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I'm pretty sure the OP meant cities that have a greater abundance of rural and or wooded areas of sparse population. That's what he/she meant by Country Cities. For instance, driving through a dark, poorly lit, 2-lane, backwoods area of Jacksonville/Charlotte/Houston/Dallas/Atlanta/Orlando/etc when you're only 10 minutes from downtown. You know what I mean.
I'm pretty sure the OP meant cities that have a greater abundance of rural and or wooded areas of sparse population. That's what he/she meant by Country Cities. For instance, driving through a dark, poorly lit, 2-lane, backwoods area of Jacksonville/Charlotte/Houston/Dallas/Atlanta/Orlando/etc when you're only 10 minutes from downtown. You know what I mean.
Then by using that logic that still wouldnt apply to any of these cities...
I'm pretty sure the OP meant cities that have a greater abundance of rural and or wooded areas of sparse population. That's what he/she meant by Country Cities. For instance, driving through a dark, poorly lit, 2-lane, backwoods area of Jacksonville/Charlotte/Houston/Dallas/Atlanta/Orlando/etc when you're only 10 minutes from downtown. You know what I mean.
No I don't know what you mean. You guys just fly out oxymorons left and right.
there are no rural areas in the city of Houston. and stop trying to answer for the OP and others.
it sounded silly when you tried to explain why LA was a one and Houston was a 9 by density. This whole thread is stupid and just because a city has dark poorly lit 2 lane areas does not mean it is rural. Houston probably has more large well lit roads than any NE city.
rural does not mean empty. Just because we have unused land does not mean it is agricultural land. Cities are areas that are not rural, and thus a not rural area cannot be rural. It just stupid that these terms get flown out here without not knowing what they mean. Suburban is not the opposite of Urban, rural is. And Rural is not a subarea of urban, suburban is.
This is the only place in SE I could find with no sidewalks.
Sigh.
Two things.
1. That's not an example of an "Southern" looking area, it's an example of a suburban looking area inside of DC. Every big city North, South, East, West has an area that looks like that. It was born from mid-20th residential design (popularized in the NYC metro, not the South FYI) that most big cities have on the edges of area developed before that era. Developers wanted to find a way to keep people from fleeing the big cities to the shiny new suburbs that sprouted up along the Interstate system. Their solution was to build neighborhoods that were just like the suburbs. Obviously, that wasn't the brightest of ideas.
2. Whats with the "no sidewalks" comment. Are you under impression that big cities in the South don't have sidewalks or they are rare?
2. Whats with the "no sidewalks" comment. Are you under impression that big cities in the South don't have sidewalks or they are rare?
I can't speak for birdsing's intentions, but from my experience in Orlando, Tampa, Raleigh, and Charlotte, sidewalks are lacking in large parts of those cities and I find them to be very pedestrian unfriendly for that reason and a number of other ways.
I blame the media for screwing up the definition of words. I see them all the time calling independent towns suburbs of somewhere else.
We have generations of fools who grew up on this stuff, so now they make wild claims and yet they can't give a proper definition of the different land uses.
Urban areas => Primarily Centers of Commerce
Suburban => Primarily Residential Centers
Rural => Primarily Agricultural Centers
I would not call an area with enough commerce to be listed fifth in GDP rankings for the country not urban.
That is a VERY MISLEADING snippet of Charlotte..That is in the back of a neifhborhood with a small wooded area in the back ten miles from downtown! Charlotte may be built suburban style but COUNTRY it is not!
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