Quality of Life in Large Cities

Today, the quality of life in large cities is decreasing. Discuss the causes and solutions.

Nowadays, the quality of life in large cities depends on several aspects like income, occupation, transportation, and relationship (with family and friends). Every single one of these aspects could affect your quality of living. In the following paragraphs, I will describe these aspects, their causes and solution to deal with them.

Today, because of the growing population the opportunity for finding a desirable job is decreasing. The more you search for the occupation you like, the less you can find. So, so many people are working in some occupations that they hate. Besides the kind of job, its income will affect your satisfaction too.

In my opinion, social media is playing a strong role in dissatisfying people from their life. Every day, we watch videos and pictures from our friends or family who are visiting a new place or city or wearing a matched clothes with their spouse, or taking happy pictures with their children or friends in a luxury restaurant. So, we become jealous, we could not accept that those pictures are not their real whole life and it is just a special occasion. Caring about what other people are doing and competing in depicting our joyful moments with them, is killing us. Every day we only think about what should we do for a new show off? This really needs education and cultivation in schools. The only solution I can think about is changing the way we are growing our children, and allow them to enjoy their life beside technologies.

Another thing that has a major role in our lives is transportation. We spend so much time in the streets in our cars or public transportation facilities every day. Actually, we waste our time and we become exhausted after work with standing in a subway for one hour. So, when we arrive at our houses we are tired and not happy. I think we should allocate more budget to public transportation, or maybe try to find a home near our work locations.

The relationship is another role player in distressing people. I think, when we move to a bigger city or when we immigrate to a new country and we abandon our families and friends, actually we abandon some of our solaces. There is no solution to this problem sometimes we should decide in our lives and choose one thing over another one, and because of that, we might decide to have a better job but be far from our families and friends.

In my idea, dissatisfaction has been growing up in our era. We are living in a transitional period of history. The speed of life is now faster. In our ancestor’s period, lifestyle was the same in their whole life, but now it changes every several years. For example, after emerging computers, the Internet, cell phones, social media, etc. So, we are not used to live in these transitional periods yet. When we get used to a lifestyle, a new lifestyle shows up. I think we should deal with that and not worry so much about it.