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In reply to the discussion: The difference between urban and rural people is... [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)Hand County has 3,241 people so more than 2,500 The big county seat of Miller has 1,241 people.
That's urban?
Or how about the urban metropolis of Milbank, SD - 3,203 people. More than 2,500 in Grant County with 7,101 people.
The difference between those places, and a real urban area like Kansas City is
1. In Miller and Milbank everyone pretty much knows everybody else, or they feel like they do.
2. In Miller and Milbank and even in neighboring Watertown or Huron (my home town) or Pierre there is maybe one homicide every five years. In Kansas City there are two or three every week.
My rural cousins from Upstate New York used to call us City Slickers, but heck, even Huron, which once was the 4th largest city in SD and is still in the top 15, is not really an "urban" area. It is a small town. And many small towns are more like rural areas than they are like urban ones.