No particular reason, just wondering.

Question:
How would you describe where you live?

Choices:
Urban
Suburban
Rural
Remote (something like at least 20 miles from anyone else)

 

I'm just close enough to a town (not a city), that I am considered rural, so, that's how I voted. Still, it is 10 miles to my town.

Kind of "in-between" suburban and rural. My street, while off the "main drag," is lined with houses, townhouses and apartments, but within a half-mile radius is a property with a smokehouse, a horse and a mule, another that keeps bees, and another that is a cornfield. ETA: Johnson City is a smallish city of ~66,000 and I am on the outskirts of it.

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I live in rural, becoming suburban. I am in Central Florida. Our place is 25 acres, all of the house lots around us are a minimum of 5 acres. 10 years ago, it was rural, mostly hay and cattle. Now, suburbia is encroaching. There are 700+ houses going in on an old series of orange groves just two miles away.

The downtowns of both Clermont and Groveland are 6 to 8 miles away, and are becoming more and more "attractive" with restaurants, pubs, shops, etc. Publix is 6 miles away.

We are running out of rural land in Florida if it is 1.5 hours or less to a major airport. Still plenty of rural around this state, but it is truly out in the boonies now, with little to no infrastructure such as grocery / hardware / restaurant, etc. around.

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In the "suburbs" of Washington DC where population density (and traffic!) is higher than in many areas considered urban. I suspect this is true for the suburbs of most major cities, that the urban area extends far outside the city boundaries.

So where does urban stop and suburban begin? I see no line on the ground that tells me. IS there a formal definition that could be applied?

I voted "urban" because I live in the city, but most of what's around here looks more like the suburbs. Single family homes, big yards, open shopping centers.

Technically, I live "in town", specifically one of the seven villages that make up the "town" of Gouldsboro.

I have neighbors on the North and South sides with dwellings within 100 feet or less. Both are seasonal. My house faces East and the town road is about 40 feet from my front door.

I live on 4 acres. The West side is bordered by a fresh water stream and once you cross the stream it's 5 miles of undeveloped woods as long as you head a few degrees North of West.

Little or no zoning beyond setbacks, wetland and flood plain requirements. I kept a flock of sheep and a llama in my "back yard" for more than 20 years.

So yeah, rural...

I’m rural enough to shoot guns from my back deck. I also can do that in my underwear but Mrs DF thinks that’s low budget.

Suburban. 20 miles from Chicago. It’s horrible, too dense for me. But I’ve been here long enough that the light at the end of the mortgage tunnel is getting pretty big.

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Originally posted by egregore:
Kind of "in-between" suburban and rural. My street, while off the "main drag," is lined with houses, townhouses and apartments, but within a half-mile radius is a property with a smokehouse, a horse and a mule, another that keeps bees, and another that is a cornfield.

ditto,

I call it semi rural,

shop is on an older neighborhood, and 5 miles away is my house in a 20yr old neighborhood,
all near a State Park,

I live in Beach VA, which is about as big as a minute (one country store) and am about 8 miles from a grocery store etc, on a main road,

in 30 minutes I can be in Downtown RVA or Petersburg

I can't afford to own enough acreage to be 20 miles from the next property. If I could, I would. Goals for someday.

I probably fall into somewhere between remote and rural.

It's a 45-50 minute drive at highway speeds to reach the nearest incorporated city, in either direction (there are only 2 directions with developed roads.)

I do have neighbors. Most properties in this area are 5-10 acres. We're about 30-35% developed.

I'm in close proximity to a native village, some would consider us to be inside their territory. Technically they are a soverign nation, as lesser 49 BIA considers all natives to be soverign. Thankfully, I'm in an area where the natives are mostly not racist pricks. They'll actually share resources, and encourage community. Many tribes in Alaska pull the soverign nation BS and discriminate (you can't go to their health clinics even in an emergency, you can't ride their ride-share/shuttle programs, you can't enter any of their buildings, you can't attend any of their events...even though public funds pay for the majority of their programs.) I'm in a rare place, which might dox me to those who know, where the tribe is active and beneficial, and non discriminatory.

I happen to live in close proximity to a volunteer fire/ems department also. So some services.

So far, it is a good place to live. I can halibut fish from the beach that I ride to on my ATV, about 1 mile from my "homestead."

No zoning of any significance (We have country/borough zoning that is nearly nonexistent), no HOA's, no city codes, no policing (other than the 12-15 state troopers located in our borough -which is the size of New Jersey. The closest trooper station is a 45 Minute drive to the North on the highway at 60 mph.)

I'm hoping to move further out someday. I'm going for fly-in only.

Starlink has made all of this possible.

Those that can guess where I live... please don't. You'd all be welcome around my campfire, but I don't need to make it too easy on anyone.

O urban
O Suburban
X tiny town
O rural
O remote

I’m not really sure. It’s kind of in between rural and suburban. It’s a gated subdivision of 20 homes surrounded by farmland and horse pastures. We are directly in the center of 3 towns of approximately 10,000 people each. I can make it to any of the 3 towns in under 8 miles.

Rural suburbs.

Semi-rural, rapidly becoming suburban.

I live on the outskirts between a 8k town and a 10k town, in a subdivision surrounded on three sides by cow fields.

But I'm within 10-15 miles of two 100k cities, 30 miles from two other 100k cities, and part of an overall 700k+ metroplex area that kinda just runs together into one big suburban sprawl with some rural patches.

Suburb of Cincinnati.

Suburbs. The subdivision (and all of the houses) date to 1958 in what used to be cornfields, orchards, and pasture. It's as developed as it's ever going to be unless there are radical changes to the zoning law.

I was in for rural when we bought a few years ago, but have older in-laws and proximity to them was a factor. If there's a "next time," look for a "rural" vote.

12 miles up a winding 2 lane mountain road from a town of 800. My property is smack dab in the middle of the Cherokee National Forest.
I have to drive 30+ miles before I hit a stoplight.

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I have to drive 30+ miles before I hit a stoplight.

Do you have to aim carefully, or does it just stand there and wait for you to hit it?

Ten miles from the county seat. There is nothing behind our house for a mile to the next road.

Farm with pond. We raise most of our food. About 1,300 people in our township.