Hello. Today I'd like to speak a little bit about a quite tricky topic – where to live. Because you know everybody has to solve it – it is just a matter of time. Of course, you can stay at your parents. That's also the choice. But usually people leave – some earlier, some later – but nowadays it is really the trend to live separately to live from the parents and grandparents. Yeah, so then there can occur a question if it is more suitable for you to live in the village or to live in the city. That's really a hard question. Each of us should think about our priorities and our possibilities, and what we actually expect from our life. I believe that each of us has different requirements and I also believe that these requirements can change through the life.
Well, so a little bit about me. I grew up in the village, in a small village near Ostrava. And I like it there really a lot, and I liked a village even though I lived some time in the city, I knew I would like to return back to the village. Because I think that it was the best for the growing up. So even in that time I was thinking of my children once, and I was imagining them playing at the sandpit and riding their motorbikes in front of our house. So these were definitely my priorities. Well, so after university I lived for two years in Prague. So I can really compare living in the city and in the village. Of course, that living in the village means really a neccessity of having a car because nowadays without a car we can't imagine the life. With the car everything was suddenly easier, yeah. Actually because of my work I bought my first car … that was seven years back probably, or eight even … when I was still at university, and I started teaching in one company but the transportation – commuting there was really bad. So usually I had to walk really quite a long distance and it was, of course, wasting of time. I really didn't enjoy much. That was one thing. The other thing was travelling to the university. I studied Báňská University in Ostrava and I can tell that from the village to get there to my university in the morning it took me total minimum 60 minutes but usually it took me 75 or 90 minutes. And in the afternoon it was much worse because our lectures finished at bad times according to the timetable of the bus so I had to travel home around 2 or even 2,5 hours. Not only to travel but, of course, to wait also. On one hand, it had some advantages – I had time to study, to read books, to prepare anything I wanted, to do shoppings and so on... that was definitely positive for me. But disadvantages - the time .. the waste of time .. especially, in the winter in the bad weather it was really unpleasant. Well, and then when I compare it when I bought my car it took me 30 minutes to get there and 30 minutes back so that was really saving of time.
But what surprised me was the fact that when I moved to Prague and started having lessons there in Prague the fact that I was feeling, actually, more tried. Because … that's truth .. that travelling so long you could really relax, you had to rest somehow .. but even though you travel over an hour in Prague which is, unfortunately, normal – people not living there usually don't believe there but even my husband now living in the village gets to work in around an hour or 75 minutes but when we lived in Prague he was travelling 75 minutes – that's horrible, incredible. Yeah, so it really depends – the public transportation in Prague is really full of people, really crowded and you need, of course, to change from bus to tram or underground so you surely can't relax so much as going to the village by one train or one bus. So that's surely a disadvantage to live in Prague, at least.
And about other advantages and disadvantages living in the village and city we can speak the next time.