TOEFL® essay: Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live...

[Pennyyeoh]

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Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in? Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

I prefer to live in a big city rather than a small town. In a city, public transportations and facilities are accessible and convenient. For instances, taking MRT instead of driving could save money and time during the traffic congestion in the morning. Big city is a hub of interchange of transportation. I can reach rail way station or airport in a short time instead of spending much time in traveling from town. At my leisure time, I like to have a coffee, watch a movie in cinema or wandering at bookstore or shopping mall in a big city.

When I am looking for advance technology gadgets or personal stuff. I would make a list to compare with different brands and features. There are more options provide me to choose in variety computer shops or giant big shopping mall in city. Hence, big city enable me to make a budget to compare different brands among the sufficient resources.

City is a main point of commercial economic area. Job opportunities attract me to live in city. There are more professional people and higher challenge working in a city. Similarity industries used to held conference in city. It would be a good opportunities to enhance my working social life and absorb new technologies knowledge from others. I like to work in a fast path environment. Although I might work in a stress and challenging conditions, I would step out of comfort zone to explore and enrich my life in such challenging and demanding city.

In another, city is a well develop place to attract different type of events from all over the world. Due to convenient facilities such as hotel, car park, shopping center, restaurants, high accessibility public transportations and systematic organizing might benefit to commercial exhibitions, car shows, travel exhibitions or concerts held in city. If I stay at town, I need to spend much money and time in travel a long journey to attend such activities. Staying in city would be easier for me to attend.

Lastly, I would say city is variety spice of life. I like to enjoy in a busy atmosphere circumstance instead of staying in quiet small town. There are more opportunities to get along with different type of people from different culture background as well. It is a good place to sharpen my social life and build up modern sights instead of staying in a town.

TOEFL listening discussions: A conversation between two students in their first class of the term

[Silky]

Some people prefer to live in a small town. Others prefer to live in a big city. Which place would you prefer to live in?

Well some people would want to live in a small time due to clean environment and more friendly behavior of town people. However I will prefer to live in a big city. As I think a big city has so many advantages in comparisons to a small town. Today there is not much difference in a big city and a small town but there is lots of opportunity is only in a big city.

All the facilities available in a big city are large enough to service all. There are so many hospitals, university, entertainment center, business centers and so many offices. As there is lots of requirement for job so opportunity will be more.

Large city provided attractive offers for luxurious life. No doubt that coast of living in cites are more but quality of is also very good .You don’t have to worry for anything if you are earning good .If life is worry free, what would else we need.

In cities you can buy/sell every small thing online over internet. Due to convenience delivery is also very fast. So you have comfort of living here.

From education point of view a city has larger number of institution. Professors seems to more aware from drastically change in technology. There is more chance of advanced education as city student gets new information and knowledge much earlier.

As you can see from opportunity, quality of life and education point of view a city has much more than small town. We can easily fulfill our dreams in much better way in a big city.

[Tomasito]

To live in small city is more excitement to me. In small city people can get good environment conditions, without polluition caused by cars, machines, and so on which make damages in human health. By the way we get naturals feed, pure air, factors which can make us live for long years.
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[Silky]

Yes, you are right. To live in small city has its own advantages but it's also depends on what is your priority?

[Tomasito]

We do not depend of our priorities. I think the priorities depends of us. If we live in a city and move to field we will find a new kind of live. And than we'll define our new priorities. We can build a small company, start a business, etc.
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Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant