Life in the big city is face-paced, fun and exciting. There are countless job opportunities and activities to occupy your time. However, with the good, also comes the bad. After living a big city for eight years, I experienced both the advantages and disadvantages of big city life. Forme, towards the end, the disadvantages were out weighing the advantages.
Although, the big city has more job opportunities; there are also more people competing for a single job. This can make your job search frustrating. Oddly enough, you will see hundreds, if not thousands of jobs available each week, but you still might remain unemployed, especially when the economy is down. For example, you might be qualified for a job, but 10 other people who are applying for the position are slightly more qualified. Maybe they have more job experience or a master's degree and you just have a bachelor's.

Traffic can be a nightmare in the big city. It can get so bad that it can turn you in to an evil person. If you hate driving in traffic, than the big city life is not for you.

Pollution is a sad reality for big city life and one of the biggest disadvantages. It would always sadden me when I would drive into the city for work in the morning in the summer time and see huge cloud of smog hovering over the downtown skyline. Unfortunately, pollution may always be a problem in the big city despite the efforts made to reduce pollution

There is always more crime in a big city, causing you second case your decision for living in a big city. You are much more likely to be a victim of a crime living in a big city than in a small town