i’m a firm believer in letting no joke pass.
We’re about three-quarters suburban, but not full-on suburbs (i.e., not in the Land of McMansions).
If I had a basement, I’d ask whether you were hiding out in it! College town, population about 25,000 (up from about 15,000 when I was growing up here.) University enrollment of about 20,000 (up from about 4000 when I was growing up here.) I’m about .1 mile from being in the county vs in the city limits.
If you go to my twitter page you can see a photo I took of a raccoon eating from the bird feeder and read posts about beavers felling trees into my road. So, uh, rural.
Small town is a very rural area. We only have about 30 miles of road and they don’t connect to anything.
Central London.
Address says I’m in a city, taxes and services paid to a township, am on a dead-end road with fields and woods on and abutting my property and would have to drive (or walk/bike several miles) to a grocery store. We have wild turkeys, fox, raccoons, possums, deer, coyotes and rabbits all around but I’m not far from some densely-populated urban areas.
So, technically urban, not truly rural but something in between.
Rural, because I can see other mailboxes from where mine is. You wouldn’t be wrong calling it “The Sticks”.
Technically, it’s considered rural (according to the USDA), but we have public sewer and water (something VERY important to me when I was looking for a house to buy) and have several places to shop and eat in town. We even have several traffic lights.
However, if I look out my front window, in between the houses across the street, I can see the pasture where cows are kept. On days when they’re in the ‘high pasture’ (by my neighbors) and the wind is right, I can even smell them.
My town is about 45 minutes from Baltimore and 20 minutes from Harrisburg and another 20 from Lancaster–all fairly decent sized cities.
I’ve done some wandering since I returned to Colorado. I’m not certain where you live, but given the descriptions I’ve seen before, I think you are not “rural”, but are “no snowplows between 7 pm and 5 am”.
We’re (very) nominally in the so-called Southern Suburbs of Cape Town, but really it’s more urban than suburban -5min into centre of town, semi-detached houses predominate, a high street with restaurants and the like.
Hey Frank. Not sure what you mean. Since I don’t have neighbors, I can plow when ever I want.
Let’s see. No mail delivery, no garbage pick up, the only utilities are elec and phone, no cable/DSL. The county does plow our road, but since it is a dead end and we are the only full time residents, we are not much of a priority. Sometimes I’ll just plow the road/s as well as my drive.
I live in a small city (population 22,000) in a rural county. We have a mayor and city council, police and fire departments, city water and sewer, trash collection, a daily newspaper and public transportation. My house is about a half mile from the center of the city, and I see deer in my yard every dusk and dawn.
I live about five miles outside the Capital Beltway in Burke, VA.
Urban and I love it. Walking distance to bars (not terribly important) and restaurants and ethic groceries (hugely important). Better access to healthcare, libraries, coffee shops, theater…
I’m not quite sure what counts as suburb vs exurb in the Northeast where I currently live. In the Midwest, the distinction seemed a bit clearer. Suburbs were mostly-residential towns that were continuous with the nearby urban center. I.e. if you drove from the suburbs to the city you wouldn’t ever see farms or large tracts of undeveloped land. Exurbs were small clusters of new housing developments way out in the middle of fuck nowhere. Usually exurbs didn’t even have much in the way of commercial areas either-- often just a strip mall with a grocery store, a gas station, and a few other little businesses. If you drove from the exurbs to the city center, you would pass through rural areas.
But in the northeast, all of these distinctions aren’t quite so neat. For example, Cambridge is outside of Boston, but I can’t conceive of it as a suburb. Further out that direction, Lexington seems to fit my concept of suburb. But how do you classify Concord or any of the other towns that surround Boston? They’re far outside of Boston, with a fair bit of rural-looking areas in between. And in many cases they were historically independent towns which slowly fell under the influence of Boston as the larger city grew.
I meant to click ex-urb.
I meant to click ex-urb.:smack:
The town that I live in is the county seat in the county just east of Nashville. Although there are commuters to Nashvegas (we even have a light rail station), a good share of our population of ~25,000 people work in the county. Farming is still big here (we have stockyards complete with regular livestock auctions). Even so, I’m only about half an hour from the airport in the city.
The town in the western part of the county is definitely a suburb of Nashville, while the town in the eastern part of the county is pretty agrarian / arts community. There are a few scattered villages and unincorporated areas as well.
I live in a small city and I’d say I’m on the border between what would be called urban and suburban. 15 years ago it would have been the very edge of the city but then new suburban developments went up.
I saw signs all over some of the minor highways (route 92 between Crawford and U.S. 50, for instance) that said the roads were not plowed between 7pm and 5am.