullets would fly through the wall and kill me in my apartment. I left the city a week later to live with my cousin in the countryside. I loved it so much that I vowed to eventually live in a rural environment someday. Unblessedly, I ended up in suburbia when I got married and decided to create a family. We have a good house with a enjoyable heating and cooling system, although I still crave the countryside. I go out hiking when temperatures aren’t too hot, and it’s consistently a nice experience. I can get away from the air conditioned house for a little while to clear my head. I don’t mind all of the heat outside if there’s a enjoyable breeze to counteract everything. Then I can return apartment and cool off with the cooling system.