Question

[Ánh Dương Hoàng Vũ]

Describe and compare city and village lifestyles.

Answer 1

[Trần Võ Lam Thuyên]

It has been heard for ages that the lifestyle varies between a city and village. Definitely there is a great difference in the lifestyle among people living in villages and cities. Neither of them is above one another, but definitely has their own advantages and disadvantages.

It is considered that life in a city is almost equal to heaven and is wonderful and enjoyable. The reason behind such kind of thinking or feeling is only because, cities get expanded and more opportunities are made available for the people flooding in. New ventures, experiments and socializing happen in cities. The doors for each opportunity are more open in cities when compared to villages and therefore the facilities and comfort would be different from what you may find in villages.

Cities provide great facilities for education, medical treatments, job opportunities etc. which makes life more settled and takes it to the next level. The life led in a city is more enjoyable with the kind of amenities made available there.

However things are different in villages. Though the lifestyle is not as advanced as what you see in the cities, the culture and attitude of people are more warm and welcoming. They are more considerate and know each other in the village.

For any need or help you could definitely rely on your neighbors at any hour of the day. They are more friendly and more onto the traditional kind of practices and believes and are not gadget or tech savvy people. For them, the daily need to be met is itself taken as an enjoyment and all their works are dived and shared and helped by each other.

When coming to the kind of food habits that people of both these places follow; people living in cities are more vulnerable to many diseases because of their sedentary lifestyle and fast food intake. With inappropriate exercising and large intake of fast food, the fast moving crowd compromises on their health which would have to be heavily paid off later in life. However, in villages, people stick to the old homemade food habits and since transportation is still to be up to the mark, a lot of exercising happens and this helps them to remain fit and healthy in the long run.

Coming to the health of people in regard with pollution. Since cities are heavily populated and each member having vehicles, the amount of pollution is extremely high in cities and this has led to great amount of pollution and allergic diseases, even in small kids.

However, in villages the question of pollution does not come up to that level of what it is there in cities and hence fresher and less polluted air is available, which is good for both health and mind. People are more systematic and scheduled and get their work done by themselves rather than calling up or outsourcing the day to day household chores.

For more expansion and growth, one has definitely be at the cities as they have more opportunities that would help one grow professionally. However, to understand the moral values and culture of a state or a place, you definitely need to spent some part of your life in a village and also to enjoy and understand the beauty of nature in all its true colors and aspects. City life is mostly preferred by the youth and youngsters who love to be trendy, energetic and open to changes, while village life is opted by the elderly group who wish to have a peaceful life.

Answer 2

[Trần Võ Lam Thuyên]

If there are a few houses in a place it is called a village. A village is far from crowded towns and cities. Village life is peaceful and out of pollution. There is not more density. In a village, the environment is fresh and suitable to live. In a village, people are kind, benevolent, generous, obedient and simple. Rural people spend their life by working hard. They believe in hard working. They don't spend time without any work. They don't know how to make exploitation and corruption to others. Village are out of pollution, drugging corrupted persons and vandalism. Rural people eat fresh food need artificial medicine. They have folk culture. They are preserving folk songs, dances and culture. Villagers are preserving traditions, customs, hopes and aspirations.

On the other hand, village is always backward for development. There are no roads, sufficient educational institutes and medical centers. This means there are no campuses and higher educational sectors. If somebody is ill, he can die because of the lack of medicine. Villagers are barbarous, uneducated and wild. They don't have awareness. Villagers don't provide education to their daughters. The life of village women is hard and difficult. Most of the villagers are in the shadow of modern world. They are spending their life in darkness. They have to go to the cities to get job, education and other things. Most of the villagers are poor and they have to struggle for feeding the family members.

On the other hand, urban people have more facilities. If there are more houses, streets and crowds, it is called a city or town. A great and improved town is called a city. People's life is comfortable in the cities. There are roads, transport, communication etc. in the city. People don't have to walk on foot and they don't have to carry heavy loads on the back. Urban people are educated, forward, sensitive and civilized, they are not wild as the villagers. Urban children have learned how to speak, how to eat and how to behave with elders well, they are not uncivilized. They take their education in boarding schools and English medium schools so they are very forward. If somebody is sick, he gets medical treatment as medicine and doctors. Urban people seem always neat and clean. They seem smart and happy.

There are some defects in the city. City life is always crowed. Because of the modernism and population growth, urban life is destroyed by pollution. People throw rubbish any where so that we have sound pollution, air pollution, water pollution etc. In a city, there are more vehicles so the air is polluted by the fumes. Urban people have forgotten Nepalese civilization, culture and tradition. They are improving western fashion, behavior and culture. We are destroying our style, language, and traditions. City people are humbugs, tyrant, dishonest, corrupted and unkind. They think only how to earn money. Urban boys wear earrings, keeps forelocks and show their bad behaviors. Some of them suffer their parents, neighbor and relatives. Urban people are sick because of pollution. City life is noisy and limit so that people are also limit mind. They are greedy and selfish. In this way both city life and village life can have merits and demerits.