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Hello guys and dolls, and welcome to Nero's Pointless Poll of the Day!

In which type area do you live?
I used to live in an urban area, but am now firmly planted in suburbia.
What about you?
Where's your crib?

Nero

London, UK

PDX

You can find me on C.L. baiting the trolls.

They despise me. I distract them from their fun.

I've lived in the burbs, but I hated every moment.

This is a hard question, for some reason.   ???
I live in a subsection of a large city, not in the heart of the city, but where I live is sort of on the edge of its own cityhood.  In fact, if I walk out my front door, in front of me is a pretty urban area, but behind me is a large area that could only be described as a suburb.

I live on the edge, but not really in either. 

OMG.  It has only just this moment occurred to me that where I live is metaphorically reflective of my whole life. 

Wow.    8)  I wonder if I need to move?

we live in the suburbs, a terrific area with plenty of vegetation, pure air and no kids >:D

orange county california, suburban central!

I live in a city of 130,000 an hour from Denver. Folks here think they are urban, but by my reconning it is as rural as it gets.

QuoteI live in a city of 130,000 an hour from Denver.

Greeley or Fort Collins?

Frankfurt, Germany (http://www.tripadvisor.com/LocationPhotos-g187337-Frankfurt_Hesse.html)

I kind of live in Surburbia...

My Villa backs onto the desert, but they have started building behind this now.I live about 20 mins drive from the largest City.

Buffy

Quote from: Nero on July 05, 2007, 02:41:06 PM
Hello guys and dolls, and welcome to Nero's Pointless Poll of the Day!

In which type area do you live?
I used to live in an urban area, but am now firmly planted in suburbia.
What about you?
Where's your crib?

Nero

Likewise, and it's a blessing in that I no longer needed to carry a gun, after that move.

rural... and not rural ENOUGH if you ask me, I can look out my windows and see houses. ^*sigh* I have often mused that to get the population density I desire around my house that I will have to live on a big ship in the middle of the ocean. ... I have yet to decide if I wish to give up my mountains and trees and wildlife to achieve that however.


The best neighbors are chewmoos! (or forests, presuming no two legged visitors)


^*sigh*

Did you know people move out into the back of beyond, and then cut everything down and plant grass? .... Like what is the point of living in a wooded area if you are going to make it look ... well.. civilized.  ^*gag*


Heh.

Urban.

I live in the middle of Philadelphia.

I guess it's suburban  ???

After determining our sexual and shopping activities and our eating habits, you're not trying to stalk us now, are you?   Hmmmmmmmmmmmm?    Nero?

I guess suburbia is the closest match, though there are plenty of farms, open fields and woodlands here too (way north of Philadelphia).

It's a really pretty area, kinda the best of both worlds...

~Kate~

All of you who live on the fringe of suburbia, look at the forests and farms closely, cause they'll be gone yet. Everybody wants the space, the problem is that there is just too many people for that and as soon as we move in, we disturb, destroy what we seek to appreciate; there is no real solutions to this anywhere on earth.

Best thing is to live in a dense urban settings so we can keep as much greenery possible as close as possible.

Quote from: Keira on July 10, 2007, 05:16:50 PM

All of you who live on the fringe of suburbia, look at the forests and farms closely, cause they'll be gone yet. Everybody wants the space, the problem is that there is just too many people for that and as soon as we move in, we disturb, destroy what we seek to appreciate; there is no real solutions to this anywhere on earth.

Best thing is to live in a dense urban settings so we can keep as much greenery possible as close as possible.

Yeah.
        We had small patches of woods here in my town and over the past 5 years they've cleared them in order to put houses between existing houses and behind existing houses.

 Kailua Kona, Hawaii! Rural but well on the way to urban. There are tractors everywhere. It`s like orange county in the 50`s jumping to the 90`s in 3 years time. So Sad , lots of presurved land and protected land is being bought out by developers. Land that was never to be biult on, ever. Ancient graveyards being destroyed on the whole hush hush thing. Thats our corrupt country though. It`s always been like that.
    Keira is rite. but thats a dream though.

In the beautiful Parisian suburb of  Neuilly sur Seine.

I live in a city that's on an isthmus, that's a strip of land inbetween two lakes.

I live in South Dakotastan. This actually wasn't too bad a place for TG people until the Hummer yuppies and rednecks from the South and the coasts moved in......ugh......I don't know how anyone can stand living around them. Thankfully Minnesota is just over the border.

(Gonna have to file for refugee status in the PRM = People's Repulbic of Minnesota)

I live in rural Georgia. It's about as fun as it sounds.  :(

I have almost always lived in suburban or rural areas.  I could not stand living in a crowded city.

In Illinois I live about 50 miles or so from Chicago (Des Plaines).  In Missouri I lived about 70 miles from St Louis.  In Colorado I was about 30 miles from Denver, now in California I am about 2 hours from Los Angeles, out in the high desert.

I have lived in 12 states from coast to coast, so this list is only a few of them.

Sarah L.

rural dc  aint a good place  :-\

urban

rural. we finally have DSL in this area now...

Urban, The Hague, Netherlands

I live in a San Bernardino county suburb that's close to the LA County border.

Suburban little blue collar town.

Right at the very edge of the last suburb on my side of Hobart (pop 250,000),  backing onto bush. :)

On my farm :).


Still winter here as you can see.

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Well now you know how I live :).

Quote from: Kimberly on July 09, 2007, 07:40:24 AM
rural... and not rural ENOUGH if you ask me, I can look out my windows and see houses. ^*sigh* I have often mused that to get the population density I desire around my house that I will have to live on a big ship in the middle of the ocean. ... I have yet to decide if I wish to give up my mountains and trees and wildlife to achieve that however.


The best neighbors are chewmoos! (or forests, presuming no two legged visitors)


^*sigh*

Did you know people move out into the back of beyond, and then cut everything down and plant grass? .... Like what is the point of living in a wooded area if you are going to make it look ... well.. civilized.  ^*gag*


Heh.

That is so true. I hate city folks coming to the country and making it look like suburbia..

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I'm sure it's lovely, but that looks like my idea of hell.

Quote from: Pica Pica on March 05, 2012, 05:21:35 PM
I'm sure it's lovely, but that looks like my idea of hell.

Its an antique house restored to its simpliest beauty without totally remaking it into something new. These days primitives (antiques) are worth way more than a antique refinished to look new. My house also is filled with the same. You couldn't find but maybe 3 other similar homes in all the world brought back to life and so old. Mine was built in 1820.

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Nice place Amazon.  $ legged lawn  mowers are much quieter. :)

Quote from: Jonie on July 11, 2007, 02:33:40 AM
I live in a city that's on an isthmus, that's a strip of land inbetween two lakes.

I love the word isthmus. :)

I live in an urban area. I've always lived in places that were pretty much rural or urban, and suburbs put the fear of god into me, but I am trying very much to understand that we are all human.

Quote from: Amazon D on March 05, 2012, 05:31:07 PM
You couldn't find but maybe 3 other similar homes in all the world brought back to life and so old. Mine was built in 1820.

I've lived in 5 houses older than that, and worked in one building four times older than that.

Have to say though, you've done it up in a kind of country idyll kind of way. I do hate the countryside though. Give me chimneys and people bustlng around and the laughter of another family in the door next to me and the screech of train breaks and weird exotic food and bowls of veg stacked outside cornershops and kids running around with grandparents calling them and teenagers standing on street corners flirting and the weird tabernacle church ringing with out of tune hymns and the old sofas dumped on the pavements and all the signage and words and images everywhere, and graffitti with more words and images and birds flying amongst it and foxes and cats dodging through it and everywhere the happy, moving, chaotic hub of lives lived. Give me that... and I'm a happy bunny.

I live in a farmland area of Virginia. Nice and quiet here. I don't know if I could stand busy city life.

Quote from: Pica Pica on March 06, 2012, 12:18:45 PM
I've lived in 5 houses older than that, and worked in one building four times older than that.

Have to say though, you've done it up in a kind of country idyll kind of way. I do hate the countryside though. Give me chimneys and people bustlng around and the laughter of another family in the door next to me and the screech of train breaks and weird exotic food and bowls of veg stacked outside cornershops and kids running around with grandparents calling them and teenagers standing on street corners flirting and the weird tabernacle church ringing with out of tune hymns and the old sofas dumped on the pavements and all the signage and words and images everywhere, and graffitti with more words and images and birds flying amongst it and foxes and cats dodging through it and everywhere the happy, moving, chaotic hub of lives lived. Give me that... and I'm a happy bunny.

Well i didn't mean my house in age but in it being kept up just enough to be livable and not fall apart and frnished with the same. Most people who get old homes restore them to perfection which basically is like taking an old antique and sanding off its past.. .

Hey yea i love visiting cities once in a blue moon but i do like to see the stars at night and the moon and not have to worry about all the crazies who come out when it does..

Quote from: Amazon D on March 06, 2012, 02:33:58 PM
Well i didn't mean my house in age but in it being kept up just enough to be livable and not fall apart and frnished with the same.

Oooooh, I see. Well that is rare, and sort of special.

For me, one of the great joys of London is how the past cannot possibly be sanded out, even with explosives, fires, bombs and town planning...the past can't help bleeding through. That everything is a palimpsest of all that has happened before. It's all bubbling and bursting through - so you can live in the present as a continuation of the past. Certainly many people of the past were not prissy about their past, the way they chopped their buildings and such about. The people of the past seemed to live in the present more than the people in the present do (certainly in reading Pepys, I am shown how much more in his time he is compared to me and mine).

As for the crazies....in the countryside, their is no escape.....

Quote from: Pica Pica on March 06, 2012, 12:18:45 PM
Give me chimneys and people bustlng around and the laughter of another family in the door next to me and the screech of train breaks and weird exotic food and bowls of veg stacked outside cornershops and kids running around with grandparents calling them and teenagers standing on street corners flirting and the weird tabernacle church ringing with out of tune hymns and the old sofas dumped on the pavements and all the signage and words and images everywhere, and graffitti with more words and images and birds flying amongst it and foxes and cats dodging through it and everywhere the happy, moving, chaotic hub of lives lived. Give me that... and I'm a happy bunny.

This is exactly how I feel.

Quote from: Felix on March 06, 2012, 11:59:39 PM
This is exactly how I feel.

Yea but Alex your a alabama hick who gets high smelling the polution from big city life   >:-)

Now me i am from suburbia and i love the smell of dead skunks along the roads and freshly spread cow manure over newly planted corn fields ahhhhhhh breathe deep uhhhhh uuuhhhh that smell can't you smell that smell

Quote from: Amazon D on March 07, 2012, 05:16:01 AM
Yea but Alex your a alabama hick who gets high smelling the polution from big city life   >:-)

Now me i am from suburbia and i love the smell of dead skunks along the roads and freshly spread cow manure over newly planted corn fields ahhhhhhh breathe deep uhhhhh uuuhhhh that smell can't you smell that smell

Correction, I'm a north georgia hick. ;D When I was in alabama I only lived in the city.

Some pictures

Quote from: Pica Pica on March 07, 2012, 04:15:40 PM
Some pictures

I can't see linked pictures on this site any more. Idk why.

I visited a friend in the suburbs last week. Beaverton, if any locals are reading this. I got so lost and was so amazed. Everything was far apart, the houses were too big, the yards were too big, the streets weren't gridded out, the buses were ancient and didn't run much, and really the whole situation was terrifying.

Lol I have a very limited skill set.

We're a suburban kind of rural. We have crappy internet service but we're going to have houses up and down this road in a few short years. We live 20 minutes from a liberal island city in the midst of a sea of conservatism. The very conservative town we live near convinced us not to have kids and subject them to that school system. (I'm a woman married to a woman.)

Calgary, Canada.

I mean, out of all of Canada, I think Calgary is one of the most rural urban cities. Why do I still feel like moving to somewhere even more rural? :C

I live in the country...i wanna move

suburban

I suppose I live in a suburb. Not in the smackdap middle of the city but not in the countryside either.

Quote from: Tossu-sama on September 08, 2013, 01:38:37 PM
I suppose I live in a suburb. Not in the smackdap middle of the city but not in the countryside either.

same here

Amy

I live in the middle of flipping nowhere :/

I'm getting scared. I've lived in Portland Oregon for sixish years and we stand out less here than we have anywhere else, but we're still seen as such freaks and I want so badly to be normal.

I thought we'd be alright here. This place is so progressive.

I'm trans and I guess I'm gay but that's only because we define that by gender (I always liked men and as a man that's a different life than as a woman). I had a child at a young age, and it's just the two of us. We're atheists I guess, but that's only a big deal when people think it is. My daughter is half autistic and half ptsd (to greatly simplify it) and very, very loud.

We're not wanted here. People who share any particular attribute don't share the others, and this town isn't big enough to keep word from getting around about any given thing that happens within whatever community (gay, trans, mental health, autism, poverty, liberal activism, etc) and I'm too tired to keep up. I can't do spin and I can't play any part that will be visibly socially acceptable.

Anyway. I'm looking at NYC. I really really want to find a place where I don't stand out so much. Anywhere.

We've been in Portland longer than anywhere else. I've no hope for progress here.

While I'm living in Lansing, MI for school I'm from Detroit.

It doesn't get any more urban that the "D" :P

I live in a western suburb of Sydney, one which rapidly becoming a second CBD and building lots of high rise apartments. It'll probably be classified as urban in a few more years. Not sure how I feel about that. :-\

I live in a pretty rural/urban type area. I live in Buffalo, which is the second most populous city in New York.

I live in a small townish city somewhere between here, there and nowhere

I live somewhere in the north of the world. Town has under 900 people. I started out in a city of about 400k but I'm no longer even in that country. I like keeping myself more anonymous online, especially here and places like this.

I enjoy being far from any city. It's an hour drive to even reach the nearest cities, and they are very small.

Plus everyone is friendly and you can't drive past someone without them waving.

I live in what I like to call "pseudo-suburbia". We are anywhere from an hour to 45 minutes away from any major city, but they still talk about this town having a "Metro" area, (which it doesn't). It's the typical pocket of rich douchebags that try to make this stupid town look like something more than what it really is. If I could afford to live in an area in a major city that wasn't a dangerous, crime-infested rathole, I would get the hell away from here and never look back. This place is boring, dull and just plain sucks.

I have lived in all of these types of areas, but now, I live in the suburbs again.

I can't complain, I live in a quiet neighborhood, and no one complains even when I have to park my car in the cul-de-sac (the house is also in the cul-de-sac I don't like park in front of someone else's house or anything)

I live in a little village basically. Its sort of a town, has its own zipcode, but they closed our post office after it was flooded by a hurricane again a few years ago. Now I have to go a few towns over to get my mail since I don't want a mailbox in front of my house.  I guess you could sort of call it suburban, but it doesn't have that feel to it.

I live in the center of Athens
its pretty crowded so it is rather safe...
and its a beautiful city too...

I like it I wish Ill be able to enjoy it more on the future

I live on the countryside in Sweden. I have almost 10 miles to the nearest city(Helsingborg). Most of the year it is great. But during the winter it's awful because there is snow everywhere and there are never any vehicles that will plow the snow. On occasion we get so much snow that we can't get outside because it almost covers our doors completely.

I live in a western suburb of Chicago(20 miles) and I was born in Chicago and grew up in another western suburb about 4 miles from where I live now.

I think we're going to St Johns, an urbanish but way less dense than I'm usually okay with neighborhood of Portland. If we do, it will be through Home Forward (aka HAP/housing authority of portland), but even as a normal renter I was looking at going to either that area or south of Powell or Holgate soon because rents have skyrocketed since we moved here. If we go to St Johns we can easily access a huge woodsy park in addition to the rivers and lots of small parks, and there's some decent music and food nearby. Public transit and grocery store access there is not good.

I live in the 50s part of the NE quadrant of my city right now (where the river is zero/center and anything in either direction proceeds to higher numbers). We can walk downtown in about an hour, and we have access to lots of buses and grocery stores, but we're far enough out that there aren't sidewalks everywhere, and being close to the freeway means that many drivers are speeding and not expecting pedestrians. I don't plan to ever not be at least an occasional pedestrian.

Bonny Dundee in Scotland ^^

I'm on a top floor of a tower of flats, so I get to look out over the city at night and make many super hero references.

St. Louis suburbs

Grew up 7 miles outside a small town on one of my parents farms. 2 story pre civil war farm house on a 1oo acres. Best times of my life.

Currently living just outside of studentville.

Quote from: Fer on July 05, 2007, 07:27:12 PM
London, UK

Ooh, that's my second favorite place in the world! (Greece being my first, Tennessee being my third)

I am Jill of the Hill People.  Many places have I been, many things have I seen.

Well, I do live in the hills of Los Angeles.

A very rural little village in the rolling green hills of the northern half of England. Almost in the middle of nowhere - with no shops, leafy country lanes, acres of woodland, riding schools every fifty feet and where, if you listen closely on a dark, moonlit night, you may well hear the faint strains of banjo music.

In the land of Oz between harbour and beach, with cyclists, dogs and occasional storms.

Quote from: Sephirah on August 29, 2014, 04:52:46 PM
A very rural little village in the rolling green hills of the northern half of England. Almost in the middle of nowhere - with no shops, leafy country lanes, acres of woodland, riding schools every fifty feet and where, if you listen closely on a dark, moonlit night, you may well hear the faint strains of banjo music.

Sounds Idyllic, can I visit?

Quote from: LordKAT on August 29, 2014, 07:02:40 PM
Sounds Idyllic, can I visit?

I wish it were, lol. The place is lovely, the people... not so much.

But anytime, hon. I'll have the coffee ready. :)

Quote from: Sephirah on August 29, 2014, 07:10:55 PM
I wish it were, lol. The place is lovely, the people... not so much.

But anytime, hon. I'll have the coffee ready. :)

Got tea?

I live in a known urban city.. It's super awesome. I live next to a CVS so I can literally go in my pajamas if I need to buy something cause it's next door! :D

Besides, I can get around easily using the subway/metro even though I don't really have a need to navigate around.

A large well known seaside town in Lancashire

I live in a rural area. A small village on some sea cliffs.

The nearest hospital, bank, or major supermarket is thirty minutes' drive away. There is almost nothing here to amuse the average city person.

We get a lot of tourists though.

Rural, and I hate it. I wish to live more urban but suburban would be fine too. I'm a total city person at heart, and living close to nature as I do now only bores me half to tears. But I don't have the means to move where I want even remotely, so I just have to grit my teeth and bare with it for another 5-10 years or so...

On the outer edge of a town so small, it has only 2 stop lights, and I'm next to an abandoned cotton field.

Small town suburb of a major metropolitan area on the US east cost... nice quirky town with a very charming small town pharmacy less than 1 walking minute from my house.... last stop on the metro line. The area pretty much has everything except a good SRS surgeon... but there is some hope on the horizon...

Suburb of Richmond VA. Kind of not yet in the crowd, but not in the woods either. :)

In between two small towns.
Pretty much a hick.

The wrong end of the Rainbow

A suburb in Denver.

In a suburb.

I live in the burbs and it is 30 miles away to my support group. I wish I were a little closer to downtown.

In the mountains of Tennessee. Really nice town that has grown over the years. Not so small anymore.

Hugs  :)

Like Kimberly we live out in the sticks. Way out where the chickens hump the hoot owls.

That little piece between California and Washington. Not counting PDX, which is basically a suburb of Seattle.

Welland Ontario canada

         I chose suburban, SW side of Atlanta, but still have horse farms and cow scenery (500 acres just across street) so suppose would still be a diehard  Jeffersonian Agrarian! (ie: more rural) Sorry but positively despise "city people" . . . Just because you 'ave the WALK signal doesn't mean you can totally IGNORE traffic with yer music Walkman on!!

        Was browsing 'polls' this AM to get some topic/question suggestions. I have an original php web based CASS survey system (https://www.safetyclimatesurveys.org/) and would like to design and create a serious Transgender survey that incorporates what's called "lookback" - the ability to dynamically ask different groups of people specific questions based on previous poll responses.

Am interested in TG attitudes, living situations and depression. Will post more if interest, when I have more time!

Suburbs of South Los Angeles, CA, in a latino/black megahood, No, not east L.A., either, that's all latino.

A teeny-tiny fishing village, year-round population, including surrounding farmland, maybe 300.  When we go to town for shopping or services, "town" is one of three places, population 4000, 5000, or 6000, depending which one we go to.  So, really quite rural.

My trans services - therapist, HRT doc, support group - are in the city, an hour and a half away, population 400,000.

I'd definitely classify it as rural. It's the largest town in the county, but it's completely surrounded by farmland. Even the people who live in town could be seen as farm-folks. We have a walmart, and even a movie theater (only built around 10 years ago), but whenever someone wants to do any real shopping or eating out, they drive to Kansas City (and hour and some change away).

Washington D.C


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