Urban or Rural?

[Pike]

I like where my city is at currently with the 30k. Nice and cozy

[Jinx]

BoB, you don't understand Midwest cities, is all. I'm with Pike on this one.

I live in Kansas City, but I've lived in a rural part of Kansas City and the suburbs. And then there's the urban part. Kansas City has 150k people. Wait, before you start rearing up to argue, you need to understand that Kansas City covers 391 square miles of land. Everything is spread out. Just because there's a lot of people, it doesn't mean they're close together in any way.

30k people REALLY isn't that much. And considering Bozeman is a rural/farming area, you've got to take into account that the majority of people are living spread out from one another, and in some cases, might live a mile or two away from anyone else.

[Pumpkin]

Rural. As long as I can get to a town when I need too. It would be nice for my son to have a large yard to play with and be near a small town where people know each other. It's nice to see the stars and actually have quiet at night and to go for walks in the yard and see deer and possums. If I have a dog he can play outside with less worry of getting hit by a car. He can go play and get much needed exercise without having to go to a designated dog park or really long walks a few times a day. It would be nice to have privacy and freedom from living in a house that isn't in a neighborhood where they tell you what you can and can't do to the house that you own. It would be nice to not live directly next to someone where they can look out of their window and see into yours or listen to your conversations when you're outside.

[Madame Adequate]

I wouldn't ever want to go much bigger than that to be quite honest.

That's what she said

Anyway yeah I don't like full-on 'village of 112 people and one goat' rural, but anything that's small town or bigger I'm perfectly happy with. I'm as happy in Newtownards (about 12,000 people IIRC) as I am in New York City.

[Pike]

Newtownards (about 12,000 people IIRC)

Newtownards is the size of Bozeman, my dear.

And it's very cute. It's like Bozeman but with better accents.

[Madame Adequate]

You're right, I had looked at households by accident, not population. Newtownards is about 28k people.

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'.

Yes you can? It it's 3/5 of a square mile that's exactly the population density you would have.

Also you guys really aren't grasping just how far Bozeman is from anywhere that isn't Bozeman. Newtownards is a small town of roughly 28,000 people, but it's half an hour to Belfast, which has like 650,000 people and is a sizable city with all the amenities you'd expect. Bozeman has stuff within itself but the nearest city of half a million is 710 miles away in the form of Seattle. Denver's a little further but you don't need to go through the Rockies so it's slightly quicker to drive to. Anyway although Bozeman's certainly large town/small city there's an important difference because the nearest major metropolitan areas are enormously far away, whereas even if you live in Pissville, Maine it's impossible to be that far from a city (although admittedly if you're in Caribou it's still a long goddamn way to Portland, ME).

I don't entirely agree with Pike's definition of Bozeman as rural, but I think it's more rural than urban and it's surrounded in every direction by hundreds of miles of either farmland or wilderness, except for a few towns of equal size.

[Mirage]

I want to make a joke city that has the population density of tokyo, while only having a population of 1000 people or so.

[Pike]

Actually I have to retract my prior statements about population because apparently my town's population increased by like 30% in the last ten years so

I want to make a joke city that has the population density of tokyo, while only having a population of 1000 people or so.

MAGNASANTI

[Slothy]

I want to make a joke city that has the population density of tokyo, while only having a population of 1000 people or so.

So like an apartment building then?

[Madame Adequate]

Ho ho, you folks are in for a treat:

Kowloon Walled City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Pike]

Ho ho, you folks are in for a treat:

Kowloon Walled City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

the Walled City had a population density of approximately 1,255,000 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,250,000 /sq mi) in 1987.

Well trout.

[The Summoner of Leviathan]

The city where I went to school as a kid was still a city with a population of 7k. I come from a rather ridiculously rural area by the standards here. Then again, my parents' address has the provincial highway in it. :/

[Bunny]

I grew up in several different cities, but the primary two where I spent most of my time had roughly 50,000 and 100,000 people in it. The city I live in now has closer to 150,000 people (though it seems significantly smaller to me). I prefer moderately populated cities (like where I grew up) to what I consider to be overpopulated ones (San Diego, which I was about 15 minutes outside of, or Denver, which is about an hour away).

I lived in the Suburbs at one point and it was terrible. I lived in a rural town for about 6 months or so (populate slightly more than 1,500) and it was nice but has some significant drawbacks - chief among them being it takes for smurfing ever to get anywhere you want to go.

[~*~Celes~*~]

i lived in the suburbs for 12 years, and i miss it. We had a nice sized yard, quiet neighborhood, good school district, and we lived close enough to the city that we only had to drive about 15 minutes, give or take, to get to the store. And we had a 7-11 right in our neighborhood, though they got rid of their gas pumps about a year or two before we moved away which was a major inconvenience.

Some of my fondest childhood memories include riding my bike to that 7-11 for slurpies, big league bubblegum, and pokemon cards, and the festivals we had during this time of year I would love to live in the suburbs again, however, i am currently stuck in the city and while it is nice that we have so many restaurants so close to home and we have nice neighbors, i am not a fan of the houses being so close together, the fact that not every house has a driveway (it makes the streets hard to get through during busy traffic times because there's a lot of parking in the street and the streets aren't as wide as they should be), and people drive like idiots in this city. Where I lived before, it was rare for someone to cut you off or speed up and make it nearly impossible for you to merge into traffic on the express way. Out here....every day i swear we barely dodge getting into accidents, and it's not my husband that's a bad driver.

I loved being able to go in our yard on days like today and just sit and enjoy the breeze and sunshine and it would be so peaceful with the birds chirping and dogs barking in the distance. I just don't have that same peacefulness anymore

[escobert]

There are only two traffic lights, 0 mcdonalds, 0 movie theaters, 0 big box stores in my town so I would most defiantly consider it rural
wiki says there's 192.1 people per square mile
Windsor, Vermont - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia