Urban vs Rural

2 miles from a town of aroud 1500... It has a gas station and a workable grocery store. 6 miles to the nearest Walmart, 30 miles to anywhere that has things like lowes or Home Depot. Almost 100 miles exactly from my driveway to Springfield, MO, Batesville, AR, Conway, AR or Springdale, AR. My nearest neighbor is a farm hand who owns his trailer house sitting in the old water melon field by my house to take care of the turkey barns on the other side of him. 2nd nearest is my mom down in the big house abut 1/4 mile away for the crow and 1/2 mile for the car. Plenty of room too shoot safely if I can convince the cows to stay on the other side of the woods. I live on the top of the hill though so shooting rifles out my back door unless I'm aiming for the waterline of the pond behind my house is probably a bad idea unless I'm intending to send a bullet down the hill to borrow a cup of flower from the guy that lives a mile or so behind me... Yea I reckon that's rural enough.

Just moved from a place where I only had 2 acres and could throw rocks at about 3 of my neighbors if I wanted too. Luckily my buddy owned a bit of land about 2 miles away and the forest service range was only 25 or so. It was 12 miles to a 24 hour gas station and 40 miles to a grocery store there though. I just don't do larger places for a home well, I get enough city life at work..

I'm within 15 minutes of three towns, 2 of those towns offer gas, one a pizza joint and one groceries. I am about 20 minutes from a normal small town and 30 minutes to a super walmart. I'm about 40 miles from austin tx.

I do have a couple neighbors close by but within 10 acres. Other than those it's a few miles og nothing.......but a few oil derricks. But all in all pretty secluded. Driveways about 2 1/2 miles long. I just wish the dirt would grow a garden here! Rock hard clay something

Hick town here... Voted city/suburb.

Looking to move to "in between" sometime soon.

In between. 40 miles out of one city, 45 miles to another, and five miles to the closest town (population 1900), but right on a relatively large lake (3 miles at it's widest and 7 miles long). Also directly across the road (a county road) from 3200 acres of a pristine natural state wildland area.

We shoot clay pigeons from my front porch:


Tinpig

I live in a forest on a mountaintop in BFE with a town of 4k one-hour away.
No neighbors in sight and the only lights at night are about 10 miles to the west on the rez. Life is quiet and there is always something to build or repair.
Have been here 20 yrs and if I ever make it back to the city it will have to be in a gated community with an HOA. I could never again tolerate the suburbs and cities with the crap one must contend with.

We are about 14 miles north of Tucson.

I grew up quite rural. I have lived quite urban. I now live 20 minutes from metro or desert where I can shoot whatever I want.

Urban, but I really hope to be able to change that soon (1-5 years.) BTW, I would consider any small town (5000ish people) 30 miles or more from a big metro region (75,000 people) rural.

As urban metro environments go I live in a smaller one, about 1.7 million people, but it is a tride and true city (actually a collection of cities, towns and villages). My home and work are right in the center of it. There are people coming and going, living their lives, working, conversing, conducting business, relaxing, playing and sometimes fighting and robbing, 24/7. I have property outside of town when I need to get away and will probably retire there - of course by the time that happens "town" will have grown out to the property I suspect.

Rural here

You forgot "in a small town".

Rural is just 5 minutes down the road, but I'm on a 1/2 acre surrounded by other homes.

49north.... Your place sounds awsome... Old Time Hunter.... sounds pretty good too... hermannr... Ditto..

In between, I think. My neighborhood is +600 home on +-3/4 acre lots. My neighborhood is one road in and one road out. The woods are around 300 yards from my house go for miles. The closest store of any kind is over a mile away and the next is another four miles. The closest "city" is 15 miles away. So I think I would be considered in between.

I don't even clasify where I live as a city, maybe a community. There is about 250 people here and a person can shoot out the front door, the back door, it don't matter. There is a 'city' about 30 mins away with a pop of 5000.
Don't get any better than this. People let their 12 and 13 yr old kids drive to a little country store and it ain't a problem.

kenken

Town of 170 population. The last 7 deer to be brought home have come from within 2 miles of the house. 75 miles from Billings MT, 45 to Cody, WY

Vivo in CONUS. Way out in BFE so far you can't get there from here? No pavement that is my secret!

Rural, but 15 miles from a city of 50,000.

Fairly small town (with "no discharge" ordinances, unfortunately) about an hour away from Pittsburgh. But in 15 minutes or less I can be in the country.

Have 7 acres. Fifty miles to Cody, WY and 125 to Billings, MT. Those are the closest gun stores.

I'm between a city and suburb. I can get to a shooting range in 20 minutes. I grew up in the country, and it had a few perks, but I just can't imagine living so isolated. I need to be around people, and my job requires proximity to a international airport and I visit hospitals which means I'm in populated areas all the time. The further away I live from people, these time I get to be home. What kind of job can you have living way out in the country? I mean I get farming and all, but you can't farm a lot of areas, and not all people living away from town are farmers. I don't mean that to be a smart ass question, but an honest one. I don't know anyone that doesn't work in a city. Heck, I don't know anyone that owns an acre...

Didn't vote, because I'm urban half the time and rural the other half.

I'm less than 10 miles outside the nation's capital, so urban it is. That lovely expanse of flat ground known as the I-495 Capital Beltway is less than one mile away.

I wouldn't mind a more rural setting someday, or at least move to a metro area with a more laid-back culture. DC is definitely wound up! My ideal would be a rural property with a somewhat-reasonable drive to work/church and relatively easy access to a city. When I lived/worked in Richmond, several people I knew lived in the country just west of the area and commuted in. You can pull that off in a relativey low-cost, low-traffic area.

Right on the edge of urban on the northwest corner of the Denver Metro area in the smallest county in Colorado. Unfortunately, the ranch where I grew up is about 750 miles SSE.

Suburbs. I was born and grew up in the suburbs and enjoy having everything within easy access. It's only minutes to most places I want or need to go, and it's great to have the option of several places when looking for something I want. I can just head out to the hardware store without it being a major undertaking.

There are multiple gun shops and places to shoot, the closest being about 8 minutes away. I have the luxury of having a good friend who recently purchased a home in the boonies about 40 minutes away, and we shoot a few times each summer/fall on his property. I do enjoy those trips more than range trips because it's so much more casual and we usually make a day of it, having dinner and catching up.