Do you live in a urban, rural, or suburban area?

[mvd]

Poll question: Do you live in a urban, rural, or suburban area?

My town has only a few thousand people, but it's within 30 miles of Philly. So I'm calling my area suburban.

[Kali]

1. rural...

nearest nieghbors are 2 miles away, although the damn interstate is just 1/4 mile.

[mvd]

2. BTW..

I've always been a suburban person. Before moving to the Philly area, I lived in Germantown MD (which is a suburb of D.C.,) and Frederick MD (which is between Baltimore and Washington.)

[Inchworm]

3. Not a Burger King for 40+ miles

I'm going with rural

:)

[Critters2]

22. When I was in Iowa, the denomination asked us to boycott Taco Bell

Easiest boycott I ever participated in. The nearest Taco Bell was an hour and 15 minutes away. Yep, that was rural.

[geardaddy]

4. Urban baby...

That's the only place I can live. Although Minneapolis has a lot of green and blue in it with the trees and lakes.

[mvd]

5. Yes, I've heard Minneapolis is a pretty, clean place

Harsh winters there, but summers bother me even more now.

[geardaddy]

7. Yep, summers are hot here

and the winters are becoming less harsh.

[no name no slogan]

8. Hopefully this one won't be as bad as last

but I'm not counting on it. In fact, I bought a second air conditioner for my living room, because I have a feeling the one in my bedroom won't be enough.

[grace0418]

6. Urban. Very Urban. Smack dab on the north side of Chicago. Although I may soon

be moving to Evanston (The Suburbs). I never thought I'd live to see the day. Evanston is okay with me though because the el runs there and it's near the lake.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

9. Urban.

[wildhorses]

10. rural --

although i am only 5 minutes from a major interstate interchange:shrug:

[no name no slogan]

11. Urban gorilla

I live in a high-density inner-city neighborhood, bordering downtown, which is/was home to the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Wellstone and Garrison Keillor. It's somewhat upscale in places, yet is still home to many students and working people too.

[BarenakedLady]

12. Rural

When the wind is right, I can smell and hear the cows.

[bigwillq]

13. The 'Burbs

:)

[Xithras]

14. Suburban/rural interface.

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.

[KG]

15. in the heart of the cold, cold city.

:hi:

[EFerrari]

16. Urban but in the most pastoral part of the city - between

the park and the beach. I have to get on a bus to remember this is a city sometimes.

[catmandu57]

17. Small town pop4000 something

trying very hard to become either a burb or bedroom community.

[EstimatedProphet]

18. It really doesn't fit into any of those categories

[mvd]

26. A middle sized place, then?

[EstimatedProphet]

30. Middle of middle...

[sarge43]

19. Rural

People: approx 900

Deer: 645

Moose: 18

Bear: 11

Black flies: 44 bazillion

[huskerlaw]

20. Urban

[Critters2]

21. City of 18,500 90 miles from Chicago

Our mayor desperately wants this to become a suburb. He never met a big box store or a McMansion he didn't love. He rolled over for Wal-Mart like they had some scary info on him. East of here is burbs, west of here is rural. I never go east if I can avoid it.

[NewWaveChick1981]

23. Suburban.

:hi:

[mitchum]

24. I live in a college town where there are deer and raccoons in my backyard...

but I can drive 3 miles and hear (or play) avant garde music performances.
I dig it.

[SPKrazy]

25. Urban....

:spray:

I swear it is considered urban

but it is a city of 80K

:rofl:

[greatauntoftriplets]

27. I live in an urbanized suburb.

That is less than two miles west of Chicago.

It's a great town. Approximately 14,000 live inhabitants and 590,000 dead ones. There are lots of cemeteries on the south end of the town. Happily, I live on the north end. I did look at some condos that overlooked one of the cemeteries. Too damn depressing.

[Renew Deal]

28. I live in the one true suburb

Long Island

[KamaAina]

29. Yes

those three options pretty much cover all the bases :P

If you must know, it is the most isolated urban center on Earth: