Read the article and match the phrases. CITY VS. COUNTRYSIDE. WHAT IS THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE? Big city glamour? Balderdash. Try big city cost. If you want to live like a king (or at least be your own landlord), move to the country. 1. It’s cheap. You have to actively try to spend more than $20 on a meal, even a good one. A movie still costs single digits. No one has a clue or cares what brand of clothing you’re wearing, let alone whether your shoes, purse or belt are this year’s season or last. And did I mention housing? You can live in a real house with multiple bedrooms, multiple bathrooms and a garage. 2. There’s space – for you, for your dog, for your kids, between you and your annoying neighbours. In the city, you live on top of each other. Your kids and your dog barely know what grass is. In the country, you have something called a yard. You run around, kick a football and chase fireflies. You go sledding and build snowmen on fresh snow that hasn’t been trodden by hundreds of others. 3. There are no billionaires. You don’t feel poor as you do in big cities where even those earning six-figures still believe they’re “just getting by “. In the country, you aren’t constantly aware of your socioeconomic status. You worry a lot more about the weather. 4. You aren’t reliant on public transit. You don’t have to push your way onto an overcrowded subway car only to find yourself squashed next to someone who smells or elbows you. You can drive yourself where you want, when you want. Even if there’s traffic (and there isn’t much outside of cities), you can usually find another way to go. You are in control, and there’s plenty of (free) parking. True False In the countryside, you always think about the weather. In the countryside, everyone is interested in where you buy your clothes. In the countryside, you cannot go to the cinema. In the countryside, everybody is obsessed with money and increasing their incomes.

Задание

Read the article and match the phrases.
CITY VS. COUNTRYSIDE. WHAT IS THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE?
Big city glamour? Balderdash. Try big city cost. If you want to live like a king $or at least be your own landlord$, move to the country.
1. It’s cheap. You have to actively try to spend more than $20 on a meal, even a good one. A movie still costs single digits. No one has a clue or cares what brand of clothing you’re wearing, let alone whether your shoes, purse or belt are this year’s season or last. And did I mention housing? You can live in a real house with multiple bedrooms, multiple bathrooms and a garage.
2. There’s space – for you, for your dog, for your kids, between you and your annoying neighbours. In the city, you live on top of each other. Your kids and your dog barely know what grass is. In the country, you have something called a yard. You run around, kick a football and chase fireflies. You go sledding and build snowmen on fresh snow that hasn’t been trodden by hundreds of others.
3. There are no billionaires. You don’t feel poor as you do in big cities where even those earning six-figures still believe they’re “just getting by “. In the country, you aren’t constantly aware of your socioeconomic status. You worry a lot more about the weather.
4. You aren’t reliant on public transit. You don’t have to push your way onto an overcrowded subway car only to find yourself squashed next to someone who smells or elbows you. You can drive yourself where you want, when you want. Even if there’s traffic $and there isn’t much outside of cities$, you can usually find another way to go. You are in control, and there’s plenty of $free$ parking.

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- True
- False
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- In the countryside, you always think about the weather.
- In the countryside, everyone is interested in where you buy your clothes.
- In the countryside, you cannot go to the cinema.
- In the countryside, everybody is obsessed with money and increasing their incomes.

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