Urban or Rural?

[Loony BoB]

EDIT: Pike, I would consider a town with 30,000 people to be urban. Rural is more... villages, hamlets, farms etc.

But that's all we are. Farms, cows, people riding horses, clear skies with a view of the Milky Way galaxy every night. There's just a lot of us in one spot because there's nothing else for like 300 miles in any direction. I mean literally nothing else, it's all wild animals and stuff.

Yeah, but if you have all the things that an urban location has, then you're living in an urban location. You might not have the standard urban culture (well, if it's a farming town, I'm going by assumption ), but the urban status is plastered all over any area that has high speed broadband, more than one McDonalds, more than one cinema screen, something like 2,000 people per square mile, roads with more than four lanes, 24 hour shops... I guess that's just how I see the real difference when deciding what kind of lifestyle you want. Rural for me means sacrificing what you get in urban locations such as those things I just mentioned. If you already have all these things, then how are you not urban? xD

Also, saying you live in a state with less than one million people... well, I used to live in a country of less than four million people. But I still accept that the city I lived in was most definitely urban.

Come to the urban side, Pike. Look in your heart, you know it to be true.

[Yerushalmi]

Anything with under 70,000 people is not worth living in. I currently live in a city with over 800,000, and the last place I lived had 8,000,000.

[Pike]

Yeah, but if you have all the things that an urban location has, then you're living in an urban location. You might not have the standard urban culture (well, if it's a farming town, I'm going by assumption ), but the urban status is plastered all over any area that has high speed broadband, more than one McDonalds, more than one cinema screen, something like 2,000 people per square mile, roads with more than four lanes, 24 hour shops... I guess that's just how I see the real difference when deciding what kind of lifestyle you want. Rural for me means sacrificing what you get in urban locations such as those things I just mentioned. If you already have all these things, then how are you not urban? xD

I dunno man. I once lived in a town with population 1200 for a couple of years - no one owned less than like three acres of land, EVERYONE was a farmer, people rode horses to school - and we still had all that stuff.

Maybe it has to do with being in a different country. Or state. Or something.

[Loony BoB]

You can't live in a town of 1,200 people and have 2,000 people per square mile. I think I would definitely call a town of 1,200 people 'rural'.

[Pike]

You can't live in a town of 1,200 people and have 2,000 people per square mile. I think I would definitely call a town of 1,200 people 'rural'.

Still, no difference between that and where I currently live, except for the number of people. I guess we have a Target.

I dunno, to me it has to do with isolation. If I want to get to a place with over one million people in it I have to drive nonstop for twelve hours. Hell, I have to do that to get to a place with over 100,000 people in it.

[Loony BoB]

You can't live in a town of 1,200 people and have 2,000 people per square mile. I think I would definitely call a town of 1,200 people 'rural'.

Still, no difference between that and where I currently live, except for the number of people. I guess we have a Target.

I dunno, to me it has to do with isolation. If I want to get to a place with over one million people in it I have to drive nonstop for twelve hours. Hell, I have to do that to get to a place with over 100,000 people in it.

Isolation is one thing, but if you have everything an urban location has within a few minute's drive, I'd say you're not very isolated at all. You could argue that Las Vegas is isolated if you go by how long it takes to get to a bigger city.

Rural for me means "What do you mean, McDonalds is shut and the local Chinese doesn't deliver to this address?"

I think I agree with most of this: Difference Between Urban and Rural | Difference Between | Urban vs Rural

*looks up Target*

[Pike]

*looks up Target*

It's where I work xD

[Yerushalmi]

You can't live in a town of 1,200 people and have 2,000 people per square mile. I think I would definitely call a town of 1,200 people 'rural'.

Sure you can. The Vatican, after all, has two popes per square kilometer.

[Loony BoB]

If you live where I think you live, you're not even rural according to China.

Also, man, I always find it really weird whenever I come across a company that does so insanely well in America but has barely set foot in other countries (apparently Target only arrived in Canada in 2011 and that's it?). Usually American companies are so... global.

[Night Fury]

Also, one thing that I LOVE about Newcastle is how proud people are to be from Newcastle. All the people I've met at Uni from around the country have commented on it too. Geordies smurfing LOVE Newcastle. It's an amazing city and it's truly home to me, my heart will always be in Newcastle no matter where in the world I am.

[Pike]

It's because Target is actually a really good company and they want to focus on that rather than going full Wal-Mart and expanding quickly at the cost of losing what makes them good.

[Loony BoB]

Also, one thing that I LOVE about Newcastle is how proud people are to be from Newcastle. All the people I've met at Uni from around the country have commented on it too. Geordies smurfing LOVE Newcastle. It's an amazing city and it's truly home to me, my heart will always be in Newcastle no matter where in the world I am.

Whenever Danielle goes there she comes back with the accent, so I'm keen to see if her accent will change when you're around. =]

[Mirage]

I grew up in a village with a population of 300. Your move, show me how rural you are.

My current city isn't exactly a metropolis, but at least there's more than 100k living here.

[Pike]

w/e, I didn't mean for this thread to turn into a pissing contest and I'm sorry if I made it so it was xD

Honestly there should be an option for "Small city" because I think there's a huge difference between living in a small city and living in one with millions of people.

And I would never live in one with millions of people for the record. Even 100,000 is too big for me.

[Mirage]

I think the 140k of my city is just perfect. If you live in the outskirts of it, it's almost like rural living, except it's just 15 minutes by car to get to dozens of stores and restaurants. There's also not a lot of crime in small cities like these, at least not in Norwayland.