I live in what used to be a sleepy little rural retirement community where the median age was 97+. Over the last 20 years it has turned into an off-shoot of the “Not quite part of Los Angeles” greater megapolis. We are where it stops being city and starts being desert on the road to Palm Springs.
Me, three. The town is also the county seat, pop. 26,000, but surrounded by farms. Within 30 minutes of a couple of decent-sized cities, though.
I picked suburb. I live about 20 minutes from the Worcester line but about 45 minutes from anything interesting in the city (damn traffic). My town has about 20k people. We have low income housing and high income housing. The biggest (national?) chain stores are Consumer Auto Parts and Radio Shack though the next town over has a very small WalMart. We do have a McDonald’s but we just lost our Blockbuster. The two grocery stores within my town are a fairly small grocery store chain (Big Y) and a family owned grocery store (Big Bunny - yes, they have a big bunny on the roof). We used to have a major factory which is now a conference center (something I find hilarious).
I love this town.
Ah. We live about a mile from Highway 9 between Alma and Breckenridge. Hoosier Pass. It’s on some special snow route that they always keep open. Rumor has been that it’s a military thing :shrug:.
In fact, I70 closes more often than Hoosier Pass. Avy’s endager and tourists and semi’s crash on 70. Hwy 9 is mostly locals that can drive. Mostly.
The roads off of it that lead to our house are a different matter and it can take a few days before the county gets to them. Hence the 4x4’s, tow straps and plow truck.
I grew up very rural in central Ill. Mountain ‘rural’ is a different thing entirely, but I still voted rural.
Proably needed a Small Town option on the poll. Though what qualifies as a small town would be something else to consider.
Truly suburban, I think. We don’t live in sprawling tract housing, but we do live in a small bedroom community about ten miles away from a small city.
Rural logging community in the coastal rain forests of NW Oregon.
Within walking distance of downtown. (It’s a long walk, but I’ve done it in good conditions.)
Neighborhood was suburban about a century ago–oldish housing stock & newish restaurants/bars springing up on the periphery of the neighborhood.
Close to bus routes that (with assistance from light rail) make commuting quite easy. Which is not the case throughout the metro area…
Wow, Oxford must be a lot more rugged than they show in the travel films about England.
(I assume I missed the memo that you moved…and where exactly is this prime estate near Grizzly Adams?)
I checked rural but to me, rural means “in the country”. We’re almost in the country. The house is on the edge of town (pop. 168) and our yard backs up to farmland and wind farms. The guy who owns the land usually plants alfalfa, but this year he planted corn and we lost our view.
It was a view of nothing, but it was still a view.
Suburban but planing on moving to rural…
or the one between that and suburban…
Never heard of it.
Lemme tell you where I used to live. (Now, I’m in a dull boring medium-large city in an apartment.)
But I used to live here. Look at the photos labelled home01.jpg through home02.jpg there, and you’ll see my idea of the Garden of Eden.
I had to leave because of medical problems. As I drove away for the last time, I truly felt like I was being kicked out of the Garden of Eden.
Good on you. One of the nicest apartments I’ve ever lived in was in the Tenderloin.*
In contrast, now I’d say I live in “hellhole” San Leandro. (I frequently refer to my apartment as “squalorville”.)
*For non-Americans (well hell, for non-San Francicans) the Tenderloin is where crack dealers go to knife each other.
I picked suburban, but really it’s more complicated than that (as is everything). we live on the very edge of a medium sized town, so it’s not urban, but we live in a tiny neighborhood that has a suburbanite feel. However, it’s still five minute from everything and ten minutes from downtown, and all of the people in my neighborhood are firmly middle class.