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Whoops, I voted before I read the definitions. I put "city", but according to your definition it is "inner city", but in actuality, it was a middle class neighborhood within the city limits. (Why do so many think that everywhere within the city limits is "inner city"?)
I said that only areas that are in downtown or immediately surround it can be inner city.
Fairly generic suburb. I'm 41, so it was an area just inside the city limits of Charlotte at the time - 25 years later, it's now an inner ring suburb. The area at the time was very solidly middle-class, fairly mixed ethnically. The area (near the intersection of Idlewild and what is now E. Harris Blvd in east Charlotte) has undergone very dramatic demographic changes over the last 10-15 years; there are areas just NW of there that are textbook examples of suburban decline, as the central part of Charlotte gentrified, housing projects were redeveloped into mixed-use developments, and residents of what was 'inner city' Charlotte were essentially dumped outwards, mostly into east Charlotte.
Oh well than I'm not rural. Never seen a sign for a nudist colony and I think there are people here who can spell "masturbate."
LOL!
Okay now, speaking of rural, I wonder how many people who have voted in the poll live in towns under 75k in population. Observation, it's your thread, and you can define these kinds of places however you wish, but I think people might find it useful if you added "non-suburban town" or something like that as a category between "suburban" and "country." Actually, those of us with a strong interest in urban geography could probably break down towns below 75k in population into several distinct categories, but for the broad kind of categorizations you're doing here, one might do, or at most you might have two categories, like "non-suburban town" and "non-suburban small city."
Check out some examples of the kind of place I would call "country" (somewhat similar to your nudist colony pic, minus the risque subject matter):
Judge for yourself, but I think most people would consider these to be very different kinds of locales than those in the first links I posted. Maybe it could come down to the point you made several posts ago about using your brain in deciding which category to pick, but in the case of people living in non-suburban towns and small cities, there is no definition here that even comes close to fitting, once you look at some of these pics and realize that a town this size is not really "country," so it's a tough pick for anyone in this situation.
Okay now, speaking of rural, I wonder how many people who have voted in the poll live in towns under 75k in population.
Me. Most people in my county don't even live in a town, most live in the unincorporated areas surrounding each town. The main town, aka the county seat, has 800 ppl, another town has 1,000 ppl and another has 600 ppl. The rest of the 19k ppl of the county live in unincorporated neighborhoods of the county. But the unincorporated areas still have to use one of the 3 towns zipcodes, so if you go by zipcode population then each town's population is listed as 7,000 or 8,000.
But I did live in town for the first 8 yrs of my life, then I lived in one of the unincorporated areas 8 mins from town for the next 7 yrs, and then we lived in town w/ my grandparents for 5 yrs up until last spring. Now my parents live in another one of the unincorporated areas that's about 15 mins from town and 10 mins from the little city in the neighboring county.
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Looks like most of you where raised in the suburbs.
But why does everyone on this site act like they're a city person?
I'd bet a lot that most people raised in the suburbs MOVED to the city and now boast city life as the best way of living. I notice that the biggest city die-hards often come from people who moved there from the suburbs, and people who are from the city see the good AND bad aspects of living in the city.
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Ages 0-5: suburban (Florence, KY; near Cincinnati)
Ages 5-11: small towns (Jamestown and Russell Springs KY) and country
Ages 11-present: small/ mid sized cities. Mostly in suburban areas (Lexington and Louisville KY)
People picked suburb because according to the OP; small cities are suburbs.
I was technically raised in a city but due to the criteria; I picked suburb.
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