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"City" versus "Country"

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Originally posted by: vi_edit
I grew up in a town of 2000, my graduating high school class was 48. We had an annual "drive your tractor to school" day. That's definitely "country".🙂
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My HS had that too! The FFA chapter was very active.

ZV
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: vi_edit
I grew up in a town of 2000, my graduating high school class was 48. We had an annual "drive your tractor to school" day. That's definitely "country".🙂
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My HS had that too! The FFA chapter was very active.

ZV
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The fact that you know what the FFA is should show that you grew up at least somewhere near country. 😉
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: vi_edit
I grew up in a town of 2000, my graduating high school class was 48. We had an annual "drive your tractor to school" day. That's definitely "country".🙂
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My HS had that too! The FFA chapter was very active.

ZV
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Hell yeah. I was an FFA member. Might still have my "National Blue and Corn Gold" jacket laying around somewhere 😛
 
I live in a small town of 7k people. No Walmart, but we do have a Pamida (if you want to know what that is, google it).
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: vi_edit
I grew up in a town of 2000, my graduating high school class was 48. We had an annual "drive your tractor to school" day. That's definitely "country".🙂
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My HS had that too! The FFA chapter was very active.

ZV
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yeap we had that also and the FFA was very active also.

 
Originally posted by: Skotty
My take on it:

the country: sparsely populated unnamed areas
not a real town: any named town with < 1,000 people
small town: 1,000 to 15,000
town: 15,000 to 40,000
large town: 40,000 to 75,000
small city: 75,000 to 150,000 <-- where I live
city: 150,000 to 500,000 <-- what I consider ideal to live near
large city: 500,000 to 1,000,000
metropolis/megalopolis: 1,000,000 to 5,000,000
ludicropolis: 5,000,000 to 10,000,000
runaway infestation: 10,000,000+
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There's a huge jump from 1,000-15,000. The culture/amenities are completely different from a 2000 to a 4000 town. And then from a 4000-10,000. And likewise from 10,000-15,000.

 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: Skotty
My take on it:

the country: sparsely populated unnamed areas
not a real town: any named town with < 1,000 people
small town: 1,000 to 15,000
town: 15,000 to 40,000
large town: 40,000 to 75,000
small city: 75,000 to 150,000 <-- where I live
city: 150,000 to 500,000 <-- what I consider ideal to live near
large city: 500,000 to 1,000,000
metropolis/megalopolis: 1,000,000 to 5,000,000
ludicropolis: 5,000,000 to 10,000,000
runaway infestation: 10,000,000+
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There's a huge jump from 1,000-15,000. The culture/amenities are completely different from a 2000 to a 4000 town. And then from a 4000-10,000. And likewise from 10,000-15,000.
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Indeed. I have a bunch of family in a town with 2k pop. and the place doesn't even have its own grocery store; they have to go to the nearest city (20 miles, 100k pop) to get anything beyond milk and bread. Meanwhile, my 6.5/7k hometown has 3 grocery stores.
 
Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: vi_edit
I grew up in a town of 2000, my graduating high school class was 48. We had an annual "drive your tractor to school" day. That's definitely "country".🙂
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My HS had that too! The FFA chapter was very active.

ZV
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The fact that you know what the FFA is should show that you grew up at least somewhere near country. 😉
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How about the fact that I have loyalties to certain brands of tractors (Allis Chalmers, or International-Harvester, none of those damn green tractors)? 😉

Or that I've seen tractor pulls?

ZV
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: Vic
The legal definition of rural is <25% built-up and several miles away from services.
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What does "<25% built-up" mean?
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The percentage of land used for improvements (buildings, roads, etc). For example, a downtown area in a major city would be 100% built-up. Suburban areas are usually defined as being around 50-75% built-up. While in rural areas, most of the land is unimproved.
 
I'm still trying to get 4,500 into 15,000 15 to 30 times. Maybe the units are wrong. Are we talking whole people, or counting their fingers?
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Around here, it's where the cable service cuts off.

I didn't even grow up in a town. It was a 15 mile drive into the "city" of 2,000 people.
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my wife was 20 miles to the MAILBOX....that country enough? Oh, and about that distance to the closest gas station. Closest grocery store is about 60 miles.
 
Originally posted by: Baloo
I'm still trying to get 4,500 into 15,000 15 to 30 times. Maybe the units are wrong. Are we talking whole people, or counting their fingers?
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It was a very poorly worded post. I too initially thought he meant he grew up in a town that was 15 to 30 times smaller. But reread it and you'll see that isn't what he actually said. He grew up thinking a small town was 500 to 1000 people. But he actually lived in a larger town of 4500.
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Around here, it's where the cable service cuts off.

I didn't even grow up in a town. It was a 15 mile drive into the "city" of 2,000 people.
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my wife was 20 miles to the MAILBOX....that country enough? Oh, and about that distance to the closest gas station. Closest grocery store is about 60 miles.
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err where she live? and what year. i find it hard to beleive 60 miles from a grocery store (at least for here in the states).
 
Country is where you will NEVER find TheSlamma 😉

Anyway, I refer to "city" a major place like Chicago, Seattle or Denver including all it's suburbs (metro area) though I wouldn't be caught dead in a suburb either. Country to me is anyplace out of a metro area really. Nothing to do but sit around listening to John Cougar Mellancamp trash music. 😛
 
Originally posted by: Baloo
I'm still trying to get 4,500 into 15,000 15 to 30 times. Maybe the units are wrong. Are we talking whole people, or counting their fingers?
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4,500 is a large town. (As I said in my original post.)

A small town is 500-1,000 people.

Large != Small

ZV
 
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: CrackRabbit
Originally posted by: Zenmervolt
Originally posted by: vi_edit
I grew up in a town of 2000, my graduating high school class was 48. We had an annual "drive your tractor to school" day. That's definitely "country".🙂
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My HS had that too! The FFA chapter was very active.

ZV
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The fact that you know what the FFA is should show that you grew up at least somewhere near country. 😉
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How about the fact that I have loyalties to certain brands of tractors (Allis Chalmers, or International-Harvester, none of those damn green tractors)? 😉

Or that I've seen tractor pulls?

ZV
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Cat > *
 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: nweaver
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Around here, it's where the cable service cuts off.

I didn't even grow up in a town. It was a 15 mile drive into the "city" of 2,000 people.
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my wife was 20 miles to the MAILBOX....that country enough? Oh, and about that distance to the closest gas station. Closest grocery store is about 60 miles.
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err where she live? and what year. i find it hard to beleive 60 miles from a grocery store (at least for here in the states).
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She grew up an a place called Juniper Idaho...used to be a city, but that was years ago. Now it is a Dairy farm and a few farms. It's actually growing, as a lot of her family/kids from her generation move home again to start their family and farm.

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Closest grocery stores are in Burly, ID, and Tremonton, UT, both about 60Miles away. There are a few small stores that will sell milk and bread and such, but they are convenience stores. The closest is Bake Central, in "downtown" Malta. They would normally drive to Logan, UT for "town" stuff (her dad's family is all in Logan, it's where he grew up...summers in Juniper, winter in Logan)
 
Originally posted by: Kyteland
Originally posted by: Zolty
This is the small town I grew up in. Scroll a mile in any direction and you will see what I call country.
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I see your small town and raise it a smaller town. I don't think you can be much smaller and still call it a town.
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Oh come on that isn't a town that is just the only subdivision in that county so they had to give it a name.

oh LOL at the names of the major streets there, its like the entire area is a city (469th Ave, 320th St, ect).
 
Originally posted by: Zolty
Oh come on that isn't a town that is just the only subdivision in that county so they had to give it a name.

oh LOL at the names of the major streets there, its like the entire area is a city (469th Ave, 320th St, ect).
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The state passed a law that all of the roads had to have names for the 911 system, and nobody wanted to be creative. I'm sure those numbers are on a county-wide basis.

Burbank has been around for ~100 years. I have a copy of the original town survey. It's a bona fide country town.

Edit: Oh, And those aren't "major streets", they're mostly dirt roads.
 
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