History Main / CityMouse

* Young BlitzEvacuees are often portrayed as such; some reportedly had never seen a farm animal or a forest, or even eaten a vegetable, before being moved to the countryside.

* ''Film/CitySlickers'' has an entire cast of them.

* Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith, in ''Film/FunnyFarm''.

* The title characters, particularly Meryl, in ''Meet The Morgans''
* The Blandingses, of ''Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House'', are sort of a variation of this.

* Creator/ReneeZellweger plays one of these in ''New in Town''.

* Flora Poste in ''Literature/ColdComfortFarm''.

* Theresa (later called Terry) in ''Hobby Horse Hill'' by Lavinia R. Davis.

* Mark Twain's novel ''The Prince and the Pauper'' had the titular characters switch places. They thought it would be great fun but turns out neither life is as carefree and pleasant as they hoped.

* Elizabeth (later called Betsy) in Dorothy Canfield's children's novel ''Understood Betsy''.

* Debbie Thornberry in ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys''.

* ''Series/ReservationDogs'': Jackie hates her "boring" new life on the rez, not content with simply relaxing and doing nothing like her gang members. She's such a city girl that she's never even made frybread before.

* Hachiken Yugo from ''Manga/SilverSpoon'' is an intelligent but [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife directionless]] boy from Sapporo (the largest city in Hokkaido) who decides to apply to an agricultural school, thinking that a school focused on farming will be easy and give him more time to prepare for university. He realizes he underestimated how much physical effort goes into a single day at such a school and how farming isn't as easy as it sounds, though he eventually gets used to it.

-->-- '''Quint''', ''Film/{{Jaws}}''

* Hachiken Yugo from ''Manga/SilverSpoon'' is an intelligent but [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife directionless]] boy from Sapporo (the largest city in Hokkaido) who decides to apply to an agricultural school, thinking that a school focused on farming will be easy and give him more time to prepare for university. HilarityEnsues when he realizes he underestimated how much physical effort goes into a single day at such a school and how farming isn't as easy as it sounds, though he eventually gets used to it.

* In the rom-com ''Film/ContinentalDivide'', the IntrepidReporter played by John Belushi has a pressing need to get out of Chicago, before corrupt city officials can arrange an unpleasant accident for him. The ''Sun-Times'' editor, for reasons known only to himself, sends him into the mountains of Wyoming, where HilarityEnsues.

** Although, oddly enough, she seemed to have an easier time dealing with Hooterville's craziness than [[OnlySaneMan Oliver]] did.
** Titularly ironic considering Eva Gabor also ''voices'' a rich mouse in ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers''.

* ''Series/ThePlotAgainstAmerica'': American Jews in New Jersey are city mice who balk at the thought of being forced to move to small towns in places like Kentucky and Montana. Rabbi Bengelsdorf institutes a government program in which metropolitan Jewish kids spend a summer on a farm to "Americanize" them. Sandy and his friend on the farm even refer to each other as "city mouse" and "country mouse."

* In contemporary U.S. politics, Democrats are stereotyped as effete urban people who have no concept of the "real America" in rural areas. Never mind that [[TheRez Native reservations]], the "Black Belt" in the coastal South, and the border region with Mexico are all heavily Democrat.

* VideoGame/FugaMelodiesOfSteel has Kyle Bavarois, who originally lived in the capital city of Paresia before moving to the rural Petit Mona due to his father's company going bankrupt. A lot of his Link Events involves him slowly warming up to the rest of the cast, who are already used to their lives in Petit Mona.