whats your favorite thing about living in a rural area?

[David A Stone]

My uncle grew up very poor on a small central Minnesota farm on a nice fishing lake.
9 brothers and sisters


After the Korean War, he did like most others in that impoverished area did and went to Minneapolis and got a good factory job.


At about age 50, he bought one of the 6 cabins that are now on that quiet fishing lake and they spent many weekends there in summer ( about a 120 mile drive)


Now retired for many years, I had expected he would spend weeks at a time there.
His wife said after about 3 days he starts complaining that........."it's too quiet here "..and they return to their suburban home.

One person's heaven is another person's hell.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by RememberMee

Rural dysfunction has nothing to do with population densities. From the bits and pieces I get from the old timers - things were much different backs in the days. Sure rural dysfunction is a subset of modern dysfunction one can find in the cities and suburbs, it is just more distilled, more concentrated, more in your face due to the lack of ersatz substitutes and population densities cities have as well as natural tendencies of the associal types (drawing a fixed income from elsewhere) to reside in the rural areas.

Ah, but that is not what I said. Normal people do not ALL want to live close together, which is what the poster I addressed implied. Living far apart doesn't indicate either normalcy or its lack. Neither does living close together. Personal preference matters.

[StealthRabbit]

Originally Posted by slamont61

.... Must say the Quiet once I get back to rural is the biggest difference and most enjoyed. ...constant drone of City sounds.


Like hearing the birds, the frogs in the evening, anything else chirping.

We have an international guest home in the boonies / quiet.

Guests from Singapore / Hong Kong / Bangkok / Jakarta ... are sometimes unable to sleep (?) due to the silence. We do have lots of Owl and coyote noise at night (which sometimes keeps me up).

Lately a woodpecker likes my SS chimney cap at 5:00 AM.... That is a little too much noise for me.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by pikabike

Normal people don't all want to live packed gill to gill in urban or suburban environments, either. Pick what works for YOU without resorting to calling other preferences abnormal.

I am not sure if I have ever enjoyed any more than a long distance relationship with normal.

Many times I have embarked on voyages confined inside a large steel pipe with hundreds of other men, traveling down to the depths of the seas, remaining so confined for months at a time,
Considering the greater population of the human species, I suspect that living underwater is not the norm. If anything it is likely very much ab-normal.

I have lived in high-population-density cities and in low-density areas. I prefer the rural.

[pikabike]

Originally Posted by Submariner

I am not sure if I have ever enjoyed any more than a long distance relationship with normal.

Many times I have embarked on voyages confined inside a large steel pipe with hundreds of other men, traveling down to the depths of the seas, remaining so confined for months at a time,
Considering the greater population of the human species, I suspect that living underwater is not the norm. If anything it is likely very much ab-normal.

I have lived in high-population-density cities and in low-density areas. I prefer the rural.

Ah, ex-Navy, hence your moniker. Not only is that small and dark, you cannot just leave when you feel like it. Ugh. I don't even like flying in airplanes.

It's a good thing people have different likes and dislikes, because I sure as heck wouldn't want everybody piling into the same type of surroundings. It's bad enough already.