# Where you live **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 11, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820 "2011-12-11T12:46:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/1 "2011-12-11T12:46:39Z")
Where do you live? ---
**Author:** ![Foggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foggy/32/1082_2.png) [@Foggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foggy)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/2 "2011-12-11T12:59:10Z")
Tenderloin District of San Francisco, about 4-5 blocks from City Hall. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/3 "2011-12-11T13:25:23Z")
Map wise, I live in a town, but in reality it’s a pretty rural area. Our “town” consists of 2 gas stations, 2 liquor stores, 2 bars, a subway, a thrift store, a fire department, an elementary school, and a police department. Everything else is houses (non-subdivision), apartments, or trailers. It’s not at all unusual to look out my front door during the day and see chickens, horses, or cows. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/4 "2011-12-11T13:38:28Z")
Small college town surrounded by farms - so I’m not sure what you’d call it. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/5 "2011-12-11T15:04:32Z")
Tel Aviv, between the top of Rothschild and the Kiryah. \*Very \*urban. I love it here. ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/6 "2011-12-11T15:26:56Z")
Mid-town Toronto. Nice parks, shops, restaurants, and transit all nearby. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/7 "2011-12-11T15:56:14Z")
> [@Mr.Accident](#): > > Map wise, I live in a town, but in reality it’s a pretty rural area. Our “town” consists of 2 gas stations, 2 liquor stores, 2 bars, a subway, a thrift store, a fire department, an elementary school, and a police department. Everything else is houses (non-subdivision), apartments, or trailers. > > It’s not at all unusual to look out my front door during the day and see chickens, horses, or cows. can’t be that rural if you have a subway. are you actually in a village? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/8 "2011-12-11T15:58:15Z")
Perhaps I’m being whooshed but I assume that’s “capital S Subway” not the mass transit subway. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/9 "2011-12-11T16:30:19Z")
I’m in a small, relatively affluent town in central NJ. I guess it’d be termed a bedroom community. Most everyone in my town commutes to work in one of the nearby large cities, i.e., Philadelphia and New York. Some commute to the smaller cities, e.g., Newark, Camden, Trenton, Edison, etc… There are no real businesses nor shopping centers in my town. We have to go to the next town over to do our grocery shopping, although there is a small convenience store within a ten-minute drive. My town has no public transportation, such as buses, although Amtrak and NJ Transit is within, I’d say, a half-hour drive. Both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania turnpikes are within a ten-minute drive. During an average weekday, you can pretty much spend the entire day outside in my town and not see another person until late afternoon when the few school-aged kids in the area come home. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/10 "2011-12-11T16:51:43Z")
Downtown Panama City, Panama, on the fifteenth floor of a highrise two blocks from the waterfront. There are annoyances like noise and traffic, but I prefer it to having to commute to a more suburban place (where there would be even worse problems getting back and forth due to traffic). It’s only about 15 minutes to my office as long as avoid the peak of rush hour. I like having the supermarket and restaurants only a couple of minutes away. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/11 "2011-12-11T16:55:38Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > Small college town surrounded by farms - so I’m not sure what you’d call it. Same here. It’s not _just_ a college town, though. It used to be a mill town, and now has lots of warehouses and industry. But surrounded by farms. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/12 "2011-12-11T17:00:29Z")
Rural mountains. If you could call it rural. About 25 miles from work. Though there is a very small town (Pop. ~ 200) about 4 miles away. Love it. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/13 "2011-12-11T17:19:59Z")
I live smack dab in the middle of the 73rd-largest city in the world in terms of land area. By population, it’s the 32nd largest based on metropolitan area or 12th largest based on residents strictly within the city limits. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/14 "2011-12-11T17:31:14Z")
Urban now but very rural in three years. Actually, I just exist here in the city. I _live_ in the country. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/15 "2011-12-11T17:41:36Z")
I grew up in a very rural area, so naturally I’m an urbanite. That said, I currently live on top of a steep hill, surrounded by jungle, in a place with no motorized transportation. When the weather is cool, as it is now, there is absolutely no noise at all between sundown and dawn - all the chirping insects are currently in hibernation. I sleep like a baby. There’s a general store on top of the hill which has extremely limited stock, and a village at the bottom which has somewhat limited stock. If I really need something - like today I realized that I absolutely had to buy a coat - I can go into the nearest city, but it’s a fair old hike. Really helps you understand the difference between ‘want’ and ‘need’. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![SeldomSeen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ba0ec/32.png) [@SeldomSeen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeldomSeen)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/16 "2011-12-11T17:54:28Z")
Eastern Oregon high desert. Very rural. [Malheur County](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malheur_County,_Oregon) is bigger than Vermont with a population density of 3/sq. mile. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/17 "2011-12-11T18:37:02Z")
I picked “other”; none of the choices really fit. Springfield is a small city (117,400), too small to really be considered “urban”; but it’s not a suburb or exurb of anywhere else (it has suburbs of its own), and certainly not rural. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/18 "2011-12-11T18:53:03Z")
I would describe it as peri-urban. Still within city limits, but the houses are far enough apart that it has a suburban feel. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Accident](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Mr.Accident](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Accident)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/19 "2011-12-11T19:17:00Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > can’t be that rural if you have a subway. > > are you actually in a village? \*\* Jophiel\*\* had it right. I meant the Subway sandwich shop, not a subway with trains. In my defense, I hadn’t been up long when I made my post. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820/20 "2011-12-11T19:26:11Z")
I’m in South Florida, about a 5 minute drive from a major professional sports team, and about the same 5 minutes from one of the largest malls in the country (Sawgrass Mills). I can walk to three large chain grocery stores from my house - if I’m on my bike, I have very easy access to two or three more. I guess I’ll call it an Urban area. -D/a [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-you-live/605820.md?page=2)