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As well, a fact is that packed up buses, crowded streets, traffic jams and the parements overflowing with crowds of people are not that much a part of an every day reality as it is in case of large cities. However, a great number of people, being a drawback of living in a big city, also hasa positive aspect about it. Namely, there is a high demand for services in urban areas and actually they are flourishing there. Conversely, in small towns, the people do not have a sufficient access to a variety of convenient services. For example, a person with serious medical disorders may have to go to a large city in order to be helped by a specialist. In the same way, the inhabitants of little towns sometimes venture to go to some big city just to do shopping, as the assortment of goods in their own town shops are not always satisfactory.