Hey Asian people,warm greetings from me Arveno. I haven't written in a long time due the holiday. But, here i am coming back to writing again. This time i am writing about worry about Urban Living and Rural Living since i have experienced live in both place. Right now i am living in big city in Surabaya, Indonesia. Maybe many of you did not know about Indonesia. Maybe next time i will write about Indonesia in another content. But, in this content i want to share my experience about living in Rural area first. I am growing up in Rural Area in Malang city. Although i can say that my place is city but still there is many place that still having forest and green side in this city. Many places we cannot going to because we need to walk and cannot access by motorcycle or cars.
Mostly in Malang city there is highland area, this place near to the mountain than the sea. But, still in this city we can going to coastal area in south. I already been to both side,not all but someplace. And this place are having great view and vibes.
I think,Malang city is good place for living. The Air quality is still good and the weather is still cool and sometimes cold. The view is really good and the living cost is tends to be cheaper. But, the problem is in this city. It is very hard to get money especially when talk about enterpreunership. I am used to be opening some business in this city. But, mostly i am going to bankcrupt due the low traffic of income. The business is not really die but the cashflow cannot follow my expenses at that time especially when i am having a kid.
However, living in place like this seems like everyday is holiday. Yeah maybe this city is really good for holiday. I dont know why but when i am on holiday back to my hometown, time feels different. In my hometown feels like slower than in big city. I can breathing and not rushed and pressing by time. Thats why i am very loved back to my hometown at holiday. Not only that as i grew up there, i miss my friends. My best friends still lives there.
And talking about mountain area. Of course in this city there are many of hidden waterfalls inside the forest. Like this example, i am going there before me and my wife married. It likes 8 or 9 years ago. This place called Coban Pitu because if we count the big waterfall, there are 7 main waterfall there and the rest is just little waterfall. This waterfall is really beautifull, and very cold while being there. Me and my wife cannot playing inside the waterfall because i am using all my clothes back then due the sweat while we are walking towards the waterfall. And my wife did not bring any clothes in her backpack, just water supply,snacks and some medicine in there.But, really it is worth it to see the magnificent of the beauty of nature in this place.
And when talking about coastal area. Malang city also has beach that really beautiful and i can say that hidden gem for holiday.I dont know for right now but 8-9 years ago, this beach is really quite. Not many people around here even though its weekend.
The water is really clear and in this place not a lot of rubbish scattered around. I am very loved with this beach that known as Sendiki Beach in Malang city until i am using this place to be my pre wedding photo place.
I am very love with my pre wedding photo, the place, the vibe, and the picture taken in the right moment. Although all of us get sick and cold after the photo session. But, it is really worth it. I think both me and my wife still remember the proccess of the pre wedding than the wedding itself. I dont really remember the wedding day. At wedding day i am really confused with handling so many people at the same time and just feels tired at that time. Different with the pre wedding, i can enjoying the process and maybe it is in nature that make all of us enjoying it.
Okay after knowing how living in Rural area, lets talk about my experienced in Urban Area. Now, i am living in Surabaya city,2 hours car riding from Malang city. Not to far but yeah it still exhausting driving back every week.LOL.
Living in the one of the big city in my country is not bad either. Sometimes yeah bad but sometimes i think the opportunity to be getting cashflow and money it easier to reach than in my hometown. In this city, the money is flowing fast. Super fast i can say. The living expenses is far way bigger than in Malang city. But, yeah i can get money even though doing something simple like broker or realtor. Many people don't want to wasting their time to going one place to another place with himself since the distance in one place to another one place is kinda far and sometimes get stuck in traffic. Thats the gap that i can filling to get the money. I have some time and some mechanism or i can say system that can make me not work but i can delegation the work to someone else who need and still get the profit towards it. Also in big city i can get newest information and fastest information about the opportunity than in my hometown.
But, yeah living in the big city cannot enjoying the happy moment and cannot be slowing down or i can get leaving behind. And chasing the newest information and opportunity is such really hard especially after covid. The inflation and recession make really hard lately. But, as i can said there are many opportunity that we can pick under the ground even though we are super lazy to do something. It is really bullshit that living in the big city does not having any opportunity. And as i said before, living in the big city is like you are drowning and your feet got chained, we just can gasping and breathing a little then we are struggling again below the water. it is like vicious circle that can make our health really gnawed inside.
Talking about health. Not only the physique health that we need to take care.But, mental health is really need to be taken care if we are living in the big city. As i said before i am like drowning in the ocean with chain on my feet that just can gasping and breathing a little and cannot doing anything. That will make the mental really exhausted and make the soul very tired. When me and my wife need to heal our mental health,what can we do is just going to mall or place that having city lights. Yeah,it kinda help a little bit to relieve stress a little bit. But, it is not gives much effect like when i am in my hometown. The feels is really different. The time still going very fast in big city. Even though i am making daily plan,weekly plan,and monthly plan, my time is like running out in big city. Thats why i cannot enjoying living in the big city. Or maybe that what make many people having more anxiety living in the Urban Area than in Rural area.
However, i am still can live in present time to still present with my little family. I dont want my time going ends without being with them. I still enjoying having time with my wife and my son especially. We can going to carnaval or mall near my house and enjoying watching movies, or having good food,or we can buy and playing many toys in big cities.
Not just the bad ones, what i am loving living in the big city is people tend to be more selfish and taking care about himself than other people and it will give me space. I dont know why, but after i am marriage, almost my life loving being alone than going with so many people. Maybe it just my age that make me like that. I can enjoying 3-5 days alone in my home with just my wife and my son than going to crowded place. And sometimes going politeness is really killing me, i dont like much about politeness.
So guys, what do you think about living in Rural area or Urban area, maybe you have stories that want to tell, you can tell it in the comment section. Maybe we can share our though together. And, in the end i am choosing living in Urban area since for my age, i am still need opportunity to make cashflow and boosting the wealth in big city is kinda easier than in Rural Area at least for me. I dont know for some people,maybe they can starting business in Rural area and going big too. But, for me the more opportunities the better. And i can enjoying holiday at least twice a year in Rural Area as long as my parents still alive and my parents in law still alive too. We need to visiting them and bringing my kid to them right. So, thats my content, sorry if my grammar is not good, i am hoping that you guys can enjoying my content. Warm Regards from me,Arveno.
