I dont really consider myself a country bumpkin but I'm from montana so i think that I would be classified as such in a bigger city.  I live in a town of about 100k people and I prefer it, but the countryside is not a long ways off.  Lots of farmland surrounding the city, sugar beets, corn and wheat.  I like how Billings is set up, but there doesnt seem to be much diversity here, which blows.  I'm moving to Missoula in a few weeks and it is more of a "hippy" town lol, I'll probably fit right in. 

Born and bred in rural Iowa. After I got out of school I lived in the metropolis of Oakdale, Iowa. You can look it up on MapQuest to see how small that is. I followed the jobs to Minneapolis, and I live in St. Paul now. I like the country, but I'm in the city by necessity.

I'm a city kid.
Just got back from a visit to a tiny rural town, however. While it was gorgeous and peaceful, I didn't like having to drive 20 minutes to find Tylenol at midnight. I like living half a mile from a 24-hour Walgreens. My head's just full of what-if's. I don't like being far away from things I potentially need.

I was born and raised in the city/suburbs, but I'm really a country/mountain girl at heart.  Someday, my spouse and I hope to have a place in the Rockies where we are pretty much off by ourselves, but still within a short drive of town.

So many dreams...all of them expensive. *sigh*

Quote from: Lucas Bann on August 07, 2011, 10:00:48 AM
hey I'm a hillbilly!  My home's out in the farm country and my second home is back in the hollas of southern West Virginia. 

So I am I! West-By-God-Virginia! Small town west of the capital and south of the Kanawha River. I my be a "Naturalized Texan", but that because I've lived here a while.. Live in the 4th largest city in the U.S., earlier developers left large tracts of forest standing and with several large bayous and creeks running through the city its sometimes hard to tell you are in a 4.5 million pop. area( county incl.).

Quote from: LivingInGrey on August 07, 2011, 10:30:16 AM
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

You've got some things mixed up here, Hillbillies don't wear Cowboy Boots, Cowboys and Kickers do! Next Hillbillies don't drink Bud, its Moonshine! Well I guess you might see a Allis-Chalmers tractor in Wisconsin before a John Deere...NASCAR, now its everywhere!

Southern Lousiana- CAJUNS! ACADIANS! FRENCH! Draw? Anyone here a Cajun?

Just some clarification of terms.

I like some aspects of rural life, but overall I'm much more of a city person.  I'm currently sandwiched between a city of about 100,000 people and a bunch of open space and mountains, and that works really well for me. 

use to be a country bumpkin (grew up mostly in a town of 500 something peeps), but I am a city girl at heart. The countryside is nice to visit, but I miss being away from the hustle and bustle of the large town/city and not to mention the convenience of everything within walking distance.

I'm out in the county between two small towns. Can't stand the city. Don't care for city folk who move out here and then complain about everything that isn't the way it was in the city they came from. (cars in the yard,etc...) They should have stayed in the city.
Love sitting on the porch playing my guitar or target shooting out the back door. Wife uses a 22 rifle and 45 automatic. I use 44 magnum.
Enjoy being able to see the stars out at night while walking up and down the road with no thoughts of running into a mugger.
I like having no crack houses around or meth labs.
Love the fields, fresh air (when they're not out with the honey wagon) and the wild animals.
The country is a blessing.

The down side of living out in the county (our location anyway)is that it makes an easy target for burglary with people coming down the highway. They can rob a home, hit the highway and disappear. Hence, the target shooting and having loaded guns in the house.
Also, not to offend anyone but my wife and I were raised around loaded guns and my children grew up with loaded guns in every room. They were taught gun safety and that combined with a good old fashioned butt whipping the psychologists disagree with instilled in them a respect and fear of their parents like we had. They never dared touch a gun until we let them. Oddly, none of them grew up emotionally scarred.
Also, we might have had cars in the yard the boys worked on but they never got involved with drugs like the city kids that have parents that are forced to have clean yards. Sometimes if you sacrifice looks your kids just might have something to do with their spare time when not in school or doing chores. Building hot rods and going four wheeling or target shooting or tipping cows sure beats seeing your kids in jail because the neighbor doesn't like the look of those trucks and cars out back behind the shed or in the field.
Just an after thought after posting above.
Ya, I couldn't live in the city.

Enjoy being able to see the stars out at night ... no thoughts of running into a mugger ... no crack houses around or meth labs.

I can see the stars at night, and even more if I go out to the Coast and it's not foggy.  Not as many as Iowa, but the sky is not devoid.  I've never run into a mugger, crime is highly over-exaggerated.  That there is more 'crime' in the urban regions then in rural areas by numbers is a function of population, if you do it per capita you'll find that non-urban regions actually have more violent crime.  The most violent places in America are in the rural South, not the urban Northeast.  I'm sure you don't have crack houses, nor do the places I live.  I have a brewery down the street, and are surrounded by the best vineyards and wineries in the world, and everyone I know just about grows their own smoke, that's as hard core as it gets.  The meth labs?  I think you're wrong.  Rural areas are much better places to locate these labs than urban regions because of the smell, the isolation and not having to worry about the kind of .  And I'll bet that again on per capita basis there are far more people on meth in those areas then in middle class urban ones.  City folk party with blow not crank.

Quote from: tekla on August 10, 2011, 12:10:32 AM
Enjoy being able to see the stars out at night ... no thoughts of running into a mugger ... no crack houses around or meth labs.

I'm sure you don't have crack houses, nor do the places I live.  I have a brewery down the street, and are surrounded by the best vineyards and wineries in the world, and everyone I know just about grows their own smoke, that's as hard core as it gets.

Semi-urban bliss California style!

Wow Del. I didn't know "cow pushing" was anything but a local activity around here.  Do the kids use "lemon guns" in the early hours of the morning too?  (shooting lemons out of gas powered bird-scaring guns).

Karen.

Born in Sioux City, Iowa, raised in BFE, Tennessee....
Sorry, but I can't say I really like it out here. I find it's far too close-minded and "cliques" that should only exist in highschool are imposed on the entire town...You don't fit in? You're the town's new entertainer. =A=
I even moved into downtown (which is only about a mile of civilization and still a 30 minute walk to Walmart down a long, empty highway) so I could be closer to food, since I have no transportation of my own.
I live on campus in a city an hour long drive from here during fall and spring. And I have to be honest, I prefer it there. And I still wouldn't want to even live there for the rest of my life. Then again, I suppose I'm a Global Studies major for a reason.
I want to live in Berlin eventually. I lived there for a month during study abroad, and in that one month I became more attached to my neighborhood than I ever did here.

Hi,

County,, through & through ,

Lived in many county place's   in the south isl of N Z . from a few 100 to under 5.000  people & have lived on the out skirts of 4 town's from the top of to the south of & east & west & know most of the city centers, plus groups of people as well. over 56 years with my Mum , & Jos & family of 5 of us , & travled to all of those places  since, & a few with  one of  our grandaughter's, doing camping & haveing some fun times.

We have in Waimate 160 groups clubs &  im involved with 4 & we interact with 5 others & if we dont know some one our members do. i do photography for our groups as well. two groups im in are women only ,

we have all we need here & im pretty well known ,    Timaru  has 38.000  1 / 2 an hour n ,  Oamaru has 16.000. 1 / 2 hour s ,   then ch ch ,  2 ,  1 / 2 hours north of us & dunedin to the south, 1,  1 / 2 hours .

Ch Ch =   Christchurch  were we had the earth quake's ,

...noeleena...

We have a town 2 miles away and there must be at least 30 people living there. Kinda too crowded for me so i am out here. Everyone knows everything about everyone and so there are no drugs and criminals are caught pretty fast. Most here are amish or mennonites and they would never steal or commit a crime. thats why i am here. I don't associate very much at all with the others around here many who just have hunting cabins. The few others are good hard working farmers. and they respect my hard work. No i won't make a fortune with my gardens but i will feed people more than myself and for that i have earned respect. Thats country life for me and not just a fake hillbilly but a wise one and a hard working one. A true hillbilly doesn't just sit around drinking moonshine. They are the ones who fought hard during the revolutionary war and turned mountains into homesteads with hard work.

I'm far from a country bumpkin, but I do live in a quiet town in Maine where we can hear frogs in the pond on a summer night and loons on lake nearby.  It's a nice place to live, but I do enjoy traveling to the city to shop and get out and about.  It's a good happy medium.   

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