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> From MY perspective, both Buies Creek and Coulee City are rural. Yeah - for a person who is adjusted to only living in big cities then sure. However, Buies C

> From MY perspective, both Buies Creek and Coulee City are rural. Yeah - for a person who is adjusted to only living in big cities then sure. However, Buies Creek is 30 minutes away from the downtown of a city. It is not rural by almost anyone else's definition. It'd be like saying Atherton, CA is rural because it's a "smaller" town of 7k people. Ignoring that it's within a 8 million population metro and within 30-45 minutes of a 1 million population sprawling city (San Jose) and another 800k+ densely populated one (San Francisco).

dragontamer 7y ago
> Yeah - for a person who is adjusted to only living in big cities then sure I've never lived in any big city. Literally never. Not even close, always 20+ minutes away from the major city. The thing is: suburbia itself is a network of smaller cities. Buies Creek has no "smaller city" near it. Buies Creek IS the city. -------- To continue your Atherton example... Atherton is a suburb of ___Palo Alto___, not a suburb of San Fran. It is a brisk 4-mile bike-ride from Atherton to Palo Alto and back, you don't even need a car if you live in Atherton and commute to Palo Alto. There's NOTHING walking or biking distance to Buies Creek, NC. Rural is more about "distance from nearest metro". -------- Buies Creek NC is 40-minutes to Raleigh. This is rural by my experience. True, Buies Creek NC is "less Rural" for people who are used to 2-hour drives (Coulee City to Spokane), but a 40-minute drive away from a big city is Rural by most people's definition of Rural.
- bradlys 7y ago
  > Not even close, always 20+ minutes away from the major city. lol - this is so disconnected from how anyone who lives a truly rural lifestyle would think of it. 20 minutes is a joke! Living multiple hours away is considered more standard.
  - TylerE 7y ago
    By whom? 99% of the rural population isn't Eastern Montana.

dragontamer 7y ago

> Yeah - for a person who is adjusted to only living in big cities then sure I've never lived in any big city. Literally never. Not even close, always 20+ minutes away from the major city. The thing is: suburbia itself is a network of smaller cities. Buies Creek has no "smaller city" near it. Buies Creek IS the city. -------- To continue your Atherton example... Atherton is a suburb of ___Palo Alto___, not a suburb of San Fran. It is a brisk 4-mile bike-ride from Atherton to Palo Alto and back, you don't even need a car if you live in Atherton and commute to Palo Alto. There's NOTHING walking or biking distance to Buies Creek, NC. Rural is more about "distance from nearest metro". -------- Buies Creek NC is 40-minutes to Raleigh. This is rural by my experience. True, Buies Creek NC is "less Rural" for people who are used to 2-hour drives (Coulee City to Spokane), but a 40-minute drive away from a big city is Rural by most people's definition of Rural.

bradlys 7y ago
> Not even close, always 20+ minutes away from the major city. lol - this is so disconnected from how anyone who lives a truly rural lifestyle would think of it. 20 minutes is a joke! Living multiple hours away is considered more standard.
- TylerE 7y ago
  By whom? 99% of the rural population isn't Eastern Montana.