RQotD: What kind of area do you live in?

[DawnMarch]

Just wondering the kind of neighborhoods or areas that people live in -- city, country, suburbs, etc?

We are most definitely in the suburbs -- master planned community kinda thing with a home owners association (hate them, by the way). How about you?!

[my3hens]

We are in the suburbs. I love it here! We live in a duplex but the houses around us are amazing! ( I have dreams LOL)

[ColleenSwerb]

Suburbs here too. Smallish, relatively quiet community (also with an HOA). About 20 minutes North of Baltimore.

I would love to move further out into the country. I dream of owning 10+ acres and plopping a big gorgeous house in the middle of it, and letting Tiger and our (future) kids run wild

[emmasmommy]

I picked rural/country...but it's not quite country. We live in a neighborhood but it's not organized by any means...and if you go up two blocks you are in a corn field LOL

We don't have a grocery store but we've got 4 bars, 3 pizza places and 2 gas stations You know, the important things in life. We've only got about 1500 people in our town.

[junebug]

i chose suburbs, but Kokomo isn't really a huge town. and we are right on the outer edge, almost in the country, lol. Indiana has so many farms and corn fields you're pretty much in the country every where, lmao!

[nikkiARNGwife]

Way out in the country I even live on a dirt road.

[mrs_jb]

We are in the suburbs of Philadelphia, about 40 mins out. It's a nice area but we have but in a state of rapid growth for a long time, so it's sometimes hard to see what used to be open land and farms turned into subdivision after subdivision.

[Stacey42]

I live in the country surrounded by grazing pasture on all sides. My nearest neighbor is about a quarter mile away and it is a 15 minute drive to the 'corner store'

[Kara]

Suburbs, about 10-15 minutes from Minneapolis. We just moved from a suburb that is a little further out of town and honestly I really miss it - there was more open space and park land. Our new location is great for commuting, but doesn't have the same sense of peacefulness.

[lizzyfizzy]

we live in a planned community with an HOA. i love it here. we have a Par4 golf course just a block away. of course as the fates would have it, i blow at golf.

[MamaBee]

I live in a "city" but the city is only 70,000... so I marked the burbs.... a lot of towns/cities make up the metro area which would be about 360,000 people... it's okay living here... we pay through the nose in taxes.

[my4boys]

total suburb girl here....our houses are pretty close together which is OK cause I <3 most of my neighbors...........most shopping is close but not too close.

[suze]

Im in a city/rural Im in a major missouri college town we are constantly growing and we admitted another 5000 freshmans. We are no where close to being a major city tho.

[ajf9597]

I picked city, pop. 30,000. I consider it more of a town, but I don't know. We are about 30 min from Omaha, NE

[Megan Turnidge]

2 weeks ago I was definitely in the heart of the city (blah). Now we're in the country... in fact, our house is on a lot in the midst of a bunch of cotton fields. hehe It's very quiet and I feel so much safer... and the cotton fields are very pretty (nice change from all the cement).

[AnnieBananie]

I almost voted suburban... but then I remembered that our hardware store has a pet store inside of it and there is no Target.... and I'm walking distance from corn and cows. So I voted country.

[mummytothree]

I'm not really sure what you classify my "place" as. We live just outside of a town of about 15,000. I have neighbors but we live on a dead end cul de sac. Our town has a WalMart and a small mall (JC Penny's, KMart, Old Navy). We also have a fairly "nice" hospital. But if I want to eat at say AppleBee's or Olive Garden I have to drive an hour. If I want to shop at a Target or Macy's I have to drive an hour. If I need a hospital with a NICU or Children's Hospital I have to drive 1.5 to 2 hours.

I guess you would consider where I live an older fashion type pf "burbs"!!!

However growing up I lived in the COUNTRY!!! Literally the middle of a cornfield. I lived an hour away from any town/school and even to this day my parents (who still live there) can't get cable or ayn type pf internet except dial up!!! HArd to believe those kinds of places still exist!!!!

[Julie Billingsley]

suburb outside of Portland Oregon

[DawnMarch]

Darn! Guess I should have made "small town" an option. These polls are always trickier than I think they are going to be!

[rachaelsscraps]

I chose other becomes we don't live in a city, near a city, or out in the boonies... we live in a regular town in a small state.... no housing authority either, thank God. We just gotta follow zoning laws of course

[Leila]

I picked suburb. Our neighboorhood is made up of single family homes, townhouses and apartment buildings. Oh--at the end of our road is a massive corn field. At the other end of the road is a Walgreen's, a grocery store, Papa John's, Quiznos, some coffee place and a Great Clips.

[kscwgirl]

suburbs.

[jessica31876]

it used to be really rural here at one time but the city is expanding farther out everyday but I would not consider where I live suburbs either.

[lauren grier]

city

[kristine]

I picked rural, even though it is a suburb - just a really rural one We are about 30 minutes from Oslo, yet we have forest on one side of the house, and fields on the other.

[Nonna2Dreja]

We live in the country, on the outskirts of the Village here, though we do have village water/sewer....There are a couple of horse farms down the road....Very peaceful....

[Shawna Clingerman]

suburbia for sure blockbuster, starbucks and a grocery store on every corner and single family homes as far as the eye can see

[Nathalie]

I voted country although it is a little town in country Victoria - just doesn't belong to Melbourne's suburbs anymore. However, we do have fields, horses and cows surrounding this town. I like the convinience of a township with rural settings.

[SmallMoments]

Originally Posted by junebug

i chose suburbs, but Kokomo isn't really a huge town. and we are right on the outer edge, almost in the country, lol. Indiana has so many farms and corn fields you're pretty much in the country every where, lmao!

Totally. I voted city/urban, but it's not like big city. We're in town. We can walk to down town, but we're only a city of about 32,000. All the kids in our schools are in town. No one lives in the country... even though after driving 5-10 minutes in either direction, you end up in corn country. lol

[kresta]

Hmm, I chose other. I live in Panama City, so it's technically a city. But it's not big-city like I think of when I think 'city'. But I live in town, so it's not really suburbs. Whatever. That's where I live. LOL!

[HeatherKS]

I'm a country girl. 10 miles to the nearest grocery store and 30 miles to the nearest Wal-Mart. Fields, pastures and cows as far as the eye can see from our front yard.

[lovely1m]

We live in a small town that is just outside a bigger town. We are really enjoying it. It has the small town feel, yet we are actually more of a suburb and still have the big town.

[Jennifer]

I can't decide. It's a small town and we live in a neighborhood, so not exactly rural/country (though some parts of our county are, for sure). We're not really suburbs, either. Hmmmm...I should ask DH what he thinks. I've never really thought about it.

[joelsgirl]

I live in a ccity of 300,000, but it doesn't feel like a big city. When I was planning on moving there from my city of 30,000 in Arkansas, it seemed HUGE, but after we lived in a city of 5 million in Indonesia, 300,000 seems a little small, lol. It's all about perspective!

[4noisyboys]

Originally Posted by Shawna Clingerman

suburbia for sure blockbuster, starbucks and a grocery store on every corner and single family homes as far as the eye can see

yep...me too!!

[Paula]

I voted rural/country because this town that I live in is SO podunk, we don't have a Wal-mart or anything national except a McDonald's and an Arby's and the closest towns are 3-4 hours away. Ugh!

Nada, zilch, niete! LOL

[pewtertm]

We're on the county line, literally LOL. We've got definite urban about a block to our east, but a mile or two to our east is farmland. And yet we're definitely not the suburbs.

[ditzyscrap]

I picked urban, but I live in a town that is on the verge of being a city...and I live sorta on the outskirts (like 5 or so blocks from the edge of town). Where I live is all townhouses and condos, but not gated communities or anything like that...

[tuneskids]

I chose other. We live in a community, not a city, town or municipality. There are a little over 4,000 residents here I have neighbors on either side of me, but behind me is forested and further on is a river, then farmer fields.
Closest neighboring communities are about 20-30 minutes away ... closest Wal*Mart is 45-60 minutes away.

[livelys]

I chose suburbs. Where I live is called a village for old times sake, but it has so many residents and is practically joined to the next 'village' that it really is just a title only. There are houses everywhere now, though we're lucky enough to have a lovely canal walk to the back of us and a very large heathland within a very short drive too. The nearest supermarket is 15 minutes in either direction by car.

From our nearest train station it takes 50 minutes to get into London.

[Winter Ivy]

Originally Posted by nikkiARNGwife

Way out in the country I even live on a dirt road.

Ditto!

[1girl1boy]

We live just north of Austin in Round Rock so I guess you'd say we're living suburban life.

[Christy Lyle]

We're in the burbs

[dover6473]

I have no neighbors and I love it! There is a cotton field on one side and soybean field on the other side of my house. Across the road from me is another cotton field.

[~Julie~]

Suburbs.. We just moved the end of July and the differences between here and the city where we were living are just crazy. Its so quiet here.

Dawn I agree with you about the HOA thing. Like I said we have only been living here a month and we are already having issues with them!

[SeattleSheri]

Since I live walking distance to a Target, a huge mall and at least 5 major grocery stores, I'm going with City/Urban I think the Seattle Metro area is the ranked 15th in size in the nation, and Seattle is the 25 largest city in the U.S. .... just for some random added factoids, lol.

[Linz]

suburbs and we love it here.

[juliemarie]

definitely rural/country - (there's only 2 stoplights in the county). We have a Subway, but McDonalds is in the next county 30 miles away.

[Nettio]

Hmm, I voted other. We technically live within the city limits of the 2nd largest city in the state. We're only a few freeway exits from downtown and I used to be able to see Target and the movies from my house, haha. But we do technically live in a neighborhood with an HOA. I don't know, to me, city/urban living involves public transportation and skyrises neither of which we really have, and it seems way more small-town than Denver.

Now when we lived in Seoul, THAT was urban living. We lived on the 8th floor of a 13 story building and that was considered a small building, most were more like 30+ stories. I remember flying home to San Francisco and thinking, dang all the buildings here are so short. Plus we had 3 subway lines within walking distance of our house. It was great, noisy, but great.