When you think "country" do you think more farm towns or mountainous areas? (live in, restaurants)

[jp646]

When someone says "out in the country" or "they live out in the middle of no where", do you picture more of a classic "farm town" setting, or a "mountain town" setting? In other words, do you picture cows and chickens or bears and moose?

[desert sun]

Im from a small farm town and I call the outskirts of it "the country" but I live in Albuquerque now and I call the mountians "the woods or forest" and I call the desert "the desert" but I couldnt call the mountains and the desert the country cause the country is what I know back home.

here is a video from back home-

YouTube - Out in the Country-dirt road in Portales,New Mexico

[Nivalis]

Unless the terrain is explicitly stated, I usually think of some mash-up of the two where there are plenty of farms and dense hilly forests.

[HighPlainsDrifter73]

Originally Posted by desert sun

Im from a small farm town and I call the outskirts of it "the country" but I live in Albuquerque now and I call the mountians "the woods or forest" and I call the desert "the desert" but I couldnt call the mountains and the desert the country cause the country is what I know back home.

here is a video from back home-

YouTube - Out in the Country-dirt road in Portales,New Mexico

I like the video. When I think country, I think small farm towns and rural areas.

[michigan83]

I definitely think of small towns and rural areas.

I don't think of the woods, desert or mountains as "the country." I think it's because I grew up in a farming community, but unless the place has some sort of agricultural aspect to it, I don't think of it as "the country."

A few pics I took where I live in Michigan... what I would consider "out in the country."

[WeSoHood]

Country is anywhere that isn't city or suburban.. By suburban I mean no less than 2,000 people per square mile.. even at that population it feels rural to me. It doesn't matter where or what terrain.

[the resident09]

Both, i was riding between the Mountains of Western PA and the plains of Eastern/Central Ohio last week, thinking my god im in the country!

[le roi]

I picture:
row crops & agriculture
timberland
rangeland & managed grazing land.

[ABQConvict]

To me, "the country" is rural, populated (albeit thinly) area. Unpopulated areas are "backcountry".

"Country music" is played by people with man-made instruments.

"Backcountry music" is played by the wind in the trees and the water in the brook.


ABQConvict

[WVMountainMan]

Either its allot of

Mountains, snakes, rivers, farms, ect. With not really anybody around..

or

Swamps, gators, snakes, farms, ect. With not really anybody around..

I have friends in S.C. that live 15 minutes from a gas station and consider a couple restaurants in town as being too city like. Everybody seems to have their own definition