According to the website Our World and Data.com, over 55% of the world lives in big cities.

And in places like Western Europe, the Americas, Australia, Japan, and the Middle East, that number is more

like 80%. So that means that there's a pretty good chance that many of you who are listening right now live in a big city or an urban area that's close to a big city.

I myself come from a medium-sized city, well at least for Canadian standards by hometown

Colonna has a population of around 150,000 people.

But now I live in Seoul and Seoul's considered a mega city with a

population of around 10 million people just in the city itself and then there are

millions more in the smaller cities surrounding it.

Now there's a lot of pros and cons to living in a big city but at least in my

opinion one of the advantages is all of the different amenities city life has to offer.

My name's Andrew and you're listening to Bonus episode number 43 of the Kuleps English podcast. Thank you so much

for clicking play and joining me here for an English study session. Today I'm going to

tell you a story from my life about what I got up to last week and interestingly

enough it's related to big city life.

And then towards the end of the episode I'm going to teach you about an interesting and useful English expression that you'll hear me use when I'm telling my story.

There's a transcript that we've created to accompany this episode and it's absolutely free for everyone to access.

It comes in two different formats, a PDF, which is best for printing off, or a digital interactive

version which is best for following along with if you're studying with your smartphone,

tablet, or computer.

You can get the transcript just by visiting our website, which is QLips.com,

or by following the link in the description for this episode.

One of the advantages of living in a big city is that they're home to many different types of people.

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