Actually, I have no desire to start the school in any city. City life, especially in this age of Kali-yuga, is very much polluted. Poet Cowper stated that the city is made by man and the village is made by God. So in the village there is a natural tendency for Krishna consciousness.

(From Srila Prabhupada’s letter to Satyabhama Dasi, 27 December 1968)