Rural or suburban: If you have a non-functioning lawn tractor, farm tractor,

[hedgehog]

truck or car "out back" because you're going to fix it someday/going to get some parts off it, you're rural.

If you have an "out back", you're rural.

If you have 5 or fewer acres of perfectly mown, fertilized and weed free lawn, you're suburban.


Anyone want to add to the list?

[Avalux]

1. If you can walk out your back door, through your property and up a mountain, you're rural.

Those were the days.....my parents still live there, but a highway messed everything up.

[UncleYoder]

2. You people have lawns,

around here, we have "land".
So, go ahead and turn around in the grass. You won't hurt my "land".

[csziggy]

3. How about a "bottom thirty" (meaning my thirty acres of woods at the bottom of the hill)?

The "top thirty" is the other half of the farm on the top of the ridge with the barns, storage building, house, pastures, and riding arena.

I think I qualify as rural!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. If you have 60 acres you qualify as landed gentry of an estate, my friend

[csziggy]

5. Up until 1999 is was a working horse farm

With no employees, just my husband and me. It did NOT feel like being gentry, more like being a slave to my horses! All that work caught up with me, though and after a whole bunch of operations I am no longer capable of working the farm. A family has leased it and they get to do the work.

Now I do feel like landed gentry! I am a lady of leisure doing my needlework and watching the horses from the comfort of my easy chair.

[MicaelS]

6. If you have an outbuilding that you store stuff in..

Regardless of it's size...and you call it "the barn" you're rural.

[dr.strangelove]

9. If a loft is an apartment in a converted factory, you are urban

If it is a second floor in that outbuilding, you are rural.

[MicaelS]

10. If you have a garage apartment...

You are rural.

[LynneSin]

7. If your neighbors run a meth lab you are definitely out there in the Boondocks...

just saying!

[dr.strangelove]

8. well

I am as rural as can be, but I can not afford more than the 2 acres I have. About a fifth is a nice lawn, the rest is woods and in the spring, a trout brook. The lawn is well maintained. Wish it were more weed free, but I do my best. Not sure I agree on this one.

I say if you own a pick-up and a chain saw, and have used the truck to haul trees that you have cut/trimmed yourself, you are rural.

If you know what someone means when they say "Stihl or Husqvarna" you are rural.

If you have a barn, regardless of size, you are rural.

[hedgehog]

11. As long as you don't rake the leaves that fall in the woods, you're rural!

I like your definition of using the pick-up truck to haul wood.