Into which of the categories would your marriage fit?

[Blessedfamily]

I'm just curious to see the mixtures. We are definitely city girl+country boy here.

Edited May 29, 2010 by Blessedfamily

[Parrothead]

Like Eloise I am a city child. Dh is the son of a farmer.

[bluemongoose]

I voted country boy/city girl because it was the closest to us. DH is def. a country boy. I am a mix. I have lived both places, but mostly the city. I fit better in the country environment though :). We live in the country now and are happy that way!

[Crissy]

Other. ;)

 

Suburb girl / country boy

[FaithManor]

Currently, two country folk.

 

We didn't start out that way - we were definitely city people in the early years of our marriage, several bad city experiences, one HOA, and astronomical property taxes, later....Country Folk.

 

Faith

[Orthodox6]

city + city -- but nothing "slicker" about it. (It is a derogatory term, if you don't know this !)

Edited May 29, 2010 by Orthodox6

[Tutor]

We both grew up suburbanites who were city people at heart, now we're country/ sustainable living people but we're looking forward to becoming city people (+ urban homesteading) again when the opportunity arises. We're "love where we are" kind of people. :001_smile:

[fivetails]

Voted 'other'...

 

military brat/small town girl + city-raised but small town at heart guy. :)

[Ravin]

I put country girl, but really I'm a small town girl. DH is definitely a city boy. I've adapted well enough to city life; we lived in my hometown for a year and a half and it drove him stir crazy, to say the least!

[SproutMamaK]

I have NO idea. Neither of us are really city or country. We're both... I dunno, think auto mechanic. :lol: We like getting our hands dirty to accomplish something tangible, and then cleaning up, putting on nice clothes, and doing something fun (like SHOPPING, lol). What does that make us? I think I'm gonna go with 'shabby chic'. ;)

[Renee in NC]

I said city girl/country boy, but that isn't right either.;) At least that isn't how we were raised, but it is how we turned out. Sort of.:D

[radiobrain]

I voted other....

 

big inner city girl (Chicago) / Tuscan Mountain village turned suburban boy living in a moderately sized inner city.

 

:001_huh:

[nono]

Two beach bums. One foreign. One domestic.

[Corraleno]

Born & raised: suburban girl & city boy (London)

 

When we met: city dwellers (LA)

 

Now: chicken-raising, horse-breeding, vegie-growing country bumpkins

 

Jackie

[dangermom]

I'm not really a country girl, but compared to my husband I am. He has never been to a county fair--we're taking him to his first one tomorrow. (Usually my mom and I take the kids. And he did go to the State Fair once, but that just isn't the same.)

[nukeswife]

I voted other.

 

I'm a suburb girl (not really city, but not really country either) I'm not sure what you'd call my dh, where he grew up in northern IA is surrounded by farms, but it's really like small town america. You can walk around the whole town in about 15 mintues. I think it has maybe 3 stop lights, but it's like a little town in the middle of corn country.

[Blessedfamily]

Two beach bums. One foreign. One domestic.

 

Lol. I thought I should have put suburbanites in the poll, but beach bums never occurred to me.

[Carrie12345]

We both grew up 100% suburban. Swing sets and gardens, but still close enough to hear the neighborhood kids getting yelled at when they did something wrong!

 

He lived in a wealthy 'burb for quite a few years. I grew up in a comparatively poor 'burb. That was enough culture clash for us! ;)

 

Today, we're wanna-be country folk. More me than him.

[Mommyfaithe]

We are 2 city slickers who moved to the country 24 years ago.....Can you sing the theme to Green Acres?? That is us!

~Faithe(who knows whenever there is a car accident down the road because our power goes out...and can finally get a pizza delivered and CABLE...and high speed internet...but only within the last year! WOOT!)

[Debora R]

We are a couple of Military Brats.....and he grew up to be a Military Man himself. As a Young Man, he was......unique.

[Cindyz]

city boy, city girl and now we have moved to 5 acres in the country together. Oh boy do we have a lot to learn!

[LizzyBee]

I checked country girl/city boy, because I grew up on a farm 5 miles outside a town of 251, and dh grew up in Baltimore.

 

But as adults, I prefer city living and he prefers the country. According to the facebook quiz, I am a city yuppie and he is a redneck. :D

[MamaSheep]

I voted country girl + city guy, but it would really be more accurate to say wilderness girl since I really don't know much about actual "country" life. My parents both grew up on farms, so I did learn how to milk a cow and gather eggs while visiting grandparents, but my dad was a researcher for the National Park Service and I grew up in the headquarters of Yellowstone Park. I know more about bison, elk, and coyotes than about cows and sheep and goats. Dh grew up on the outskirts of DC, though, and I think he definitely qualifies as a city boy. We live in a suburban "bedroom community" now, and that works out pretty well for us. I think he sometimes wishes for a few more nearby recreational venus, and I sometimes get antsy for space to just roam in, but there's a city to the north and a wilderness to the south so we can just hop in the car and go.

[Desert Rat]

I'm all city. My dh, while he's been in big cities most of his life, craves those wide open spaces and hunting and fishing. Poor guy.

[3lilreds in NC]

I am a country girl married to a city boy, but I think I am probably better off as a suburban girl. I would like to live in the country, but only when I have lots of friends I can go see! Otherwise I would get lonely. I loved growing up in the country but we had lots of family around. Here, where we have no family, I like to live around more people. And, although dh is a suburbanite, he is an Eagle Scout so he's better at lots of outdoorsy things than I am. :D

[RoughCollie]

DH and I were military brats growing up, then city slickers.

 

Now we are rural, living near a small town. It must be growing on me because when we went to a heavily settled suburban town last week, I felt boxed in by buildings and cars. It felt claustrophobic, which greatly surprised me.

 

I do not like living in a suburb, although I had to for 15 years. DH and I both prefer living in a large, vibrant city in which we don't *need* a car.

[cjbeach]

Big City girl + small city guy who moved to the biggest city but wanted nothing more than to be a beach bum.

So off came his suit.

Now we're both at the beach but my heart is in the city (he'd be happy to never take off his flip-flops).

[Aggie]

Country...both of us. Raised on small ranches, back to ranching now since dh retired from the military.

 

But I tell ya, some days I'm singing in my best Gabor accent, "New York is where I'd rather stay! I get allergic smelling hay!":D

[iammommy]

:001_smile:burb girl/city boy

 

Nan

[Melinda S in TX]

We were both raised city folk. Now, we're both country folk.

 

Melinda

[elegantlion]

Both children of suburbia. Large neighborhoods with lots of kids playing together at all hours of the day. We haven't quite found our balance yet.

 

In our hearts we're both beach bums, unfortunately there were no oceans in MO, where we both grew up.

[mommyofthree]

Other.

Island girl/ island,city boy

[Joker]

I voted country girl/city boy - but I think it should be country girl/beach boy. I grew up in small town TX on a farm. MY dh grew up in CA and was a surfer boy. He's shown me a love for the beach and I've shown him a love for gravy.:tongue_smilie:

[KidsHappen]

My hubby and I have both had portions of city and country in our upbringing. As adult we have gravitated towards the typical suburban lifestyle.

[Veritaserum]

I grew up in a big city and dh grew up in a small town (several hours away from any city). He hates the country and is glad that we live in a small city. :)

[Tree House Academy]

City girl (wannabe) and country boy. I was raised in the country, but always identified more with the city and longed to be there. When I grew up, I moved to a big city and loved it. My husband moved to a big city and hated it. Now we are back on the farm. This morning, as I was feeding chickens and slopping hogs, I was thinking just how far I have come. LOL

[Starr]

East Coast city boy, NW smaller town girl. We met in NYC which I loved and he moved me to a small rural college town. Who'd thunk it? :tongue_smilie:

[lionfamily1999]

I said country, but beach or water fowl would've been closer to the truth :p Neither of us could imagine living in a city, or away from the water :D

[coffeefreak]

I'm just curious to see the mixtures. We are definitely city girl+country boy here.

 

We have no clue. We voted other.

:D

[AuntieM]

Suburbanite / suburbanite

[Suzanne in ABQ]

We're two suburbanites, living in the country. It hasn't converted us though. We rarely go outside. But we have beautiful views!

[Violet Crown]

Two suburbanites (from the same suburb, actually) who couldn't get out of the 'burbs and into the city fast enough.

 

After all, "civitas" is the root of "civilization." :001_smile:

[Closeacademy]

I marked other.

 

My childhood was in the city/town but my teen years were in the country on a farm but my senior year we moved back to the city. I love living in a downtown area where I can walk everywhere.

 

My dh's childhood was in town but he always had access to the fields and forest and spent a lot of his pre-adult years hunting, fishing and trapping. So he is a bit of a mix too.

 

:001_smile:

[Urban Girl]

Other. Suburban girl/City boy.

[JFSinIL]

Suburban both.

[Hedgehogs4]

small-town girl and small-town / military boy.

[Sasharowan]

I was raised mostly in the city and he was mostly in the country, but now I prefer country and he prefers urban(mostly).

[Mom2J112903]

I would be at home in an apartment in the heart of D.C....DH on the other hand would go completly nuts. Actually where we are right now, is too much city for him. We live only 2 blocks from Helen Keller's Birthplace, it is a SMALL town yet historic, and it is too much city for DH.

 

I grew up in a large University city, and only a mile from the Mountaineer Football Stadium. DH, lived 30 minutes away on the "mountain" pretty much his whole life. NO ONE ever expected us to date, none-the-less get married we were and in some aspects, still very different.

[gpsings]

City slickers, but I would definitely be open to a more countrified existence....He, on the other hand, is an indoor boy. ;) :D

[3peasinapod]

I was born country, DH was born city, but we both long to be in the country now (which we aren't).