I've lived in big, fairly congested cities including Delhi, New York, London, and Bombay. I think of myself as a loner and have preferred to spend time on my own, or have sought the company of a very few people.
Over the last few years, I have felt the need to escape the city to wander amongst the trees or be near the ocean: over here, I have felt vulnerable and humbled. I would rather do that over the city doing the same to me.
I often crave to get away from everything, to be elsewhere where a different kind of darkness engulfs.