Some people prefer to live in a BIG CITY. Others prefer to live in a small town. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

I would prefer the big city. While I appreciate the thought of H.D. Thoreau, I demand much of myself and the small town, I’m sad to say, will not support that pursuit.

I want to excel. I want the finest education and the top schools of the Philippines are invariably in the city or in its outskirts. I want to eat well and live well, where I and when I want. The best restaurants and cultural centers are central to the city. I want to social service: the hospitals, the clinics, the police, the utility men, the transportations systems are again in the city.

No, I do not kid myself. I know that I pay a price for wanting these things conveniently. I have to suffer an unhealthy population density in the city because many want the same things I do. I have to pay for the things I expect and as a result, I have to work harder. I want the best so must be no slouch in what I offer back to the system.

Yet I am happy. As I have lived in the city for so long, I know how to keep myself relatively safe in the city. I am not subject to marauding bands of rebels nor need I worry about paying arbitrary ‘revoluntionary taxes’ for what I have toiled for. I am entertained by the latest movies, plays, and the most cutting-edge electronic devices our day has to offer.
Finally, I will have far reaching impact. It is likely I will move from the city to the rest of the world, as will my children, and their children’s children. I am a city person through and through.