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31 (32%) |
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Suburban | |
27 (28%) |
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Rural | |
37 (39%) |
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1 (1%) |
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JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)babylonsister
(171,066 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)60 steps to my door. At least twice a day. Every day. There's been a rumor for the past 2yrs that we may get an elevator. But so far its only a rumor.
babylonsister
(171,066 posts)JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)is walled off ...BUT in our part of town, up the hill, there are no sidewalks or street lights.
We pretty much get free reign around here..land use, and all...because the city has never
honored their so-called commitment to give us sidewalks or even street lights and we
call them on it if the city complains about something here.
Hope you, at least, have lights in your hallways and up the stairs.
Tikki
BDavinciNY
(95 posts)in very quiet and bucolic Washington Heights!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)BDavinciNY
(95 posts)I love coming on Down South to the Village! Its a very artsy, interesting rural area that I visit quite often unlike the real South (Except Hampton Roads Area in Virginia!) You should come up North some time we got some good things here!
PotatoChip
(3,186 posts)She's very close to St Mark's in the E. Village... not far from NYU and Astor. Looking forward to visiting her in April. Fun area for young people like her!
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts). . . right near the Columbia University rowing team's boathouse. Funny thing is, even most Manhattanites have no idea there even IS an Indian Road in Manhattan!
JaneyVee
(19,877 posts)Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)Inwood Hill Pk. Where the East River meets the Hudson with the big blue Henry Hudson Bridge in the foreground and the Palisades and NJ in the distance.
Love that spot.
Edit.... oops. That's the HARLEM River at that point. Or Spuyten Duyvil , as the purists would call it.
markpkessinger
(8,401 posts)And Inwood Park is probably the only spot in the five boroughs that still has original, old-growth forest remaining. I enjoyed living up there in many ways. I didn't always enjoy the rather long walk to the subway or to a supermarket, however! I live in Hell's Kitchen these days.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)My wife and I both grew up rural. Her parents are still rural, my father is now suburban. We own rural property with a rustic cabin (ie. no electricity or running water.) Our sensibilities are still rural, however. (And I work in the city.)
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)30 minutes from the cops, miles from neighbors.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Neighborhood dogs are coyotes and the cats cougars with some snakes thrown in.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)similar. I can see where you really have to be careful.
ProgressiveProfessor
(22,144 posts)Backs onto BLM land and has a private dirt road to get there. Its out in the middle of nowhere. Prior owner brought in phone and power so its not off the grid.
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)...6 miles out of town, 60 acres, fields, trees, & wildlife.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)if you consider a city of 290,000 or so urban.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)I chose urban because (it is urban) ... the inner ring "suburbs" are urban areas.
Earth_First
(14,910 posts)Town/Village of 3500 that's 15 minutes from the essentials...
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)Silver Swan
(1,110 posts)I moved to a big city after college. I lived in the city for four years.
I lived in a close suburb for thirty years.
Now I live in a far suburb.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)bluedigger
(17,086 posts)I'm three blocks from the center of town, but there are only 25,000 people in the whole county (2,000 sq. miles) so it doesn't feel very "urban".
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)We got a Denny's.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Now, I just need a gas station too!
union_maid
(3,502 posts)Been living in the burbs since I was 11. Was born urban, though, and the older I get the more I wish I could get back to a more urban place to live.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)do in the city. Often I wish I could just flip a switch and be one place or the other. lol
yewberry
(6,530 posts)Very mixed feelings about it!
We were living on a fairly rural island in Puget Sound but recently moved back to Seattle. Whew, huge change.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)loved it there!!!
yewberry
(6,530 posts)It's a wonderful place but all of the gentrification is squeezing out the authentic Seattle-ism in most neighborhoods. Criminy, I used to love it here. Now we're bowing to the condo overlords!
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)So, almost urban-ish.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)I live in a city of half a million surrounded by farming communities so we very much have the rural mindset.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)Inner city rowhouse.
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(67,109 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)Never was in love with L.A. but downtown L.A.is beginning to surge into one of coolest places in the country. On a scale of 10 its at a 4 as to where it is at developmentally. They are keeping the facades of all the old banking institutions and businesses and slowly converting them into the coolest Condos, Restaurants, indie
stores etc.. I swear Id move there in a second if I had the money.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)business ... was in downtown LA a couple of times, but that was about it ... That's nice to hear about the development being done. It's great IMO when the old facades are kept.
busterbrown
(8,515 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)fully developed and has been for many decades. Homes built in the late 40s are still found in abundance (they make great litle fixer-uppers), and apartment buildings tend to date from the 60s and 70s.
It's more urban than suburban, probably, but we don't have any office buildings over 10 stories anywhere nearby, and not many of those.
It's not NYC, it's not downtown LA, but I think of it as urban anyway. Technically it's suburban.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)Nothing interesting happens here, though it got a bit dicey a couple of years ago with my apartment neighbor running around threatening people with a knife.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)not 20 ft from my apartment bedroom exploded - but fortunately the manhole cover stayed put. If it had gone up and come down, it would have blown through my roof and could have killed me or my cats (manhole covers are 150lb+ of cast iron.
And then another time somebody drove over the fire hydrant, also just 20 ft from my bedroom, and we had Old Faithful going here for an hour.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)<Eric Cartman voice> Hipsters! Hipsters all around me!!
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Justitia
(9,316 posts)I've lived urban & suburban, prefer city life these days.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)never happened. I'm suburban now, but probably going to move in a little more urban.
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)10 miles to the nearest town of about 1200 and 100 miles one way, 75 miles another to get to a hospital or city. Love it, got bears and elk and all of almost everything you could imagine in the wild mountains... except a lot of people, that's the part I like best. And I ain't scared of the dark neither!
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)in a neighborhood with really big yards and smaller homes.
The Tikkis
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)The air is very clean here.
Smilo
(1,944 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)rppper
(2,952 posts)....urban area....part of the Daytona Beach metroplex!
cbrer
(1,831 posts)So you need a category for diseased filth combined with abject poverty.
cali
(114,904 posts)The Kingdom encompasses 55 towns and gores, with a land area of 2,027 square miles (5,250 km2), about 21% of the state of Vermont.[3] The city of Newport is the single incorporated city in the tri-county area.
As of 1997, 80% of the Northeast Kingdom was covered by forest.[4] 59% was northern hardwood, 29% spruce or fir.
The Northeast Kingdom has been listed in the North American and international editions of "1,000 Places to See Before You Die", the New York Times best-selling book by Patricia Schultz. In 2006, the National Geographic Society named the Northeast Kingdom as the most desirable place to visit in the country and the ninth most desirable place to visit in the world.[5]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Kingdom
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Vermont when I used to be there visiting.
Raine
(30,540 posts)FreeJoe
(1,039 posts)I live and work in a 100,000 person master planned community. Where I work is a little faux urban area with a dozen 10 story buildings and one 30 story building.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)In Nebraska panhandle. 60 miles from WY border, 30 miles from CO border. Yep we are very rural.
sorefeet
(1,241 posts)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.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)We retired here from the Black Hills (SD).
We wanted more land and loved the friendly people in this area. We traveled through often going to CO for dog shows and that's how we discovered this area.
Mz Pip
(27,445 posts)The first farm had no indoor plumbing except for a pump. It did have electricity though.
My dad farmed a couple of smallish family farms. After 7 years of drought he gave it up and we moved to Chicago.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)The drought situation here is bad. We have had maybe 4 inches of snow total for the winter. Summer will be interesting
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)in a quiet middle/working class section called Westville, on a street with great diversity of ages, religions, ethnicity and sexual orientation. I would never leave but alas my house is getting difficult as we age so we will probably sell and try to find an apt. nearby.
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)when he was about 9. He met my Mom in elementary school and they dated in high school. By 1970 they were married and then had my brother in '72 and me in '75. I got married and moved to Terryville. But Westville holds a special place in my heart...
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)I'm 3 blocks away from the Yale Golf Course...
As you probably know, Westville has its more affluent section, which is where Joe Lieberman lived. A lot of bigger homes, very pretty. My neighborhood has smaller homes, mine built in 1940, colonial style, a nice starter home nowadays but back in the day a family of four would typically live there. We have a significant number of city workers who live there since some of them have to live in New Haven. So my neighbors typically include teachers, school administrators, police. AND the mayor, which kinda helps in getting snow removal by the city done efficiently...
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)My mom's family came from NYC so Cheshire was very different for them both. Just lots of farmland back in ths 50's.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)ananda
(28,862 posts).. I'm seven miles northwest of downtown. It doesn't feel suburban, but it might be.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)appleannie1
(5,067 posts)SWTORFanatic
(385 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)SWTORFanatic
(385 posts)street I live on has a school and all houses (no farms).
On the other hand, some people in rural areas may live in the middle of Montana with nothing but a pitch black sky at night off a dirt road :p
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)10k people, but go out aways and it was all farms with some houses sprinkled in between. It's too late for me to add that category now, but it definitely should have been there.
KG
(28,751 posts)ok, it's in florida so it's not very cold, and it seems to be pleasant enuff, but it is a city within a sort of 'metroplex'.
Faux pas
(14,681 posts)Funny, at this moment in time this poll is almost an even 3 way tie.
Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)...which makes it the NYC 'burbs, in a house that's a survivalist's dream when I look at it: wood stove where you can get heat & cook if there's no power, a reservoir a couple blocks away so that if even the running water goes you can bring that stuff back and boil it on the woodstove if necessary to make it drinkable. And woods surrounding my development so we've got plenty of fuel. Kinda neat.
The only thing left would be to teach the dog to actually catch those squirrels it's always chasing if we actually have to live this way. That might be tough...
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)far from reality. There are lots of really neat places in NJ to live!
livetohike
(22,144 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)driving around Pennsylvania. It's a place I've always liked.
livetohike
(22,144 posts)totally ruin everything before we vote him out of office.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)I can walk to anything I absolutely need, including a food co-op, a hardware store, two coffee shops, a library, a bakery, an organic/local meat market, an ice cream parlor, a liquor store, and six restaurants. OK, I can walk to the drugstore only if the weather is nice and I'm feeling ambitious, but if I'm in the mood for walking that much (30 minutes), I can also walk to the bank and a movie theater and a bunch of other stores and restaurants.
When I was planning to leave Portland (everyone I was close to had either moved away or died), my relatives urged me to come back to Minneapolis. When I found out that Tokyo (my first choice) was out of the question, due to visa restrictions, I told the relatives that I would move back if and only if I found a walkable neighborhood with affordable apartments.
And here I am.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)looking around the Battle Creek area of St. Paul ... but decided the winters would be too cold. It's a really nice area and we liked the people. It felt very comfortable.
patrice
(47,992 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)bettyellen
(47,209 posts)isn't that what a lot of of suburbanites do?
gollygee
(22,336 posts)I guess suburban would come closest, but I'm not near any big cities so not quite. I'm certainly not rural or urban.
BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Left2Tackle
(64 posts)but I used to be a city dweller. And I don't wanna ever go back!
Jokerman
(3,518 posts)Since the city completely surrounds us now, we are technically an urban enclave.
SteveG
(3,109 posts)Small city urban. Town goes from about 1500 in the winter to 23 thousand during the summer.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)In 2010, we stayed in Sea Colony and we loved it! It was just as nice this year when we stayed "in town", across from the Bethany Arms Motel.
raidert05
(185 posts)undeterred
(34,658 posts)No, wait, that's in real life.
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(67,109 posts)godai
(2,902 posts)Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Having lived on Long Island and the Hudson Valley as my *growing up* thing... Suburban and Rural the epitome of both imo.
I've lived in NYC and Atlanta and I can say that where we live is perfect blend of Urban and Rural-- Some call it suburbia, but it doesn't feel that way. Long Island was suburbia.
Everything is right here, including the peace and quiet that rural living can provide but also diversity that urban living is inclined to provide. I like the quiet, but I also love hearing the planes taking off from National Airport.
I consider this area a hybrid. I see the Washington Monument from my house, but we have a butcher in the neighborhood. It's the best of all worlds.
tammywammy
(26,582 posts)I technically live in a suburb of Dallas & Ft Worth, but the city has 300k+ residents. I live in an ethically diverse area of the town.
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)I live in a suburb of San Jose, CA, but it's got over 100,000 residents and is a city in its own right. (And it's very ethnically diverse).
bluestate10
(10,942 posts)RKP5637
(67,109 posts)roughly in thirds. Also interesting is it's almost 1/3 rural too! And not all urban like the R's want people to think. The areas are interesting as are the comments ... Yep, it's a very nice mix.
sakabatou
(42,152 posts)Go 'Niners.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)Katashi_itto
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(67,109 posts)womanofthehills
(8,710 posts)I'm 11 miles from a small town of under 2 thousand people. I have a great view of the Manzano Mts. and lots of pinyon, cedar and cactus on 40 acres. I've been off grid for 10 yrs but just connected my system to the grid. Clean, clean air - I love it.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)I'm in a most excellent area of rural outskirt within commuting distance of a major metropolitan area. I love it.
(well, maybe not the weather so much but the location IS perfect).
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)Not a big fan of the town I currently live in, but there are other towns in the county that are pretty nice!
On the plus side, Cambria County is really the only part of PA between Harrisburg and Pittsburgh that is remotely Democratic. President Obama carried the county in 2008, but lost by 17% in 2012 because of the "War on Coal" propaganda. Despite that, Democrats hold all of the local positions.
Now we just have to work to get rid of Governor Corbett in 2014!
dog_lovin_dem
(309 posts)and at least three hours from the nearest city on the 42 acres where I grew up in Crawford County, Illinois. It's a blue county, but there are quite a few liberal minded democrats in the area as well.