My wife's job took us to a small rural city. By population size and density, we weren't that small. The metro area was 60k+ people. However, we were a 3 hours d

My wife's job took us to a small rural city. By population size and density, we weren't that small. The metro area was 60k+ people. However, we were a 3 hours drive from any major city. To me this panned out in two ways: * There really wasn't a lot to do outside a 10 mile radius. Anything worth doing was 1 to 2+ hours drive (often more). That meant nearly everything we did was in the small city we lived in. * Travel was frustrating. We essentially had to pay a 3 hour driving tax on every trip we took. In other words, despite living in a "suburban" density city (with some urban density areas), it was really how our city was positioned relative to other cities that determined it's feeling. It wasn't large enough to explore internally.