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Old 06-15-2018, 12:50 PM
 
Location: New York, NY
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As long as you live in a city, consider yourself urban

If you live in a town, village, or hamlet, you are suburban

Below that you're rural

I go for more of the legal definition and not aesthetics

:::fin:::
A legal definition won't get you anywhere. I definitely do not live in an urban neighborhood. About as suburban as it gets.
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Old 06-15-2018, 12:51 PM
 
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A legal definition won't get you anywhere. I definitely do not live in an urban neighborhood. About as suburban as it gets.
"You live in a suburban neighborhood in the city"

Repeat it to yourself and see if you still believe it

You actually live in a low-density urban area.
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Old 06-15-2018, 12:53 PM
 
Location: New York, NY
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"You live in a suburban neighborhood in the city"

Repeat it to yourself and see if you still believe it

You actually live in a low-density urban area.
Low density urban area where you need a car to get around.... Hardly urban....
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Old 06-15-2018, 12:57 PM
 
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Low density urban area where you need a car to get around.... Hardly urban....
Lol if you live in a city you're urban point blank

Spin it however you want to, but you live in a city. City = urban

If you don't live in a city, you're suburban or rural

It's ok, the truth is hard at times
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Old 06-15-2018, 12:59 PM
 
Location: New York, NY
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Lol if you live in a city you're urban point blank

Spin it however you want to, but you live in a city. City = urban

If you don't live in a city, you're suburban or rural

It's ok, the truth is hard at times
That's like comparing Far Rockaway to Neponsit... Hardly the same urban areas. My neighbors in Little Neck would like to have a word with you.
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Old 06-15-2018, 01:01 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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Three related ways people use the term urban which leads to confusion:

- urban in regards to the build and function of an area, especially in regards to density and use patterns

- urban in regards to culture, often either relating to a cosmopolitan outlook (maybe from people confused with the word "urbane") or sometimes in regards to the culture identified with communities in dense, rough neighborhoods

- urban in regards to municipalities and their relation to each other with primary cities considered urban and municipalities separate and usually smaller or less a center of social and commercial activity from it to be regarded as suburban

Maybe we should strike some of these definitions out and use words without conflated meanings.
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Old 06-15-2018, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Between the Bays
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As long as you live in a city, consider yourself urban

If you live in a town, village, or hamlet, you are suburban

Below that you're rural

I go for more of the legal definition and not aesthetics

:::fin:::
So you think we're over thinking it then. I was about to get into the usage of square feet of land occupied by built structures etc.
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Old 06-15-2018, 01:07 PM
 
Location: Between the Bays
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Lol if you live in a city you're urban point blank

Spin it however you want to, but you live in a city. City = urban

If you don't live in a city, you're suburban or rural

It's ok, the truth is hard at times
But Nywriterdude used to tell me about how I live in the boonies.
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Old 06-15-2018, 01:26 PM
 
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That's like comparing Far Rockaway to Neponsit... Hardly the same urban areas. My neighbors in Little Neck would like to have a word with you.
They sure can, I will gladly inform them that they live in a city. And not the suburbs.
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Old 06-15-2018, 01:27 PM
 
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But Nywriterdude used to tell me about how I live in the boonies.
Nyreaderdude? Smh that's what I'ma start calling him now
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