POLL: Do you live in the city, a suburb, or in a rural area?

[ShaneGR]

I am curious what type of areas our membership lives in. Let me know.

350K live in my city, and the county has about 600K overall.

[LastKnight]

1. other- suburb of round 100k

[La_Serpiente]

2. In the City of Honolulu

about 350,000 people.

[bicentennial_baby]

3. Rural

pop. 18,000

[tedoll78]

4. I live in Austin..

but I actually want to live in a rural area. I'm beginning to hate the crowds, and now that I'm looking at real estate, I'm realizing that I can get a lot more for my money out "in the country."

[Eloriel]

24. Plus peace and quiet, and the stars at night

And oh yeah, no traffic.

Eloriel

[david_vincent]

5. More options, please

I live in a town. Not a city, not even a small city, and not a rural area because I live right in the middle of it. What happened to just plain towns?

[ShaneGR]

7. Edit

I added small town... I am looking for population levels.

[dawgman]

6. live in seattle city porper

[imwatchingem]

8. Rural area...

within six miles of a small city.

[HawkerHurricane]

9. I live in a suburb of San Diego

Which, itself, is a suburb of Los Angeles...Or would be if it weren't for the military bases.

[leftofthedial]

10. both 1 and 2 are true

I live in a (aaack!) suburb. (I hate it; my family loves it.)

This suburb has over 200,000 people and the main city has over 200,000 people.

[ShaneGR]

11. You don't live in a suburb then... you live in a city

A city, in this poll, is a municupality with over 200,000 people.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

26. It may be a city in the legal sense

but a collection of shopping malls, fast food outlets, and housing tracts is NOT a city in any real sense of the word.

[Spirochete]

12. Within a city

of about 150,000 people

[Amich]

13. I live in a small small town

My town has about 2,000 people,dog and cats:) The closest "city" is about 60 miles away. there is fewer then 10,000 there.

[newyawker99]

36. Hi Amich!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[GrapesOfWrath]

14. Annapolis Maryland

Population of about 35,000 is the closest town (I live about 5 miles east) but we're in Anne Arundel County which is about 30 miles from Washington DC and Baltimore. So... its considered part of their "metro area"

[mandyky]

15. I live in a college town with about 50K including students

We are not really a suburb, but we are about 40 miles from Lexington KY which is a little over 200K

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. Rural

We live in a small "village"...population 13,000 AND just happens to be the NEW HOME of the Chicago Bears Summer Training Camp.... We're about 55 miles south of Chicago.

[asjr]

17. rural

Population must be under 2,000. The town employer is a distillery. One grocery store, 2 restaurants, post office, and 10K churches.

[northofdenali]

18. The Fairbanks North Star Borough's total population

is about 82,000. That includes a major Army base, an Air Force base, and more land than most cities dream about.

The closest city is Anchorage a WONDERFUL 350 miles/6 to 8 hour drive away.

I love it.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

19. I live in the woods, the 'city' 35 miles away has 60k people....

I guess that's rural.

[kyrasdad]

20. Rural area with a cluster of small towns.

Added up, there is about 35,000 people in a 20 mile radius. 4 of us are Democrats.

[kittykitty]

21. Rural, bible belt.......

predominatly republican, south-central Pennsylvania, nearest town of about 20,000 about 20 miles away. But I like it.

[Lugnut]

22. Other.....

I live in a rural area about two miles from a small city with a population of about 10,000.

[supernova]

23. Rural but near medium cities cluster

I happen to be in a rural area, but altogether, there's about 300,000 people here in the area.

[lynndew2]

25. Suburb of a city thats around 500,000

KC...My city, which is many miles south of the KC/MO-KC/KS conglomerate reached 100,000 last year. I think the overall population in the KC metro is over 1 mil.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

27. In a city

I'm a confirmed city mouse.

In Portland, I was only ten blocks from the edge of downtown. Here in Minneapolis, I live in an urban village with lots of grand old houses from the early part of the twentieth century.

[lynndew2]

32. Cool My Apt. Is in a house built in1875

I cant use the fireplace cause its in the historical registry. But It is neat to live in a place that has a history.

[ryharrin]

28. Other-I live in a City of around 140,000.

Syracuse, NY. Great place, if you don't mind snow too much and you like basketball (Watch out for Hakim Warrick, just saw him play for the first time this season on tuesday, he could be as good as Carmello Anthony)

[Drifter]

51. Hey Syracuse ...

I'm orginally from East Syracuse, now living in Rochester.

Where are ya ?
How long ya been there ?

PM me if you wish not to shout it out.

Cheers
Drifter

[ninkasi]

29. Rural

about 14 miles from closest town, pop. est. 1,470. I love it, my husband absoluely hates and detests it, wants to move back to Helltown...I mean Houston. Since he's a sulker, we'll move back. We have 5 acres, our own well, are retired, I'd prefer to stay.

Either place will be conservative, with more churches than anything else, although Houston can probably compete with the ratio of "Gentleman's Clubs", massage parlours, and xxx rated movie rentals to churches.

I'd prefer to live in Austin, you'd have to know my husband to understand why I don't even suggest it. He's not conservative politacally, just...ah...well, difficult, I guess. Sorry if that doesn't make sense.

[Bridget Burke]

39. Big, Nasty Houston....

Does have more to offer than "Gentleman's Clubs" & massage parlors. Of course, whatever floats your boat!

There's pretty good "major" cultural stuff (Symphony, Opera, Ballet, Theater, Fine Arts Museum). Even better are the smaller cultural institutions--The Orange Show, Art Car Museum, Project Row Houses, Contemporary Arts Museum & The Menil.

We have a vibrant, multi-cultural population, with many festivals & excellent places to eat. Lots of Churches, but also Hindu temples, mosques, Taoist & Buddhist places of worship--& places where you can buy a mojo hand (never can tell when you might need one).

Of course, the traffic is dreadful & the weather is just now beginning the non-dreadful part of the year. But if you're going to be dragged here against your will, please try to check out the positive aspects. Also--in this huge metropolitan area, location counts. My neighborhood just north of town, represented by Sheila Jackson Lee versus Sugar Land, home of Tom Delay.

John Nova Lomax, music editor at The Houston Press, has called Houston "the most un-hip city in the South"--but he's still here.

[ninkasi]

44. Just saw your reply...

Actually, I was born in Houston, and lived there all my life til we moved to our current area, about 120 miles away. My husband and I have 4 grown children there, and 4 grandchildren, and it'll be nice to be closer to them.

I grew up on the North Side, went to Sam Houston High School, graduating class 1961...so my put-down was mostly a way of ribbing my husband. The country scares him. Too much silence, too far from everything, even though it takes less time to get there because there's no traffic. Thanks, though, for your defense of my home town.

[OBrien]

47. I live in the Heights

Been here not quite 4 yrs. Not real crazy about Houston, but it could be worse. It is always so much more bearable when summer is over!

[LibDemAlways]

30. I live in a suburb of LA - actually just over the

Santa Monica Mountains from Malibu. It might as well be Stepford. The men work in the entertainment biz. The women deposit the kids at school and then spend the day at the gym or the mall. The kids have their playdates scheduled well in advance so as not to conflict with dance, music, art, karate, soccer, etc. The local school just won "blue ribbon" status because the principal is a fanatic about high standardized test scores -- and provides financial incentives to the teachers of the highest-scoring classes.

For all of the surface affluence, this is actually a total wasteland. Gertrude Stein could as easily have been talking about this place when she said, "There's no there there."

Why do I stay? A paid-for house bought 25 years ago when the area was considered "affordable."

[SmileyBoy]

31. I live in a city of 100,000 people. Metro pop. is 185,000.

Fargo-Moorhead, ND/MN

It's in the transition "grey-area" from "town" to "city".

I know that 15 years ago, this was definitely a "town". But now, it's looking a lot more like a "city".

[Zorra]

33. On a beach

in Mexico. Nearest city is 100 miles away. Small village about a mile from here.

[elperromagico]

34. Small town in Arkansas

My hometown, Hot Springs, has a population of about 35,000. But it is an extremely important town, bringing in huge tourism revenues. It's also rapidly gaining recognition as one of the major art centers among small towns in the United States.

The town I was born in, Lawton, Oklahoma, has a population of nearly 93,000. The town I lived in for about two years, Malvern, has a population of approx. 9,000. The town I went to college in for two years, Arkadelphia, has a population of about 10,000. They don't even sell booze there (which was of course a huge disappointment to me).

[DrFunkenstein]

35. Tonight I'm Gonna Take That Ride

Across the river to the Jersey side.

'Cause down the shore everything's all right...

[ithacan]

37. small city of about 30K, "metro" area of about 100K

surrounded by beautiful rural area.

Very beautiful, a major university (Cornell) and college (Ithaca), wineries, lakes, gorges and waterfalls, hills, 4 hours to NYC 5 to Boston.

[Beaker]

38. Chicago

for now.

[Padraig18]

40. A very small town in a rural area.

My town has 2900 people, and our entire county (420 sq. miles) has 19,000. The nearest 'city' is Champaign/Urbana, IL, about 25 miles away.

Welcome to life in the Land of Lincoln. :hi:

[mmonk]

41. city

[Hep]

42. Not even all that sure

I'm told I live in a suburb, but it is one of the original suburbs. We've never considered it a suburb. Andyway, Durham has about 187000 people. I don't live downtown, but I don't live in McMansionland.

Here is a picture of my house!

[loudsue]

43. WAAAAAY country for the east coast....

The nearest town of approx. 7,000 is a 20 minute ride. My almost hubby just went out to feed the 7 dogs...naked as a jaybird!

The only humans (besides me) who knew about it were the ones monitoring Rumsfeld's spy satellite.

:bounce:I like it here!!!:bounce:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

45. The district of Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro city

You can't get much more urban than that except maybe by moving to Manhattan.

[ShaneGR]

50. Hey, I've been to Rio!

Stayed on Ipanema beach for a few days. We were also in Sao Paulo, Florianopolis, and these waterfalls on the Argentinian boarder (Foz De Guacu...spelling?)

[ibegurpard]

46. I live in a city of 95,000

With a metro area population of 130,000.

[Cheesehead]

48. Suburb of a city of 80,000 - metropolitan area 200,000+

A cluster of small towns/cities that have grown together and now conjoin

[IrateCitizen]

49. Currently live in an NYC suburb...

But want to move to a rural, upstate college town in the next few years.