Urban, but small-ish (~16K population). Close enough to the city that I can get there without undue time or cost, but far enough away to avoid all the city crap.
March 12, 2025, 07:34 PM
Beancooker
I’m in the same boat as Bendable. It’s not really the suburbs and not really rural. I can drive less than two miles and shoot guns in the desert. There is a Home Depot, and Walmart, and a few grocery stores.
If you want to buy anything that Walmart, Safeway, Home Depot, or Ace Hardware doesn’t carry, it’s a trip to Phoenix.
Example, I needed black Levi’s brand Jeans. I had to go to Phoenix. Car needed window tint, Phoenix it was. Prescott is an hour away, Phoenix is an hour and a half.
quote:
Originally posted by sigmonkey: I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
March 12, 2025, 07:37 PM
Blackhorse4
Small farm(7+ Acres)amid other small farms. Can still shoot and hunt here. Eight miles to nearest shopping of any size.
March 12, 2025, 07:49 PM
TomS
quote:
Originally posted by sjtill: Do you have to aim carefully, or does it just stand there and wait for you to hit it?
I don’t really hit it. I just curse at it when I get there if the light’s red.
Best regards,
Tom
I have no comment at this time.
March 12, 2025, 10:41 PM
bettysnephew
I live in the second largest city in Iowa but the whole place is much more like suburbs in other states for the most part. My cul de sac has a grand total of four single family homes. Recently there has been a boom of constructing apartment buildings which is due to the Derecho that hit a couple of years ago and damaged many older homes beyond repair. Like many cities MidWest agricultural states we tend to prefer a bit of elbow room around our homes. We don't have any row housing or build on the property line except by mistake.
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March 12, 2025, 11:20 PM
bendable
"I’m in the same boat as Bendable"
We have a smallish Tru Value, a pharmacy and a grocery store, Not A supermarket. ,two banks four church's. Two gas stations.
Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency.
Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first
March 13, 2025, 02:15 AM
2000Z-71
Suburban, kind of. It's Alaska suburban, moose are known to wander through the neighborhood, black bears raid trash cans in the summer. Walk across the road and I can hike down to the river. Eagle River is kind of a small town, technically part of the Municipality of Anchorage, but the base separates us from the rest of Anchorage. I really love the neighborhood I live in; close enough to Anchorage to be convenient, yet separated enough I feel like I'm living in Alaska and not Los Anchorage.
My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball.
March 13, 2025, 06:36 AM
Bassamatic
Definitely rural. We have about 75 acres here. No neighbors, my backyard is my range, 15 minutes to town and the deer hunting is fantastic. We love it.
.....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress.
March 13, 2025, 06:58 AM
pace40
quote:
Originally posted by darthfuster: 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.
This...(without the Mrs DF, of course)
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March 13, 2025, 07:12 AM
tatortodd
Surburban for now, but I'm about 3.75 years from retirement and planning to be rural.
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March 13, 2025, 08:27 AM
ridewv
No neighbors within sight of my home.
1 mile to our community which consists of a church and a dozen or so houses.
Another 5 miles to "town" which is near an interstate. It has 2 gas stations, farm and feed store, church, Dollar General, local butcher shop, barber shop, grade school, family medical clinic, 2 bars, and volunteer fire dept. No traffic light.
No car is as much fun to drive, as any motorcycle is to ride.
March 13, 2025, 08:56 AM
UTsig
I considered our area semi-rural when we moved here 20 years ago. It's become suburban, though my town does not have police, fire, emergency or schools.
"Nature scares me" a quote by my friend Bob after a rough day at sea.
March 13, 2025, 09:03 AM
V-Tail
quote:
Originally posted by bendable:
Two gas stations.
I grew up in a really small town. We had two gas stations, but they shared the same pump.
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March 13, 2025, 09:14 AM
HRK
quote:
Originally posted by ArtieS: 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.
Same here on the east side, at one time Red Bug Road was two lane, now it's 4 lane all the way through Oviedo. I could get on my motorcycle and be out in farm land in 5 minutes, now 20 and it's heavy traffic on all roads.
Subdivisions are popping up everywhere hundreds of homes, new shopping centers on every corner, traffic all day.
March 13, 2025, 09:26 AM
rainman64
My nearest neighbor is 5 acres away. And that is too close!
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March 13, 2025, 09:54 AM
lbsid
I'm on the edge of town in a 20 year old neighborhood. Rural starts to the east of me for about a half a mile, then it's forest all the way to Montana.
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The sadder but wiser girl for me.
March 13, 2025, 10:05 AM
Silent
Just at 25 miles to the first stop light. 1/2 mile as the crow flys to the closest neighbor. Almost heaven for us.
Silent
March 13, 2025, 10:12 AM
Gibb
I'm in the 20 minute bubble... its 20 minutes to anything and everything.
We do have the small town convince store/gas station, and a Dollar General, but aside from that it's a good twenty minute drive to any of the 3 towns that circle us to get to a grocery store, pharmacy, hardware store or any restaurants.
And I don't mind it one bit!
I shall respect you until you open your mouth, from that point on, you must earn it yourself.
March 13, 2025, 12:17 PM
YooperSigs
Trowbridge Park. I guess its a suburb.
End of Earth: 2 Miles Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
March 14, 2025, 10:23 PM
Nuclear
I think I’m not too far from Beancooker. I’m half an hour from Phoenix and an hour from Prescott. Suburbs bordering on rural, I can see the National forest from my house.
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