Most didn't, or didn't have the opportunity. Cities were generally free of seigneurial burdens, and urban residence often released peasants of their obligations to their lord, sometimes after a year and a day, though newcomers might face a new range of obstacles, for instance in entering trade. "Stadtluft macht frei", ran a German saying: "City air makes you free".
Medieval ladies usually lived in manor houses. Sometimes they lived in castles. Especially in the later part of the Middle Ages, some members of the nobility had town houses in towns or cities, so a few ladies lived in these.
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
One Opinion:My own view is that depending on the time in the Middle Ages and what is meant by advanced, the most advanced cities in Europe were probably Constantinople, Cordoba, Paris, London, and Lübeck. Other people will have other opinions.
Mercantile was the primary occupation along with farming during the the Middle Ages.
had more free time and more money to spend .
because ugly people lived there
that period was the middle ages
When people brought back Middle Eastern rugs and other items, people began to move away from manors and trade in the cities. Manor life went our of fashion. Hope this helps!!!
There were serfs, nobility, and clergy. There were other groups too, including the merchants, but they were not so important in the early times when the manors were intended to be self sufficient.
Medieval ladies usually lived in manor houses. Sometimes they lived in castles. Especially in the later part of the Middle Ages, some members of the nobility had town houses in towns or cities, so a few ladies lived in these.
The towns grew up around the manor for safety and people could help each other.
Some serfs left their manors, with or without permission, and settled in towns and cities. In some cases they were encouraged to do so by monarchs who wanted to make the cities grow. Most of these serfs remained laborers, but a few started businesses and were able to achieve a measure of middle class prosperity. You should understand that the middle class was not made up of former serfs, however. People of the middle class, who were neither land owners, nor serfs, nor clergy, had been around since ancient times. Many craftsmen, artisans, and business owners lived and worked during the entire Middle Ages. The serfs were not even the only people moving into the middle class, as the younger children of nobility sometimes moved to cities and used the educations they had received to be lawyers, doctors, and other members of wealthy middle class society.
People are leaving rural areas and moving to cities.
the majority of the population, peasants, lived on farms, or in cramped houses in cities while working in factories. the middle class would have had nice little cottages in towns, nobility would have manors, and in some cases castles, and clergy would have lived in a church/monastery.
Refuge, mostly.
During the Middle Ages, most people were farmers.
Most people ate in their homes. People who lived in communal organizations such as monasteries usually ate in common eating areas. Noble families and guests sometimes ate in the great halls of manors.