Proximity to City Quotes

I'm happy living in the countryside. We are 30 minutes away from Milan, so I can drive in for dinner and drive out. It's not a question of living in the country or in the city, it's really a question of living in a tight, close-knit clan that makes the difference.

I live in New York City, but I live in Hoboken because it's cheaper there, and I can own a condo.

To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.

Surprisingly, Manhattan casts a sort of undersized shadow onto Long Island. Where I grew up, everyone seemed totally disconnected from the city - ours could have been any suburb, anywhere - though when traffic was thin, it took us only half an hour to get into midtown.

I grew up in a town called Prairie View. It's like 45 minutes outside of Houston.

Suburbia is too close to the country to have anything real to do and too close to the city to admit you have nothing real to do.

I grew up in Lake Orion, Mich. What was best about Lake Orion where, where we grew up was it was a suburb of Detroit but had a lot of open space around.

I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household.