HOW RURAL IS RURAL?

[Gordoncourtney]

You live in paradise

Life near London

I got a 1953 Fergy tractor , a barn and a green pool on mine . Occasional squirrels a cat and a fox on my 1/3 acre plot we also get parrots in the trees I live 17 miles west of London Me at 81a gunny man trying to play banjo and paint Ha ha I recently got a Feldstuter 1853 , possible Jager. Nice 10.4 mm. ( 61, KT10 uk on google earth )

 

[waksupi]

I like your paintings, very Picasso-ish!

Life near London

I got a 1953 Fergy tractor , a barn and a green pool on mine . Occasional squirrels a cat and a fox on my 1/3 acre plot we also get parrots in the trees I live 17 miles west of London Me at 81a gunny man trying to play banjo and paint Ha ha I recently got a Feldstuter 1853 , possible Jager. Nice 10.4 mm. ( 61, KT10 uk on google earth )

 

[Coinneach]

Life near London

I got a 1953 Fergy tractor , a barn and a green pool on mine . Occasional squirrels a cat and a fox on my 1/3 acre plot we also get parrots in the trees I live 17 miles west of London Me at 81a gunny man trying to play banjo and paint Ha ha I recently got a Feldstuter 1853 , possible Jager. Nice 10.4 mm. ( 61, KT10 uk on google earth )

Your very own bit of secluded heaven mate, treasure it while you can.

 

[SOLANCO]

Own land? I paid cash for my acre with a house and outbuilding but I have to give the county a large portion of my income yearly or they will move me off of it and sell it to someone who will keep paying the taxes . We own no real property in this country, in one way or another we pay to stay on it. Taxes, insurances, utilities keep us in debt of a sort.

Local taxes not bad. School district tax is a disgrace. But they keep replacing school buildings with palaces. School board elections are always buried down ballot, never the whole board at once, and they receive zero news coverage. Yet only the feds can burrow in your wallet like the school district does.
It's for the kids. No. No it is not. Not by a long shot.

 

[IronHand]

Actually there is no place nice above the Mason Dixon line.

If you think that, then you have never been to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Truly God's country.

In other states people go out of state for vacation. In Michigan we just go to the U.P.

Ironhand

 

[Idaho_oldtimer]

It's about a hundred miles from here to West Yellowstone, but I never go there because it is more crowded than Black Friday at 6:00 AM. But, there is national forest and BLM within 10 miles and the South Fork of the Snake River is close. We have whitetails, mule deer, moose and elk. We also have wolves which dine voraciously on the elk unabated.
I guess it's rural, potatoes, hay, grain and cattle grown all around here.
I can go shoot the flinter on our place whenever the wind is below 40 mph.

 

[vintovka]

Rural is stepping out of your backdoor into a huge Jurassic park forest. The instinct to take a deep breath is overwhelming each time.

 

[BS2366]

Rural
Closest 4 towns with stores, food, fuel are around 10-12 miles from my house. 10 acres surrounded by Hoosier National and farm land. 6 miles to the highway.

 

[Marshhawk]

Rural
Closest 4 towns with stores, food, fuel are around 10-12 miles from my house. 10 acres surrounded by Hoosier National and farm land. 6 miles to the highway.

Many fond memories of the Hoosier National.

 

[Crockford]

Your RURAL, if your first thought was
" I bet that tractor will still run"

 

[Muley Gil]

Had a friend that like to say he lived so far out in the sticks, he did get the grand ole oprey till Monday

I live so fur back in the hills even the Lutherans handle snakes!

 

[okawbow]

I’m only about 5 miles to a 10,000 pop. Town. 12 acres mostly woods. About a mile to a paved road. I can shoot off my back porch if I want. I can hunt as soon as I step out the door. Surrounded by large tracts of the neighbors woods. I watch deer, turkeys, and lots of other wildlife out my living room windows. Took a nice 8 point white tail 150 yards from my back door last November. Took a turkey about the same distance this spring. We have a spring and a cistern for water, and solar for most of our electric. Life is good!

 

[Nazgul58]

By fall we will be in the 1700 sq ft addition to the farm house. 25 acres, very isolated, lots of deer. Have taken a good deer or passed on a shot every year for the last 6 years about 50 yards from the house. All woods and a hillside that makes things interesting.

Don

P.S. - Have all the necessary items to have my own Woodswalk when we get settled.

 

[Sidney Smith]

I'd call where I live "semi-rural". Lots of farm land (22 acre corn field right across the street, wooded property behind), but we are not far removed from modern conveniences like supermarket (2 miles away), 2 Walmart stores with 10 miles either direction, etc. Our street has 6 houses on it. We see plenty of animals. Had a doe just opposite our driveway 50 feet away from me the other night. I have a couple local public plots that I hunt within 20 minutes drive. Used to hunt a place ten minutes away but that spot went south.

 

[wiscoaster]

I live in an area where back in the day it was first platted for lots it was definitely considered "rural". It was way off the "main road" that connected the two nearest cities. These days it's definitely "suburban residential", and it's incorporated as a "village". Though some of the few folks that are here after all that time still consider it "rural". That being said, regardless of rural or suburban, it's not unusual to see wild turkeys pecking their way through yards, and even the occasional deer running down the street. There have even been reports of a coyote or black bear spotted in the area. And of course, eagles, hawks and very large owls swoop about overhead. The occasional coon or possum road kill doesn't hardly even merit mention.

I don't attribute that to the area being rural anymore; I attribute that to wildlife learning to live and survive in suburban environments. I really think they're doing quite well.

I just wish it was legal in "village" jurisdictions here in Wisconsin to shoot rabbits and squirrels, but I'd be arrested if I tried.