We all suffer stress sometimes - the anxiety and the feeling that life is hard to cope with. According to psychology, stress is an unpleasant state of emotional and psychological arousal that people experience in situations that they perceive as dangerous or threatening to their well being. Is that true that people who live in a city come across more stressful situations than others living in the countryside? In my opinion it is. An extremely dynamic development of big urban agglomerations brought about all known sources of stress, from the population growth, the level of noise, environmental pollution and life speed, to the danger of car accidents and crime increase. The intensity of stress sources concentrated on a small area strengthens stress undoubtedly.
             First of all, I would like to focus on the traffic in big cities that is incomparably greater than in the countryside. Driving a car in the rush hours for many people is the most stressful situation they can imagine, because it means moving forward very slowly and coming to a stop every several meters. Imagine such a situation: seven o'clock in the morning, long lines of cars, traffic jams, the sounds of horns, drivers' swearing, and finally, dozens of collisions that didn't have to happen. On the pavements, there are hundreds of people rushing in different directions and colliding with each. There is a gloomy mob in the crowded buses, trams and underground's carriages. A growing aggression can be felt almost tangibly. Even the pettiest incident may be enough to cause a serious row. The morning stress governs everything and everywhere and it is the first stress of the whole series that people living in the city encounter every single day.
             The next source of stress in a city is, undoubtedly, a large number of its inhabitants, clustered on a relatively small area. Every man needs his own living space and his own sphere of pri...