Who else is truly living rural?

[waksupi]

I've lived back in the mountains for over 30 years. The thought of living in or near a town gives me the shiverboogers!

[HABCAN]

Pop <300............15 miles East or West for bread and milk, 72 miles West one-way to Walmart. Over 100 miles to a small city, 3-1/2 hours drive minimum to a big one.

[oldred]

Rather remote here too, I live on 46 acres "back on the ridge" where I don't see anybody, hear anybody and I don't bother anybody! My shooting range is as another poster already said, it's whichever door I walk out of. Next to no level land on the entire place but I have a huge spring running out of a small cave, cattle, chickens, pigs and other critters plus we garden and even grow enough apples and berries to have some to sell. We really don't need to go out for much and rarely do, groceries are pretty much what we grow so even a shopping trip to the supermarket is not often nor do we need to buy much while there, I can't stand the thoughts of living in or even near a town with all that traffic, noise and neighbors, maybe remote living is not for everyone but it sure suits me!

[Goatwhiskers]

Don't live there, but we hunted a ranch in W. Texas where it was 40 miles to the nearest fuel station, and 150 miles to the nearest WM. No cell service either. GW

[dragon813gt]

Apparently 15 minutes is about the limit people will drive from their house, so we need a walmart or grocery store every 500'.

This is southern NJ, right over the bridge from Philly. The same pattern repeats in the suburbs in PA but it's so built up and old it doesn't happen as often. If traffic is bad this pattern is great if you live there.

The homogenization of America is quite sad. I travel all over and most of the non-remote areas look the same anymore. I can't stand the chain restaurants. And local places are completely hit and miss. I'm guilty because I miss diners being everywhere and a WaWa or Sheetz all over.

[shredder]

Well my little town has 876 souls at our last census. I own a little hardware store in my town. We have most of the things you need right here in town but all the stores are like mine, small and owned and operated by locals. My hardware store is like an old time general store. I have most everything but groceries.

[Blackwater]

Well, I'm sorry to report I live only 5 mi. from a smallish college town. And they're 4-laning the highway we live just off of now, which took our community well, so we've got a drill rig in the back yard now, drilling a new one for us. I once tried to get my wife to agree to build out on my farm, but she said if she moved, it'd be closer to town. So ... we've sat right here for 39 years now, come next month. We have a "branch" that runs parallel to the highway by our house, and it provided a great place for my son to grow up in. But I STILL want to build a little home on my farm, with a big shop behind it - big enough to put my boats in and still work at the various benches I'd need. My county has grown by leaps and bounds, and all due to the college, and the libs here make me wonder how long we'll still be voting majority conservative. I'm a social creature, but like "home" to be solitary and outset from others. That's how I grew up, and I loved it. At my age, it's good to be so close to the things I need, since my wife doesn't "believe in" keeping a good supply of food, etc. on hand when "you can just go to town and get more." And I can't get her to see the benefits of a full larder, no matter how hard I try.

She spent 30 years in the education system, so I attribute that to her "thinking" now. But if I ever go anywhere, it'll most DEFINITELY be further "out" from "civilization," out where folks are friendly and just plain old "folks" who have a spirit that seems to have been wiped out in the more urban locales. And where I can shoot in my back yard again! Where I can burn any trash I deem advisable to do so with. Etc., etc., etc. Where a man genuinely FEELS "free" and the air smells so much better. I fear that will be clean out of this county if things keep progressing as it is now. But we have a couple of likely candidates adjoining this county. Hmmmm. Now y'all got me to wondering and pondering!!!

[paul h]

Would love to live out in the sticks, but my job is town based and I'm not so sure my wife would be keen on being remote. I am looking at getting a few acres to build a cabin on.

[shoot-n-lead]

I grew up rural, but since being grown...a long time now, I have lived closer in. I like the convenience of being close in...don't really have any desire to live out in the sticks, any more. We have property out there...but it was just to inconvenient to work and all of things the kids were doing while growing up. We have a place at the lake, about a 100 miles away and when I get to wanting to get away...a trip to the lake, helps my feelings.

[Sur-shot]

Well, I have a 40 acre farm, tree farm that is, about 7 miles outside of a 1,500 population "city" that is in decline. Last week we started building our new home on the farm. I have gotten pretty fed up with the small city where I live now, tourists in the summer drive me nuts. So I am headed back to the country, grew up 10 miles south of Pahokee, FL, edge of the everglades, on the big lake, no electric, no running water, no indoor plumbing until I was 14. Hell, I did not know there was a grid or we were off one. It is funny how the world got along just fine without me knowing one thing about it. I bet it will be just fine if I check out of the rat race and move to the woods.
Ed

[kmrra]

Dang I guess I live in the city then , My place is 5 miles out of town we have 6 acres , I have my own range here at the house , Im one of the board members of our local gun club , Town pop is just under 10000 , Any bigger than that I get road rage LOL. nearest big city is 70 miles away , But I wouldnt change a thing , other than I would like more acreage .

[308Jeff]

I WISH I still did. Grew up on a 150 acre farm in Kentucky. Been missing that place and that way of living my entire adult life.

[Blanket]

My entire county has one traffic light.

My county has 0 traffic lights

[ericp]

I'm about 15 miles from a town of 1700. We do have a general store about a mile down the rd through.

Eric

[Wolfer]

While I shoot coyotes and crows out the kitchen window and pee off either porch I don't consider this remote. The towns of ash grove and walnut grove are only about 3 miles in opposite directions. 1 has 2 four way stops and the other has 1. You can get a pizza at the gas station. Ash Grove only has about 1000 people yet there's a grocery store, lumber yard, pharmacy, dentist, clinic and 2 feed stores. Both towns have a cafe. Wall mart is about 20 miles away.

While the neighborhood is relatively populated there aren't really any houses in sight and any day the weather is decent you will hear shooting in some direction, sometimes more than one direction. My driveway is 1/2 mile long but there is very little traffic on the road. When anybody comes to visit they often comment on how quiet it is.
Game of all kinds are often seen in the yard.

We like it here

[MT Gianni]

7 miles to town but it is on the interstate and a state highway intersection. It's a busy town for 1100 people in the impact area [15 mile radius]. Grocery store is open 6 am to 10 pm, two restaurants, and two fast food places, subway and A&W/KFC. 2 gas stations, one sells ammo and fishing stuff, Dollar store recently moved in. Ladies Auxiliary is open Fri and Sat afternoons and you can get all kinds of used stuff. 2 parts houses and tire shop/repair places. 4 bars and 11 churches. It's only 30 miles to a Mart store. WE get a lot of Canadian traffic so shops stay open longer than the next town over which rolls up the sidewalk at 6.

[jcren]

Live on the back side (about a mile down a dead end dirt road) of 225 acres. Only 3 other families on this road. Town (1200 folks) is 3 miles away. Not as rural as I would like some days, but wouldn't trade it for anything.

[MrWolf]

I just moved last week and finally got satellite internet working! My mailing address town has 500 people and I now live on 81 acres. Town is about 30 minutes for groceries and such. Costco is almost an hour away in Virginia. I love it so far!

[dverna]

Rural as well. Closest neighbor is 3/4 mile. Back onto thousands of acres of state land

Mailbox is 2.5 miles. Post Office 12 miles away as is the gas station and a convince store.

Don Verna

[Blanket]

I can shoot my full size cannon off and not raise a fuss