Would you rather live in the rural areas of Wales? Rather than a Welsh town or city?

However definite your answer to this question is, the reasons will depend on a combination of some or all of the following factors.

• Where you live at present,

• Where you friends and family live,

• Your perception of life in the alternative place

• How old you are

• What you want to do (or do now) for work

• Your recreational interests

• How wealthy you are

• Your healthy you are

TRY THIS ACTIVITY!

Design and carrying out a questionnaire of 10 people asking them the key question :-

'Would you rather live in the rural (countryside) areas of Wales or in a Welsh town/city?'

Also - make sure you collect the information on the above list from the people you ask.

If the whole class were to ask 10 people each , you could search many as 300 answers for patterns of what sort of people want to live where in Wales.

People have reasons for their choices of where they want or where they are able to live. If they are able to choose, they balance their perceptions (opinions ) of the plus and minuses to come to their answer.

Recent reports have highlighted the following perceptions of living in rural Wales - Do they balance out?

Do they explain the results of your questionnaire survey?

The plan has a total budget of £795 million with £195 million coming from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)