Cities can be frightened places. The majority of the population live in noisy massive tower blocks. __1__The sense of belonging to a community tends to appear when you live thirty floors up in a skyscraper. __2__Strange enough, whereas in the past the inhabitants of one street all knew each other, __3__nowadays people on the same floor in tower blocks even say hello to each other. __4__Country life, on the other hand, differs from this kind of isolated existence in that a sense of community generally keep the inhabitants of a small village together. __5__People have the advantage of knowing that there is always someone to turn to when they need help.So country life has disadvantages too. For example, shopping becomes a major problem and __6__for anything slightly out of the ordinary you have to go for an expedition to the nearest large town. __7__The country has the advantage of peaceful and quiet, but suffers from the is advantages of being cut off. __8__The city has noise and population which do harm to human health. But one of their main advantages is that __9__ you are at the centre of things and that life doesn't come to an end even at ten at night. Some people have found a compromise be-tween the two: they expressed their preference for the quiet life by leaving for the city and moving to the __10__country within commuting distance of the large city.