In what kind of environment do you live?

What type of setting do you live in?

  • Urban

    Votes: 81 17.3%

  • Suburban

    Votes: 225 48.1%

  • Rural

    Votes: 169 36.1%

  • Other

    Votes: 15 3.2%
  • Total voters
    468
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I live in an ex-trailer-park mini-town built on an old Spanish land grant, ten miles (more or less) from Mexico. The south side is run by Mexican gangs, the north side is working class and retirees. Lots of truck theft, B&E, and an increasing number of drug-related kidnappings. Smuggling is a way of life for many in the area.

The land is cheap, but there's a reason... .
 
Used to live in an urban area, moved to a rural community. 3-4 miles from town (500 ppl), but 10 miles or so from town (6000 people). Largest city is 65 miles east, west, and 72 miles south, all three with average populations over 40,000 people. Next largest is 150 or so miles north with 200,000 people. Mostly rural areas in West Texas and Northern Rolling Plains. Tactical situations present themselves with a long range rifle :)
 
Vern, you're for sure a redneck if the directions to your house in winter include, "Pull off at the wide spot and lock the hubs..." or "Walk up to the barn and fire up the tractor (don't forget to bring a chain)..."

Rural. Several acres, 3 miles from a little town with one stop sign (that doesn't get used a lot), 25 miles to a town of 15,000 or so, 100 miles from Seattle.

I think CC has a good point about the culture of an area. Mostly blue-collar and retired folks around here, scattered on 5-10 acre pieces of forest within about 2 miles of a minor highway, commercial and public forest land beyond that. Building up slowly, but still enough elbow room to shoot off the porch or do some blacksmithing first thing in the morning without bothering the neighbors. Fishing, hunting, and not enough crime to get in your way, usually.

Parker

Nice knives, Valkman - I especially like the ones with burl wood handles. Are they stabilized?
 
Does living underground with the mole people qualify as "other"?

The directions to my house are, "Turn off the paved road, drive 3.6 miles and turn off the county road, go 0.6 miles and turn off the common road, go a quarter of a mile, get out of the car and keep your hands in sight until signaled to come in."

I live on 185 acres of mostly woodlands with a small pasture for my horses and donkeys. Most people when they visit for the first time say, "How did you ever find this place?"
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That's just aweseome! :)
 
I bought this place (160 acres -- I added a bit later) when I came home from my second tour in Viet Nam. We used to go out and camp by the creek -- my daughters caught their first fish in the hole that the house now overlooks.

When I built the house, being an old Arkansawyer and remembering ice storms, power outages, and so on, I included a fully-finished basement with a wood stove. That's our survival space. In the last 12 month period (5 February 2008 to 27 January 2009) a series of natural disasters (tornado, blizzard, 100 year flood, Hurricane Ike and the Mother of All Ice Storms) resulted in us spending 31 days in the basement, using the stove for heat and Coleman lanterns for light.
 
Happiness is....

1. not being able to see any of your neighbors houses
2. living off a 900 ft. private road (at least until snow plow season comes).... especially when that road tees off of a sleepy little side street.
3. Letting the pooch run free with your greatest worry that he'll go tramping in the frog pond again.
4. Telling the kids to get outside and don't let me see you again until supper and having your only wiry be that they borrow momma's Tupperware to make caterpillar "habitats"
5. still having emergency services within a 5 min response
6. having tax free shopping at big box grocery an retail all within' 8 miles
7. Ocean beaches 12 miles away.
8. Mountains 2 hours away.
9. big city for ball games and shows just 1.3 hours away.
10. 7-1/2 acres to putter on ... with enough timber to heat the house for years.
11. Rod'n Gun club 3 miles down the road.
12. kids school 1 mile in the other direction.
13. UPS guy always brings treats for the pooch
14. Cat's have plenty of mice to chase and have managed to evade the foxes for some years
15. Mail carrier brings packages up to the house
16. bank branch manager opens the door for my wife, is on first name basis, knows our financial affairs intimately and watches out for me with timely tips....
17. code enforcement is reasonable and the zoning and building codes are 1/4" thick pamphlets.
18. volunteer fire department that takes pride in knowing their affairs.
19. shall issue state (see my sig line for state constitutions speak)
20. chief of police is an honorable and able man whom I respect.


Rural.... but not to rural :)

small town USA is a great place to live

now if we can just keep it a secret and convince all the Massachusetts liberals to stay home, life will continue to be great.

Oops! to late
 
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I live in a Suburban. Tried a Tahoe but it was too small. In this environment long barrel firearms are difficult to manipulate at best.
 
JohnBD - is that Monument Avenue? My neice used to live right on the park (Maymont? Mayfair? been awhile...) and I would always take a drive down Monument when I visited, just to check out all the houses I'd love to live in :)

I'm urban. I live on the 15th floor of a condo located in Alexandria just outside DC but "inside the beltway." Needless to say, I can't walk out onto my back yard and plink. However, on a nice day, when my windows are open, I can hear the gunshots from the outdoor police range that's not too far away. Vicarious target practice is better than nothing :D

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Small town (5000) Suburbanishly-Rural. Corn fields behind me. 2 AM you can go in the back yard and all you hear is the highway traffic some 6 miles away and can even hear cattle moo. I can still pee in the back yard as no one around to see me. Quiet. Low to no crime. Have had my CCW for over 37 years because I could. Seldom to never carry. Why?

If I could live my life again I'd go rural.
 
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Urban-Suburban...A bit more Urban though, because I'm close to the metro-city area...
 
" is that Monument Avenue? My neice used to live right on the park.

I think that's Boulevard, a few blocks from Monument. Odds are she lived near Byrd park, but Maymont is just around the road on the river. If there was a lake with a fountain in it, then it was Byrd.

If it was 100 acres with a mansion and a zoo, then it was Maymont. One heck of a city park.
 
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I'm 45 miles Northwest of Chicago. I live in what was once a small town, originally population was just 1,000 people, but now has grown to 8,000.

The Burbs are ever-growing out here, seems like people are trying to escape the City. Funny thing is that where I live right now, with houses all around, I used to hunt pheasent here as a young man. Of course that was three decades ago. Now, I must drive thirty miles West to be out in the so-called Boonies, just farm fields.
 
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