How Urban are you?

[LauraLeigh]

Very rural, but I would not say remote though we can defiantly see the stars at night...

I live on 400 acres, for neighbors we have across the road, another 400 acre or so farm, their house is across from ours about 700-800 feet away, another farm to our right with the house about 1/2 mile away and to our left no one for at least a mile...

We are not remote though, 5 minutes to the 401 (Major Highway) and 7 minutes from town (Brighton, small town no malls, Wal Mart, large retail outlets or even a Timmies!) the official population is 10,000 but that includes the entire municipality, the town is likely closer to 5,000 tops..

 

[DogKisses]

I win?

lol, this is what wiki says about my town:

As of the census[1] of 2000, there were 127
people, 51 households, and 39 families residing
in the town. The population density was 263.8
people per square mile (102.2 /km²) . There were
58 housing units at an average density of 120.5
per square mile (46 .7/km ²).

Land
• Total 0.5 sq mi ( 1.2 km 2 )




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That said, it's just a 20 minute drive to Fayetteville, population of 366,363.

I can see a billion stars at night, my "neighbors" across the street are so far away and their houses are so far back on their property that I can't tell if they are even in their yards. The 2 closest houses on my side of the road, I can't see at all. They are about 1/4 mile away.

There are fields (usually corn) on both sides of my house, that the neighbors own. Across the street, the main view from our house, is another very large field. Behind our house is woods, behind that is chicken houses.

 

[Snark]

Rural but can see the Milky Way... I have topped a hill on occasion and had to swerve to avoid a cow. Yesterday, the woman up the road (with 2 horses) wound up with four extra horses in front of her house. I stopped to help her herd them into one of her pastures.

Not really a town since we're unincorporated, the area is 49.2 square miles with a population of 2,467 people, according to Wiki.

 

[Bahamutt99]

I grew up in a city of 2,000,000. (St. Louis.)
Moved to a city of 500,000. (Tulsa)
Now I live in a city that's 2,000 (Shallowater) on the outskirts of a city that's 200,000 (Lubbock).

My world. It shrinks.​

 

[~Jessie~]

I voted urban enough, since I'm 15 minutes from downtown Orlando. I live in a suburb, but it's right outside the metro area.

I lived in a town of *80* people for 2 years when I was in middle school. It was terrible. I couldn't live in a big city, but I would never want to live in such an unpopulated area ever again.

 

[Backward_Cinderella]

I'm far more urban than I like to be, considering I was raised (mostly) twenty five miles off of a back road out of a town where everybody knows your name.

 

[Lizmo]

15,000 = SO small? Haha we need a step below that.... like 1000 maximum. My town has about 900 people.

Haha ^that.

It's SO small. We just got a super Wal-Mart 2 years ago.

I don't really like small towns. I would rather live outside of town on land, but near a bigger city.

 

[lizzybeth727]

I was reading the poll trying to remember what the population in my town is.... Until I got to the "my neighbor has cows" option and said, "That's it!" In fact the neighbor's cows are usually so far away from our property that we forget they're there. But just today we kept hearing them and their donkey, and at first we thought it was a dog squeaky toy, LOL.

But I do live close to Austin, which is a good-size city. I'd actually prefer living in a larger city, it's nice living close to everything.

 

[~Jessie~]

We live right outside a metro area and our neighbors have cows. Not our direct neighbors, but there is a big field of cows in our neighborhood.

 

[Dizzy]

I grew up in a town with a population of under 30,000. I live in a city with a population of about 450,000. And spend most of my free time in a village with a population of maybe 600? Although that seems high because it's tiny so I don't know where they'd all fit

 

[Dizzy]

I grew up in a city of 2,000,000. (St. Louis.)

My head can not even begin to imagine that big.......

How can you have that many people in one place!

 

[Doberluv]

It's funny....where I live in a subdivision type thing, just across the road, behind some houses are cows and lots of larger properties surrounding. I can hear the cows mooing sometimes and coyotes....coyotes not mooing. LOL. And I'm within city limits, but actually about 10 minutes drive from the main city, except for a little shopping center/strip mall type thing that's only 2 miles away. This whole area was very farmy not too many years ago. It's still that way in many places around here.

 

[~WelshStump~]

Rural, I have four footed live stock! But yes, a few neighbors have cows, and horses, and goats.

 

[Tankstar]

When I grow up I'm gonna be urban" size (50,000-99,999), im directly outside Toronto(2,500,000 population), we are part of the GTA which is 5.5 million people. I picked that due to our population. But I have many farms up the road from me, can still see stars, have 1000s of acres of forest ect lol Im just on the very outskirts of the town (90,000). Id love to live in a SMALL town, like 1,000 people. I want to move up north where its all fishing/hunting towns, I love it up there.

 

[Bahamutt99]

My head can not even begin to imagine that big.......

How can you have that many people in one place!

I don't know but it kinda sucks. I'm up here now, handling my mom's affairs. The traffic alone is making me want to damage people.