Poll: who are you arguing with? Escapistatstics, part 1

[snappydog]

I'm a literature and philosophy student living in Cardiff and originally from Devon. In both cases I'm in suburban areas of the city I live in, and both are fairly large built-up cities surrounded by fields and moors and stuff so I'm never more than about a half-hour train ride from the rural arsehole of nowhere.

 

[bauke67]

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Another philosophy student here. Are we that many out here or are we just so eager to point it out?

Someone should make another poll to see if there's a high concentration of us on this site. If not, then yes, we're eager.

 

[War Penguin]

I'm a community college student [small](nonworking)[/small] studying music/music theory/liberal arts, because nothing else interests me at the moment. I live in Los Angeles and always have been since I was three or something. I don't think I can say that I'm anything but urban.

 

[EvilRoy]

Practicing civil engineer, with a bonus two years of fun that lets me look at slightly cooler stuff (but its all concrete and steel anyway). I marked 'urban' since although I live and work near to suburbs, my home is actually into the city a ways.

Reading some of these results has been kind of illuminating and surprising for me.

 

[geK0]

23 year old, recently graduated college (so non-student), currently living in an apartment complex (so urban)

 

[Happiness Assassin]

I guess I would go with student-rural. 19-year old mechanical engineering student who is regretting his major more and more with each passing day. I am also from the eastern part of Washington or the part of the state that most people try to forget even exists.

 

[A_Parked_Car]

I live in the middle of a city and currently attend university where I am working on my Master's degree in military history.

I would say the Escapist has a fair mix of people, though there is certainly a higher degree of civility and intelligence than the average internet forum. That is the only reason why I post here at all. Other website's forums are so toxic that I don't bother frequenting them.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

Physics Student in an urban/city-based university, though the campus seems much more sub-urban. I however elected for student/Sub-urban, because I don't live on campus or in the city, I instead take a ~45 minute train journey, every freaking day, from my village.

EDIT: Worth mentioning, 1st year of BSc programme, so I've still got a long way to go.

 

[Godhead]

Student at the University of Arizona in Tucson majoring in Astronomy. I also wear a wizard suit to the basketball and football games.

 

[dyre]

Lots of philosophy students on this site.

Student/ urban here. Towards the end of high school I briefly considered being English and Philosophy double major, but I ended up going with Finance and History. Because, you know, I don't want to be homeless after college. J/k, philosophy students are the most fun to talk to...most finance people I know are incredibly boring.

 

[Pink Gregory]

I'm a gardener.

But then again, I don't post much.

 

[JupiterBase]

I'm a high school drop out who went straight to work when i turned 18, i read quite a bit and try to stay up to date on my favorite subjects. I'm between jobs and thinking about going back to school. I live in a suburban part of Southern California.

 

[Eamar]

I'm a History student in a technically urban environment. But really, Oxford may count as a city but it's no metropolis

 

[144_v1legacy]

I'm a History student in a technically urban environment. But really, Oxford may count as a city but it's no metropolis

... I'd say suburban at best. Go to Google maps and search for Oxford, and then zoom out a bit. It's fields of green, not urban sprawl.

 

[Eamar]

I'm a History student in a technically urban environment. But really, Oxford may count as a city but it's no metropolis

... I'd say suburban at best. Go to Google maps and search for Oxford, and then zoom out a bit. It's fields of green, not urban sprawl.

Yes thank you, I am aware of the surroundings of the place where I live

A suburb is "an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one", while urban means "in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city."

Oxford is a city, albeit a small one.

 

[144_v1legacy]

I'm a History student in a technically urban environment. But really, Oxford may count as a city but it's no metropolis

... I'd say suburban at best. Go to Google maps and search for Oxford, and then zoom out a bit. It's fields of green, not urban sprawl.

Yes thank you, I am aware of the surroundings of the place where I live

A suburb is "an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one", while urban means "in, relating to, or characteristic of a town or city."

Oxford is a city, albeit a small one.

It's images like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/South_Park_Oxford_snow.jpg that throw me off. I suppose that the implications of the terms in this poll are subjective, so perhaps that could make good material for the next list. What scale city? Or perhaps, what level of inter-city or international interaction do you partake in?

 

[TallanKhan]

Urban Non-Student. I'm an HR professional working for a mid sized charity.

 

[Eamar]

It's images like this: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/South_Park_Oxford_snow.jpg that throw me off. I suppose that the implications of the terms in this poll are subjective, so perhaps that could make good material for the next list. What scale city? Or perhaps, what level of inter-city or international interaction do you partake in?

Yeah, it's all pretty subjective, so that's why I decided to just go with the dictionary definition. Too much of a headache otherwise

And actually, that park is still well within Oxford. It's a pretty green city with several large parks, plus a lot of the University colleges have large grounds and gardens.

 

[Something Amyss]

Who do you imagine behind the mask of anonymity as they fling passive-aggressive insults into you from the forums?

Usually tentacled aliens and lizard people.

I'm a college grad from (and living in) rural Vermont. Which is to say anywhere in Vermont.