We each have our preferences as is logical and We each choose what we consider best for our circumstances, our tastes and our desires.
I could not tell you about the differences between living with your family in the center of the city or living on the periphery because I have not lived with my family (and I currently live ...) more than in one of the two environments and I am of those rare warnings that They only talk about what they know or what they can learn, so: I informed myself.
This is a real conversation between women and mothers who have decided on the ideal environment to develop their family life, the pros and cons of living in the city against the pros and cons of living in a more or less small municipality on the periphery. Do you also tell us yours?
Lorena and his partner have a baby, they live in the center and their motives are clear
“I have public transportation at the door, I have more shops and facilities and I don't have to depend on the car for many things. My neighborhood has parks, there are cabbages or guardes and in the civic center they organize little things. I like that my son knows the door of his house and that the places are walking. "
Sonia and her partner has a girl and in some places clearly coincides with the same pros Lorena pointed out of living in the city center
“You have the cultural, leisure offer and many more possibilities to enjoy with your family than if you live outside the city. The public transport network takes you anywhere in a moment, you have everything at hand or only a couple of metro stations. I am also lucky to live right in the center and in my neighborhood there is an important endowment of schools, institutes and health centers. "
Eve She is also the mother of a girl and lives with her and her partner in the center of a large city, as in the case of Sonia and Lorena, the three live in Madrid capital
“More or less what Sonia says about living in the center also applies to me. With the advantage that I am surrounded by parks. Come on, I live like the Marquis! ”
Leisure and culture against noise and pollution
Sonia He also lived in a city on the periphery before forming a family and the theme of the parks believes that it is one of the points where the city center cannot compete with small or medium-sized peripheral cities.
“On the periphery you have much more tranquility, the culture and leisure offer although it is smaller, many times it is free thanks to small town halls, not like in Madrid where the public offer is usually scarce or non-existent and you have to look for life paying or trying to go to free private initiatives. And above all you have many more parks and free areas where children can play. That in the center of Madrid today is unthinkable. ”
Another mom is also called Lorena and that as Sonia has a girl, she lives with her daughter and her partner in a municipality on the periphery and also appreciates the pros and cons of it
“I the opposite of them. I depend on the car, I don't have a cultural offer but I have more parks, more schools and less pollution. ”
These points are coincident in all of them as some of the cons of living in the city: dirt, pollution, traffic, noise ...
"Yes, there is more dirt, more noise and more traffic."
"Pollution in all its parameters: atmospheric, auditory, light ..."
But they are still happy with their choice and do not have in mind to change it ...
“I don't move even with hot water”
“We chose it before having children, for us, life in the municipalities of Madrid seemed boring to us. Being a mother, I wondered if this was the best place to have my daughter and I think the decision was correct. She has a much better time having more leisure and free time near home than when she goes home to her grandparents who live in a municipality in the south of the community. ”
Marisa He has two children, older than those of all others, and has lived for years with his partner and children in his neighborhood in the center of the city of a lifetime. Obviously, the approaches adapt when the children grow and the needs change.
“The problem is not your car, it is the car that your children will need when they go to partying to the other side of Madrid. For me the important thing when choosing is the proximity to the important. I wanted children, I need the family to help me out and now the tables have been changed and it is the family that needs me. We live near a park, there are a thousand buses three minutes away, there are no noises, the hospital is fifteen minutes away on foot, I have five schools a five minute walk away when they go alone and in four of them they can do high school. ”
Barbra She is the mother of three children and lives with her family in a municipality on the outskirts of the city
“I almost see only pros for living on the periphery, especially with children. It seems to me that it is like a holiday site, with green areas, tranquility ... I also have schools on foot and by car, leisure of all kinds and several shopping centers that take me five minutes to reach by car. Living in an urbanization with a pool and gardens like mine in the center is impossible. I don't know, I would not live in the center with my family. From where I live I plant myself in the center of Madrid in twenty minutes. My children, I suppose they will move by bus through the neighborhood and go to the burguer, to the cinema, to the bowling alley,… Yes, if my partner and I were about “twenty-something” without children, I would consider living in downtown Madrid. ”
Well, you see, there is no single truth as there is no single reality.
Each, each person, each family tries to always do what they deem most appropriate and above all more beneficial for their family, this city or periphery is another personal decision that we have to make based on what we consider best for our children and For us, don't you think?
And you by what option do you choose, city center or municipality on the periphery?
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