I grew up in several different cities, but the primary two where I spent most of my time had roughly 50,000 and 100,000 people in it. The city I live in now has closer to 150,000 people (though it seems significantly smaller to me). I prefer moderately populated cities (like where I grew up) to what I consider to be overpopulated ones (San Diego, which I was about 15 minutes outside of, or Denver, which is about an hour away).

I lived in the Suburbs at one point and it was terrible. I lived in a rural town for about 6 months or so (populate slightly more than 1,500) and it was nice but has some significant drawbacks - chief among them being it takes for smurfing ever to get anywhere you want to go.