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sorefeet

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67. I find Nebraska interesting

Sat Feb 2, 2013, 10:53 AM

Feb 2013

I worked at the power plant in Sutherland for a few months. I have been checking on realestate there and there are some really nice rural places for unbeleivable cheap prices. Lots of fixer uppers. I'm in rural Montana, only a post office and they are going to shut it down soon. I love it here but real estate is high. There are hundres or thousands of old farmsteads all over this state but the long time owners refuse to sell or rent. So the mice and elements just erode perfectly good homes. But that is just the mentallity of old school Montanans who there great grand daddy homesteaded the ground from the gov. for free.

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DU POLL: I'm just curious, do DUers live in an urban area, suburban or rural area? [View all] RKP5637 Feb 2013 OP

Manhattan NY, the rural part. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #1

Cool!!! RKP5637 Feb 2013 #2

Ha! And what borough would that be? :) nt babylonsister Feb 2013 #3

No I joke, because my building has no elevator and I live on the 4th floor in a 5 story building. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #24

You must be in great shape!!! nt babylonsister Feb 2013 #58

I am for now but I'm always one broken leg away from being confined inside. Crutches + stairs = No. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #89

We live in the ultimate bedroom community..every housing tract has sidewalks and... Tikki Feb 2013 #98

All the way north in Rural Manhattan BDavinciNY Feb 2013 #28

Howdy fellow NY'er! I'm down south in rural East Village closer to Alphabet City. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #29

Well Buddy BDavinciNY Feb 2013 #56

You must be somewhere near my daughter. PotatoChip Feb 2013 #118

I used to live on Indian Road in extreme upper Manhattan . . . markpkessinger Feb 2013 #30

That is EXTREME upper Manhattan. Very interesting area. Like part of the city that lies in a forest. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #33

Right opposite the prettiest spot in NYC. Smarmie Doofus Feb 2013 #132

Indeed! markpkessinger Feb 2013 #134

Sometimes these kinds of polls are ambiguous. Jenoch Feb 2013 #4

Yep, agree!!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #11

Extreme rural ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #5

It must be very peaceful! RKP5637 Feb 2013 #20

Its also a tad dangerous ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #46

Sure sounds it! Some of the people here live way out and tell me RKP5637 Feb 2013 #48

We bought it when we moved back to California after retiring from Federal service ProgressiveProfessor Feb 2013 #51

The best of all possible worlds ... DreamGypsy Feb 2013 #6

Sounds beautiful!!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #10

We like it... DreamGypsy Feb 2013 #54

That is beautiful and gives one a really peaceful feeling just looking at the picture. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #68

Five minutes from downtown Anchorage Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #7

That should do it! lol n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #14

The Philly suburbs can be a little of all three. nt onehandle Feb 2013 #8

Yep, that's an interesting area! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #13

So are the Detroit suburbs etherealtruth Feb 2013 #62

Semi-rural community... Earth_First Feb 2013 #9

Kind of like where I grew up. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #12

almost exactly my setup. rurallib Feb 2013 #110

I grew up on a farm. Silver Swan Feb 2013 #15

I've pretty much always lived in suburbs. I like cities, but some are a bit too intense for me. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #18

Kind of ambiguous. bluedigger Feb 2013 #16

Ohhhh RKP5637 Feb 2013 #17

Quit laughing. bluedigger Feb 2013 #23

That's great! I love Denny's!!! Always have had a great meal at Denny's! RKP5637 Feb 2013 #25

Suburban union_maid Feb 2013 #19

I've always been concerned as I get older of being too far out. There's always something to RKP5637 Feb 2013 #21

Just moved back to the city. yewberry Feb 2013 #22

I haven't been to Seattle in about 15 years. I hear it's changed some, more built up. Puget Sound, I RKP5637 Feb 2013 #26

Oh, yes, Seattle has indeed changed. yewberry Feb 2013 #34

A block from Boston MannyGoldstein Feb 2013 #27

I lived there for years! Loved it! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #36

I don't know how to answer that. Le Taz Hot Feb 2013 #31

Interesting! The US is so varied, makes it nice! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #37

South Philadelphia. MrSlayer Feb 2013 #32

Yep, a familiar area. Haven't been there in years, but Phila was our destination for some shopping. RKP5637 Feb 2013 #38

Studio City.......Not a city, but close to a city.....the city, Los Angeles.. busterbrown Feb 2013 #35

Interesting area. It always seems sooo expensive to me. I used to go to Manhattan Beach for RKP5637 Feb 2013 #40

Beach communities are nice, but very cocomo Jo’s like. But then I guess its all about the water.... busterbrown Feb 2013 #43

Suburban, but in the City of Los Angeles. My area is kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #39

Sounds like an interesting area!!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #42

It's not. It's the San Fernando Valley, lol. kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #101

Now that sure livens things up a bit!!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #102

Oh and then there was the time that the underground electrical vault kestrel91316 Feb 2013 #122

Wow, never a dull moment! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #124

Pasadena here! n/t PasadenaTrudy Feb 2013 #96

Downtown Portland Lizzie Poppet Feb 2013 #41

Hippies? RKP5637 Feb 2013 #45

Houston - 4th largest city in the US Justitia Feb 2013 #44

I've never been to Houston ... no reason why not, it somehow just RKP5637 Feb 2013 #47

Ummm up on the continental divide 2naSalit Feb 2013 #49

That sounds just right. truebluegreen Feb 2013 #66

We laugh and say we are semi~rural because we have acreage...we are suburban.. Tikki Feb 2013 #50

Urban, my area of coverage is city hall...and the sticks. nadinbrzezinski Feb 2013 #52

In a National Forest, 30 miles to the store and a town. Coyotl Feb 2013 #53

I'm jealous!!!!!!!!!! Smilo Feb 2013 #55

Beautiful!!! Sounds wonderful!!! RKP5637 Feb 2013 #71

Working class in holly hill Florida...I guess that's an... rppper Feb 2013 #57

Across from a Pakistani refugee camp in Kabul. cbrer Feb 2013 #59

Rural. The Northeast Kingdom cali Feb 2013 #60

Thanks for the info. and the link. It must be just incredibly beautiful and peaceful. I loved RKP5637 Feb 2013 #74

The 'burbs of coastal Los Angeles County. nt Raine Feb 2013 #61

Extreme Suburbs FreeJoe Feb 2013 #63

On a farm newfie11 Feb 2013 #64

I find Nebraska interesting sorefeet Feb 2013 #67

Yes things are cheaper here. Go right across to WY or CO and things go up newfie11 Feb 2013 #121

I lived in NE when I was a child Mz Pip Feb 2013 #78

Well we do have indoor plumbing but newfie11 Feb 2013 #120

The People's Republic of New Haven CTyankee Feb 2013 #65

My father grew up in Westville. His parents moved to Cheshire Jennicut Feb 2013 #72

what was his street? CTyankee Feb 2013 #76

I need to ask him, his family lived in an apartment. Jennicut Feb 2013 #93

interesting history here in New Haven... CTyankee Feb 2013 #97

I put urban but.. ananda Feb 2013 #69

Coos Bay, Oregon! SammyWinstonJack Feb 2013 #70

I have a friend that lives there. Her hubby taught art and now just paints and sells his work. appleannie1 Feb 2013 #81

Depends how you define rural. I'd say borderline suburban/rural SWTORFanatic Feb 2013 #73

Yep, I should have had that as a catagory. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #77

There are lots of farms around but I live 5 minutes away from a town with 10k people. Also the SWTORFanatic Feb 2013 #79

I grew up in a semi-rural area. There were lots of farms around, but then where we lived had about RKP5637 Feb 2013 #83

the cold cruel city. KG Feb 2013 #75

Rural pocket on the Oregon coast. Faux pas Feb 2013 #80

North Joisey... Benton D Struckcheon Feb 2013 #82

Yep!!! So many think NJ is all built up and everyone lives on the Turnpike, and that is just so RKP5637 Feb 2013 #85

Rural....in northern PA. The Pennsylvania Wilds livetohike Feb 2013 #84

Absolutely beautiful!!! When I was a kid I used to love it when my day used to take us on day trips RKP5637 Feb 2013 #86

Good memories! There is a lot to see and do. If our Governor Corbett manages not to livetohike Feb 2013 #109

An urban village-type area within the Minneapolis city limits Lydia Leftcoast Feb 2013 #87

We were thinking of moving to the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. We were up there this past summer RKP5637 Feb 2013 #112

What if you sleep in a suburb & spend most of the rest of your time in the city? nt patrice Feb 2013 #88

LOL ... Maybe a "Sleep-burb Work-burb." n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #91

then you reside in a suburb and commute to the city bettyellen Feb 2013 #105

It's hard to find a good answer for me based on that gollygee Feb 2013 #90

Actually, I live in a van down by the river. BlueJazz Feb 2013 #92

Rural now, Left2Tackle Feb 2013 #94

A small town that was a suburb 100 years ago. Jokerman Feb 2013 #95

Bethany Beach,DE SteveG Feb 2013 #99

That's a really nice area! We were thinking of moving there at one time. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #100

We vacation there! PennsylvaniaMatt Feb 2013 #129

Virginia Beach, Virginia raidert05 Feb 2013 #103

You can ask to have your trial moved to another location if its gotten too much publicity. undeterred Feb 2013 #104

LOL !!! RKP5637 Feb 2013 #114

NOVA n/t godai Feb 2013 #106

Del Ray, Alexandria -- Virginia I can't really vote in the poll, here is why: Raine1967 Feb 2013 #107

Urban/Suburban tammywammy Feb 2013 #108

Same here. YoungDemCA Feb 2013 #111

Nice mix. No group is dominant. nt bluestate10 Feb 2013 #113

I was surprised. I didn't know quite what to expect, but it's RKP5637 Feb 2013 #115

Suburb of SF sakabatou Feb 2013 #116

K&R !!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #117

I passed, While on DU. I have lived in Manhattan, NY. Alamogordo NM, and now New Orleans... Katashi_itto Feb 2013 #119

Message auto-removed jayfox122 Feb 2013 #123

I like rural areas, much of my family grew up in rural areas. n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #125

Rural in the middle of N.M. womanofthehills Feb 2013 #126

It sounds very peaceful and calming! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #127

I marked rural but I'm actually only 3 miles out of the local town, 40 miles from Chicago. riderinthestorm Feb 2013 #128

Yep, that's nice when you can have both!!! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2013 #130

Rural - Cambria County, Pennsylvania PennsylvaniaMatt Feb 2013 #131

I live 12 miles from the nearest town dog_lovin_dem Feb 2013 #133

Urban overseas davidpdx Feb 2013 #135