William Cowper, the famous English Poet, wrote, "God made the country and man made the town." This famous statement represents the natural difference between town life and country (village) life. In a village, we see things as God made them—wide open sky above, the green fields, beautiful flowers and murmuring stream. But the town is the product of man's labour and cuts us off from the direct contact with nature.
Both town life and country life have their advantages and disadvantages. A village has no good roads making transport difficult, no electricity, no proper intellectual atmosphere and no recreational facilities. Generally good doctors and teachers avoid villages on account of hard life. The shops cannot always supply all the needs of modern life. So people have to run to nearby town.
But the village life has its bright side also. It is free from most of the evils of town life. Life in a village is quiet and peaceful. It is rich in natural beauty. Vast fields smile with green crops, rivers flow gently, flowers give fragrant smell, birds sing merrily. Living in a village is cheap. Vegetables and fruits are fresh, milk is pure and air is fresh. The people of a village are bound together by a tie of love and affection, and they help one another in their distress.
Towns, on the other hand, provide you with all you want. There are good roads, electricity, good schools and colleges, good hospitals and clinics and good stores to meet all your wants. For recreation, you have clubs, libraries, cinemas and museums of different kinds.
But town life has its disadvantages too. The air is full of smoke and soot, and the food is mostly adulterated. Its streets are always noisy. Living is also costlier here. Fresh vegetables, fruits and milk are hardly available. This is why some people have raised the cry "back to village". A large number of people migrate from villages to towns for treatment, education and employment. The need of the hour is to provide necessary facilities in the villages so that the people can live in there peacefully
