Here's a run-on sentence. No time to clean up today. Gotta' paint!
Personally, I'd go with the City1.CountrySite.com sub-directory version as it would cause for the entire domain to have deeper, richer depth making it easier to naturally empower it all in the SERPs (with the help of a well-structured navigational system of anchor links to the important webpages and with the inclusion of a comprehensive site map).
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