I swear a good deal more when in the city my wife observes as we two wend our way along the street. The towers are kind of pretty: walls of glass, yet blocking out the day so down here on the sidewalk dreary shadows are damp reminders of how far we've come from towering trees, from open mossy meadows, from ravens swishing by. Look, here's a slum a block or two from banking towers and glamour. I should not fault the place. Variety is the spice, they say. But such a clamor of humans challenged by sobriety! Life here was once quite good to me, but now I'm just a rustic, pining for his plow.
I live in a small rural community but was an urbanite for many years and recently was back in the city to see a (remarkable, wonderful) show, and my wife said within a few minutes of getting there, "You swear a lot more here." There's a reason for that. I'm at home in the trees. Among the towers, I can flourish, but it's a lot more effort.