I didn't vote in this poll, as I am somewhere between the top 2 poll choices. The two posts above put everything in context for me.
I feel fortunate to have lived in a rural/farm area, and the 'Big City' (NW-N side of Chicago), and the suburbs. Each have their own positives, and each would suck (for me), without ready access to the other areas.
I love that we can make a day or weekend trip into the city and enjoy world class entertainment (the Chicago Symphony, Art Institute, museums, the vibrant City itself, etc).
I love that we can come home to a quiet, almost crime-free place to relax.
I love that we can travel 15 minutes in the other direction to real farms, or just a few minutes to deep forest preserves.
And if I lived in another area, I'm sure I would seek out the positives that it had to offer, and make the most of them. In a similar vein, I've been planning a trip with a friend (DW refuses to get in an airplane). We debated about this destination or that. I said that I pretty much didn't care, we would find a way to have fun regardless of the destination (within reasonable limits, of course).
-ERD50