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You don't have as good Internet or cell phone service. You have to rely on electricity for your water (in assuming all rural homes have to rely on wells for water). If you need emergency help it takes longer for them to arrive. You have to have a car because its too far to walk anywhere. You can't walk anywhere. It's lonely because its so wide open and spread out. It seems its mostly older people who like to live in rural areas. Why? Is it because you think think its safer? It has its own dangers just like a city.
You'll get as many answers as there are people living in rural areas. All rural areas are not the same so broad generalizations will fail.
Many of us have lived in very large American cities so never make the mistake that we're all country bumpkins with a hay straw stuck in our teeth. We simply prefer rural living regardless of the lack of public services because we enjoy space, solitude, quiet living and a feeling that life should be more about quality than quantity.
When was the last time you saw a golden eagle sitting on a post near your house, a deer in your front yard or walked for miles on a dirt road with no traffic? When was last time you did not hear a wailing siren of an emergency vehicle rushing somewhere or horns beeping in traffic? Does your banker or your postman call you by your first name? If these things are of little concern to you, you are simply in the majority of Americans who desire to live within the comfort zone provided by city services. We do not fault you for your choice of lifestyles. Please do not fault ours.
I prefer to live in a rural area because I intensely dislike the noise of people/traffic and LOVE nature. I can't imagine being a city dweller and at the mercy of city utilities for one. I also cannot imagine NOT having my hands in soil every day, watching things grow, seeing my dogs run around etc. It was great when I was young and around me wasn't so built up. I had a horse and every couple days I'd saddle up, let loose the dogs, ride to the Rio Grande River and run and run and run! Sure I'm old now, but I want to move even farther out to be away from people.
You don't have as good Internet or cell phone service. You have to rely on electricity for your water (in assuming all rural homes have to rely on wells for water). If you need emergency help it takes longer for them to arrive. You have to have a car because its too far to walk anywhere. You can't walk anywhere. It's lonely because its so wide open and spread out. It seems its mostly older people who like to live in rural areas. Why? Is it because you think think its safer? It has its own dangers just like a city.
LOL..Really? I live out because I love the peace and quite and beauty of not having nosy folks in my business.....
I'll play along, just for laughs. I live in a rural area.
Not true. I have excellent service.
Not true again.... and a wrong assumption.
Yes, untrue again. VFD is minutes away, as is ambulance. Service is quicker here than in a gridlocked city.
Ding, ding, ding... you got one right.
Rural doesn't mean your legs stop working, you know!
Not lonely at all! And maybe it is wide open where YOU are, but I have rolling hills and a small mountain range.
My area is a nice mix. The elementary school has ~700 kids in it... and they don't belong to old people.
Who says otherwise?
Yeah, I have bear and snakes and such. Big cities do not.
Same here, I have all the above...Just less people and I love that!
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