Urban vs Rural

[SabbathWolf]

Born and raised in Las Vegas...so that is about as urban as it gets.
Lived all over the world for 20 years in the army.
Retired and now live on 30 acres in the country on the Kansas/Missouri border.

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I'm over an hour drive to an actual "city" but there are a few small towns the size of an Indian Village or something that are closer.
Gas station, a mom & pop grocery store and a café' or two but that's about it. Oh yeah, also a mom & pop small little hardware/lumber yard.

I can shoot guns out my back door, launch all the fireworks I want, dance naked around a bonfire while howling at the moon and sacrificing some goats, ride horses and 4-wheelers, etc...what ever I want really.
I'm surrounded on all sides by cattle and horse ranches.

My area has zero Police Dept. service or protection at all.
You can forget all about calling 911....
We have a "county" Sheriff and 2 or 3 Deputies, but that's it, and I never see them except once every blue moon just by chance.

 

[dajowi]

Rural for me. It's a 15 minute walk to the gun club where I'm an RO and have access to both indoor and outdoor pistol ranges whenever I want.

 

[RoboDuck]

Im rural although we do have neighbors within a half mile on each side.

 

[SFsc616171]

I live in one of those 'everybody moved across the river to G.O.O.D..' The suffering town has about 80000 folks, and on March 15, 2012, gained the official title of 'Majority Welfare Town'. The old 'northern city of here' highway, is a two lane road. To me, as one who has lived a cosmoploitan lifestyle for much of my adult life, this place is 'Mayberry I and II'. Is it far enough from the parent town for Zombie/SHTF/WROL? There are three river-bridged arteries connecting them. No other bridges for at least ten miles, either way. I believe that if notified, the cops are able to make sufficient chokepoints. The parent town has one public range, capable of revolver-caliber rifle. The 'compound', as the news folks would call it, is a hill-top multi-domicile rental complex. The keep, as I call it, can be held. Lastly, we have a natural moat between the keep and the bridge, called the swamp, and yes, it is populated with 'gators.

 

[skoro]

I'm urban now, but hope to be rural by this time next year, if circumstances permit.