It seems people think that city life is the place to live but country life has a wonderful aspect to it with its slow easy going ways. here in the country we eat great homegrown foods and breathe clean air and drink clean water. Oh we don't pay for water. We also have much security in hard times because we help and know our neighbors. Many are farmers and grow tons of food. I just can't understand why people want to live in the city. Ironically many city people come to the country for vacation. Sheesh we live in vacation land 24/7/365 and wonder why the city people are working so hard trying to upmanship their neighbors with McMansions and expensive cars. Oh well life is good here and myself all i can say is i sure wouldn't mind a partner out here in hillbilly land. yeaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaa

PS: When it gets so tough in the cities people will soon be flocking to the country just to survive.. But when you do come come with a positive attitude and one of giving and helping and we don't do lazy here

Wellll.... I wouldn't go as far as country 'bumkin'...

I live out in the 'sticks' (wooded areas in WI). Living further away from cities is far better so long as you don't mind driving 45 minutes to go grocery shopping and the closest gas station is 13 minutes away.

The city (... like 50K people) life isn't bad, but theres one thing I just cant stand about any city. Theres so much light in a city at night from signs and street lights that on a clear night you can only see 1/5 of the stars.

But, try getting 10Mbps download speeds in the sticks. just not gunna happen.

I grew up in a small town in Wyoming. Population 425. There were 17 in my graduating class. That's small. However, I only go back to visit. I prefer a medium size city.

I live in a town of 8,920.  Which is part of a larger city of 105,594. Which is part of an city of 583,776, Portland, OR.

I did live in Seligman, AZ.  Which is a really small town on Route 66.  But I like the big city.  Especially when I had to drive 100 miles one way to work. 

I think Hillbilly is another word I wouldn't associate with myself.

It's just one of those things I guess. Never could completely like Country Music. I don't drink Budweiser. I don't own cowboy boots. I don't own a John Deere. I don't like NASCAR. My dog and wife hasn't left me (gotta pick on the hicks once in a while... and the bad grammar was intended).

It always strikes me as odd when I meet someone who's lived in Wisconsin all their life and so has their entire family yet they have a Louisiana 'drawl' in their accent.

For some reason when someone uses the term Hillbilly (especially), country bumpkin or hick I always think of country music type people (extreme would be Beverly Hillbilly'esk).

I would be a city slicker living in the woods I guess.

The population per square mile for the county I live in is 1-10 people per square mile (in the northern section of WI).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wisconsin_population_map.png

I live in a rural area and enjoy it.At this time i have no intention of moving to town.

I`m out in psychohillbilly deliverence country. Look up the golers on youtube, that`s about says it all, except we didn`t have dilaudid , crack,  and meth, back then. Ahh the good old days.  It`s not so bad, keep `em scared and they`ll leave you alone, mostly. The worst are the roving theives ,and the local gossip circles which just invent new rumours when they havve nothing to say about you. Sometimes i miss the anonymity of the city. But the forty acres makes up for that.

Hey wait a minute.  I like NASCAR ( Go Jimmy  ), country music, and beer.  My dog and wife left me.  I had a pair of cowboy boots and a John Deere ( OK it was a lawn mower, but still ).   

I'm not sure that either of those terms apply to actual people or even small groups of people. I've never heard of a bumpkin or slicker used by anyone I've met. I live between St Cloud and MPLS. This is the start of the true 10,000 lakes regions. This is the area where the 20's-30's Gangsters held a truce and vacationed. I'm not very far from the supposed area John Dillanger buried his money. There is a very rich history to the area. We have of course the Gold Coast where families summer cabins are literally twice the size of an average house.
You start your car with the intention of driving a minimum of 10 miles to the nearest gas station, but one of those directions also will get you on the interstate system.
My average internet spd is about 12Mbs, but again, I'm just down the road from the 'Gold Coast'.
I don't wear a 'cowboy' hat, mostly because I'm a Horseman, not a cowboy. The bars all around here have Hip-Hop to Tammy Wynette on the juke boxes. And anyone who has that Louisiana drawl in there voice is either about to fall off their bar stool, or watch to much TV about southern living.

But what I like the most is that whether walking or driving, you know it's a local cause they give you the 1-4 finger wave when they drive by.
I don't have to know them, because they are already my neighbors and it's a given that neighbors help neighbors. Even if I'm walking the back roads I may not see maybe one or two people go by, but its reassuring that if you were viciously attacked by one of the many dangerous animals they let run loose around here, sooner or later someone will be coming by. Maybe not for a day or so, but neighbors are like that.

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Now that I think about it, Bachmann is a country hick and Pawlenty is the big city guy who doesn't know how to fish. Timmy would admit to that, but Bachmann is of the opinion that she is quite smart, but I have never met anyone who thought she was. Graduated from high school, but really, just what is it that she has done? For someone else? And t-paw will tell you he never raised taxes, but he did put in some very odd fees on things that worked just like taxes. But as a governor, what did he actually do with our money? He doesn't know either.

In my country the government is trying to PAY people to move to the countryside... and they aren't really moving...

I love the city to me it's where everything happens. But it may be because I grew up in a really dense city (where buses are usually packed full at 3 a.m. even though they run every few minutes to a maximum of 20), so anything less than that just completely bores me out... I can appreciate going to the countryside for a holiday and it's a nice change, but I definitely would not want to be in the countryside for too long.

Well i ain't no redneck and yes i do like some country music. I have a gun but no bullets. Well the ones i have i found when i moved the old log house. Yes i do not have running water inside but i have lots outside Yes i eat great like a hard working farmer i am. My neighbors don't drink because 90% of them are either amish or mennonites. I do have a drink once every couple weeks. No i do not make moonshine YET! Yes i can put my belly up on the table (not from beer i hate it) but when i stand up it moves to my rear. I'm a hillbilly because i love the country and for no other reason. I do not mean bringing in the city to the country but living like they did half a century ago. I will never ever live in a trailer but i did live in a camper for 2 months while i fixed up my 1820's home. I had to run the squirrels out that had taken over this house for 20 yrs. Now its all put back together and its like walking back in time when you enter here. I do burn firewood and my toast on a stovetop toaster. The extra charcoal is good for the liver to naturally filter out impurities. I hope this gives people here a better idea of what i think a country bumpkin is.  Oh i hate nascar and TV's and sports and think they are a total waste of fuel, time and energy. However, i doubt i will ever give up my telephone or internet. Unless i find the right soulmate who keeps me in the hay 

Quote from: apple pie on August 07, 2011, 02:30:52 PM
In my country the government is trying to PAY people to move to the countryside... and they aren't really moving...

I love the city to me it's where everything happens. But it may be because I grew up in a really dense city (where buses are usually packed full at 3 a.m. even though they run every few minutes to a maximum of 20), so anything less than that just completely bores me out... I can appreciate going to the countryside for a holiday and it's a nice change, but I definitely would not want to be in the countryside for too long.

yea the city is ok to visit once every 6 months to see family but other than that i want to get the hell out of the city as fast as i can

I'm a city slicker that lives off the map right now

Rural areas bore me to teats... sure I see the scenery and it's sometimes pretty... but nothing ever happens. At least in cities: people are all doing something. There isn't enough noise in the country... such to the effect that I sometimes wake to the silence and have to investigate the house to see if everyone's alright.

Only thing I'll miss about the country is my dog, who might as well be a fox what with her appearance and activities and even 'bark' when she rarely does.

Quote from: M2MtF2FtM on August 07, 2011, 02:42:03 PM
yea the city is ok to visit once every 6 months to see family but other than that i want to get the hell out of the city as fast as i can

Well, I was born in city A and now live in city B.

People who usually live in city A, can't stand city B and usually wants to get the hell out of there as far as they can.
People who usually live in city B, can't stand city A and usually wants to get the hell out of there as far as they can.

So I guess it's not just a city-countryside thing

PS It took me about 10 years to get used to city B

Haha! sounds like the people who live in Mpls and St Paul.   

Out here a traffic jam is a tractor with 4 cars behind it.

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Country girl. The nearest real city is an hour and a half away.

Got a nice garden, and about 20 chickens.

Country life is nice.

Redneck here!  I hate country music but I love space and quiet, with a garden and chickens like Cynthia.  I like having a big yard to mow, and critters running around, and the sound of cicadas in the day and crickets at night.  I like the sky to actually get dark so I can see the stars.  I'm rather out of my element at the moment, having moved from my small home town to a big city.  Perhaps not that big in the scheme of things, but it's much too big for my liking.  I'll be glad when I can finally move back home.

Both, from SanFran and Oakland, to rural, hee-haw (population 511, Salute) Iowa.  Thanks, I'll take the city, particularly these cities (SanFran/Santa Rosa).  Isolation is nice, but its' also dangerous.  And I like having a world-class opera, ballet and symphony, and a couple of good clubs for rock/jazz.  The food is awesome, mostly local/organic.   I need the ocean (I don't understand how people can live without one, beaches are natures most perfect gift).  And Santa Rosa is in Sonoma County, which is mostly rural.  Our number one and two cash crops are marijuana and wine - and both are about the best in the world.  Only France can really rival our wine, and even then...

I'm surprised I didn't see this thread earlier.
I currently live on the edge of a well spread out rural city of 80,000.  It's a nice enough place, but any support services are in Melbourne 2 1/2 hours away.
In two weeks I will be moving to Hobart which is about three times the size, and will have access to a lot more services, entertainment, restaurants etc.  Due to it's layout and location it is not far to the bush if you want to get away from the city for a while.  There is also the river and ocean, something I have missed.
Best of both really.

Karen.

population 550, 3 miles to nearest town (population 7,000), 30 miles to nearest city (population 250,000) its about 30ft from the edge of my garden to the nearest field

i love the countryside, cities make me nervous