Rural? Urban? Or Suburban?
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My 8-year-old daughter brought home a project she did at school. They’re studying neighborhoods and had to draw their definition of rural, urban, and suburban.
This was her ideas of a rural home. It ain’t country until you have a horse and a red barn.
The suburbs…well, she pretty much nailed it. A bunch of houses that look exactly alike, a person walking her dog and a blue Hybrid jelly-bean car driving down the road.
When I saw her definition of urban living I realized that she might be just a little sheltered. According to her, if you don’t have a Justice, The Children’s Place, Bath & Body Works or Claires next to you, you’re not urban. Turns out you need to live in an Outlet mall to qualify as urban.
So tell me…where do you live?
Kicking it in the country?
Rocking the suburbs?
Or keepin’ it real under the city lights?
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November 3, 2009
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Urban as all get out! You know you’re urban when you rattle off bus numbers when giving directions.
What would be ideal? Either end of the scale really. Urban OR rural. I love the energy of the city, and the simplicity of the country. The suburbs are just downright depressing.
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November 3, 2009
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totally rockin’ the suburbs here in the ATL. (confession: sometimes when i’m driving through the seeming endless subdivisions of ginormous houses, i can’t help but sing “suburbia” to the tune of “disturbia”…)
but back in SA, i definitely live in a rural area. our 2500 acres is called a farm even though we don’t grow anything but grass that the game animals eat. and on all sides of us are true farms—cows, corn, haybales, and all. shudder.
i’m from long island, so country life is really not my thing. but i love africa enough to suck it up!
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November 3, 2009
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We’re definintely in the country! I love it though…I can be in the city in just over an hour if I need a fix but mostly I just enjoy the quiet.
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November 3, 2009
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Definitely turned left @ suburbia and got lost… so I stayed.
Right outside of Washington, DC in the suburbs of all suburbs…
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November 3, 2009
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Suburbia here in metro Atlanta. What’s funny is I grew up here in what was then suburbia – I’m currently 15 miles further out than that! I love the country too – especially the mountains north of Atlanta – but live, raise kids, work, and and and in suburbia.
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November 3, 2009
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Oxford, MS. A very suburban town in a very rural area.
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November 3, 2009
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I suppose we are suburban since we are in a giant Tract home area. But we are 10 minutes from the Strip in Vegas … so we are still right in the mix of things.
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November 3, 2009
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I live on a small island. I have no idea. I don’t even think we have Urban.
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November 3, 2009
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Awesome lesson!!! This is actually a lesson in her school from our curriculum we write so of course I am biased.
Suburbs…live in the burbs but I am only 2 miles from the luxuries of urban living.
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November 3, 2009
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The Ghetto.
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November 3, 2009
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Total burbs right now.
Big time urban before I got married. My house was just on the edge of a rough neighborhood in my town. Cops often used our front yard as a place to stake out the apartments across the street where drug deals regularly took place.
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November 3, 2009
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I live on a little 100-year-old farmhouse on an acre… smack in the middle of suburbia. It’s my pretend-rural setting in the midst of half-million dollar estates
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November 3, 2009
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…just like Quiet Riot did…
…except that they were talented…
YEEEEAH, YEAAAH!
…I’m just going to the store…
…for some Preparation H…
peace | dewde
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November 3, 2009
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Brad, first off, your daughter is quite the artist! Sounds like she wants to live at Clay Terrace.
For those outside of the Indy area, that’s Carmel, IN. Suburban Mecca.
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November 3, 2009
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Rural.
Surrounded by cornfields and rednecks.
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November 3, 2009
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Living suburban right now, really can’t stand it. Ideally I’d like 5 acres in the country. I like having access to the city, but really dislike living in a subdivision, stupid HomeOwners Associations… GRRRR!!!
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November 3, 2009
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Which is better… That she didn’t draw a picture of a crackhouse, or that she didn’t know that she could?
We can learn volumes from innocence. There’s nothing wrong with painting the world as it should be. …And then going and building it from the plans.
On the other hand, yeah, her gentrification of the urban living scenario might displace a few people who genuinely need some loving attention.
I think it’s time for a little girl to take a trip with her daddy to serve soup at a social agency, perhaps?
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November 3, 2009
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I love the burbs…5 minutes away from everything. I really love that I am 2 minutes from my office and the interstate.
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November 3, 2009
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Urban. Completely.
But born in the country, and miss certain aspects of that. NOT the part that involves being hours from museums, art galleries, theatres though.
Love Sydney, but glad I don’t live in the suburban parts of the city. Very glad.
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November 7, 2009
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Rockin’ the burbs – Lawrence, on Indy’s NE side. Feels like urban’s in the mix, though. Lovin’ it.