Would You Most Want to Live in a City, a Suburb or the Country? A recent Sunday Review article looked at how attitudes and patterns are changing in terms of where Americans prefer to live. Where do you live now - in a city, in a suburb, in a small town or in the country? What are its benefits and drawbacks? Where do you want to live as an adult? In the article "Is Suburban Sprawl on Its Way Back?," Shaila Dewan writes about whether "suburban sprawl" - a trend in which small suburbs spread outward as people look for cheaper places to live - will continue. Leigh Gallagher, the author of "The End of the Suburbs: Where the American Dream Is Moving," [argues] that the return of the housing market does not mean the return of sprawl. In her 272-page book, Ms. Gallagher marshals demographic, economic and anecdotal evidence. Couples are marrying later and having smaller families - by 2025, she says, the majority of suburban households are expected to have no children. Teenagers are increasingly opting to go without driver's licenses. Millennials, economically strapped and witness to the housing crisis, say they prefer to live in urban environments. Boomers are reconsidering their large houses and landscaped yards. The price of sprawl has become increasingly undeniable. Moderate-income families have seen their transportation costs balloon to more than a quarter of their income. Cities have discovered that low-density developments fail to pay for their own infrastructure. More recently, a new study of economic mobility suggested that sprawl, and its accompanying lack of transportation options, prevented access to higher paying jobs. What best describes where you live now: a city, a suburb, a small town or the country? What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in a place like this? What trade-offs would you be willing to make? For instance, would you take a longer commute to have a bigger house? Would you pay more to live in the middle of a big city? Do most people in your area tend to stay in the same place after high school or college, or do they move away? If they move, where do they tend to go? Where do you think your parents prefer that you live as an adult?