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Portland, Oregon is pretty rural both within the metro and on the outskirts(especially due to the urban growth boundary). Just 10 minutes northwest of downtown on the other side of the woods of Forest Park and you're in rural Oregon with scattered small farms and wooded lots. The northernmost neighborhood in Portland, Linnton, looks like any other small village on the Columbia River. Even within SW Portland there are areas that feel more like a small town in the coast range then the middle of a city of over 500,000. On the Eastside as well you've got farmland and rural lots that were annexed inside if other cities or metro areas. Plus you've still got a real backwoods attitude once you get out to the eastern parts of Clackamas and Multnomah counties.
I don't think it's the most rural metro in the US, but it's definitely up there.
I just re-read the thread, and i really don't see how Denver is rural at all. Outside of the city and by the eastern suburbs? Yes. Inside the city? Not at all. Any city can become rural on the outside. Also don't know why Atlanta was mentioned.
Of course now the Atlantan's will be called homers or boosters for defending against it, you are aware Atlanta is the 9th most populous msa in the country right? No friend...just no. Why is it that people see it like some podunk town?
Atlanta should not be mentioned in this thread at all.......just because its the south and spread out does not make it RURAL.......the core is urban, and most of the people who think we are the poster child for suburban sprawl should realize that SUBurban is pretty much a step or two below URBAN.....its a shame people think this is Mayberry.....
Of course now the Atlantan's will be called homers or boosters for defending against it, you are aware Atlanta is the 9th most populous msa in the country right? No friend...just no. Why is it that people see it like some podunk town?
Just a little ignorance. Atlanta proper is far from rural. The metro isn't even Atlanta, technically.
User 1: "I'm from (insert a dense city) and I went to Atlanta and it was very rural."
User 2: "What did you see?"
User 1: "Alpharetta"
User 2:
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