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.






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..

no lawnmowers for me here..

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.

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.....