Reply #14: Suburban/rural interface.

[Xithras]

I live on 3 acres, and my neighborhood is full of these ranchettes. We're in unincorporated county land, so we generally consider ourselves rural. Despite that, the "suburbs", consisting of cookie-cutter suburban stucco boxes is only 3/4 of a mile up the road one way. 150 yards in the other direction, the ranchettes give way to 60-100 acre farms and dairies. I actually have a small dairy across the street from me.

Technically, the area is called an urban interface zone. I'm 10 minutes from Costco and the freeway, 2 minutes from the city limits (1:30 of that being the time required to walk to and start my car), and 15 minutes from one of the largest shopping malls in this part of the state. Despite that, my property looks are rural and idyllic as anything you'd find in the ruralest part of the midwest.