Where do you live?

[cali]

[H2O Man]

1. Right here.

I'm in my house. Why is there a poll about where I live?

[cali]

2. curiosity

sparked largely by the thread about rural areas and many of the comments. There's a lot of contempt for rural America here.

[H2O Man]

4. Yes.

I was making a feeble attempt at humor. I agree with you.

[patrice]

7. : - )

Good Morning H2O Man!

Thanks for the chuckle.

I'm off to a counter-teaparty rally.

Have a pleasant day.

:hi:

[H2O Man]

9. I will, thank you.

I'm getting ready to enjoy a meal with my congressional representative tomorrow. So, I'm looking through DU, printing out a few of the OPs that I think are important to pass on to him.

Have a great day!

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. What's an exurban area?

I haven't heard that term before.

[cali]

5. from wiki

Exurbs
The expression exurb (for "extra-urban") was coined by Auguste Comte Spectorsky in his 1955 book The Exurbanites to describe the ring of prosperous communities beyond the suburbs that are commuter towns for an urban area.<1> Most exurbs serve as commuter towns, but most commuter towns are not exurban.

Exurbs are not unique to the United States. They are also found in other land-rich developed countries, notably Canada. Reasons for exurban growth vary. In the 1970s, rampant crime and urban decay in U.S. cities was the primary 'push force', whereas exurban growth has continued in the 2000s even as most U.S. cities experience plummeting crime and urban revitalization. However, house prices have skyrocketed, so middle-class people who want a large yard or farm are pushed beyond suburban counties.

Exurbs vary in wealth and education level. Exurban areas typically have much higher college education levels than closer-in suburbs, and have average incomes much higher than nearby rural counties. Depending on local circumstances, some exurbs have higher poverty levels than suburbs nearer the city. Others (like Loudoun County, Virginia outside Washington, D.C. and Ozaukee County, Wisconsin near Milwaukee) have some of the highest median household incomes in their respective metropolitan areas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_town#Exurbs

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Interesting. I didn't even know where I lived until now.

You're never too old to learn........

(As long as Publisher's Clearing House knows, I'm not worried)

[pipi_k]

8. Rural. My closest (human) neighbors are 1/5 mile away.

37 square miles, population roughly 1300.

20 miles from the nearest sizable city

[DefenseLawyer]

10. Are you with that damn Census?

Don't answer people! It's a trap!

[cwydro]

11. I live in the Florida Keys,

so I don't really qualify under any of those.

We're very blue here though.

[SidneyCarton]

12. Riverside, CA is either Suburban or Exurban....

But the Southern California is one gigantic suburb, so go figure.

[safeinOhio]

13. Small town USA

Village of 316. Ten miles from a town of 38,000. I'm calling it rural.

[Warpy]

14. I have managed to thrive in cities and small towns

but move me into a suburb and I wilt and start to die.

I'd probably do OK in a rural area, but I'd need that satellite internet.

[SeekerBlue]

15. Downtown, state capital

Love it. No suburbs for me, thanks. Raised in a small Southern town. Prefer that to the burbs.