I don't think there's anywhere in Indiana that you can be 20 miles from your neighbors. If I had a way to make a decent living I'd find a place like that in Wyoming or Alaska and move there, but that's easier said than done.

I said "rural", but we're kinda between suburban and rural. We live in a little unincorporated community about 5 minutes from a town of 500 and 7 minutes from a town of 1,000. The county seat is the biggest town in the county at 16,000, and it's about 10 minutes away. Our neighborhood consists of about 30 houses mostly on half-acre lots, so everyone is pretty close together, but my daily runs and dog walks take me between corn fields and a swamp/woods out to a dirt road. Yesterday I saw a family of deer, a flock of turkeys, and sandhill cranes. Some of our neighbors have poultry and a couple have had cattle.

We're also surrounded by large natural lakes. Go 3 blocks to the north and you'll encounter multi-million dollar lake houses that sit vacant 80-90% of the year until their owners come from Chicago or Indy for summer vacation or weekends. The lot next door to us has a structure that's been vacant for over 20 years and is condemned, and if you go a block to the south you'll find mobile homes. It's kind of a weird environment.

20 miles due west of St Louis. Definitely suburbia.

I'm in the suburbs of St Augustine but its very urban as far as population goes. There are full neighborhoods being built overnight. I've only been here just over a year and already the landscape has changed tremendously. I really hate it which is somewhat strange since I'm part of the problem.

In a small town, less than 11,000, in upstate newyorkistan.

Suburban but luckily in an older established area with a little over an acre of land and no HOA.

Until a year ago we were suburban/urban but now we are most definitely rural.

I call it rural as urban is a stretch for <9000 population, with the county being well under 20,000.

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Originally posted by 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.

Im in Clarkdale, AZ. I’d guess by your description of distances, and Arid Zone A, you’re in Wickenburg? The National Forest has me a little confused, but what we call a forest can be two scrub brush bushes per square mile.

I’m kind of rural-ish suburban. Tucson is 20 miles away, but we do have a few things here. On the bright side, behind us is state trust land which “should” never get developed (unless the state ends up selling off the land, but that’s doubtful). Also, we can hop in our side-by-side and be out on trails in less than 1/4 mile. Sadly, much of the farmland around us out here is getting developed into more subdivisions. I work on the south side of Tucson, so my commute is about 35 mins in the morning, and 45-60 minutes coming home. But only 19 more months until I retire, so there’s that. The older I get, the more the heavy traffic and crowded roads annoy the crap out of me.

Rural- I live 3.5 miles from town, where I can shoot and hunt in my back yard. Have neighbors on both sides of me in which we check with each other before we start shooting, just to make sure no one is in the woods. I have a great backstop, but it is a respect thing.

Rural. I live on 100 acres out in the county. I can shoot whenever I want and even fish some ponds on the property. Wouldn't trade it.