Location, Location, Location

Although my apartment is insanely small by Canadian standards it is in a sweat location! YES!!!

Many of you may know that most large cities in Asia tend to smell quite bad (By quite bad I mean they smell worse than Brooks, Alberta)! It is my understanding that the Cities of Korea are not exempt from the gutwrenching stink. Seul's got a smell to it, so does Daegu!
I live and teach in a suburb called Chilgo! No smell, clean air, and a mountain about 3 blocks away from my house! It has its pros and cons!
Pro: see above
Con: your kind of cut off from the rest of the city
Pro: things are cheaper in Chilgo!
Con: all the really cool stuff is downtown
Pro: I have almost any amenity imaginable within a 10 minute walk. Many parks, a market, many convince stores, restaurants, a gym, a yoga studio, bars, coffee shops....
Con: there is no night life in Chilgo.
Pro: the nights are peaceful, there is no vandalism and little crime, and the sidewalks are not crowded (even during the busiest times, on the busiest blocks, there's tones of room to walk, run, or ride a bike)
Con: there are only about 40 or so foreigners in Chilgo, a suburb of 300,000 people!
Pro: Special treatment because you are only one of the 40 or so foreigners in Chilgo (well sometimes)

You get the picture!
I think I enjoy the slower pace of Chilgo and downtown is only a $1500 ($1.80 CAN) bus ride away!!!
and I don't have to smell the smelly smells!