What kind of person do you consider yourself?

[JA]

This question should be considered in light of how you grew up (the setting), shere you live now, where you prefer to live, what sort of culture more aligns with your values (however you believe that should be interpreted), and so on.

Personally, I consider myself more of a country person. I grew up on dirt roads in the woods without shops around for miles and that's how I like to live. And although my values often conflict with those of country folks, I generally get along better with them and find them more pleasant to be around. I feel more comfortable in a Cracker Barrel than a Starbucks.

[HillGoose]

Yeah as much as I hate to admit it I guess like, I was raised in a rural lifestyle and still live that way. I hate it though. But I mean, whatever. I'll get out of here someday.

[Technocracy Timmy]

Half suburbanite half urbanite.

All elitist.

[TDAS04]

I like smallish urban areas that are fairly dense in amenities, culture, and diverse places to eat.  I also love parks and green space.  I was born in the college town of Iowa City, but don't remember living there.  I've lived in Sioux Falls--a small city with lots of suburban feel and lots of people connected to the countryside--since I was a baby.  Nonetheless, I think Iowa City is a better fit for me.

I voted urbanite, but I tend to be an urbanite who needs some nature and slowness in life.

[Lourdes]

I've lived in the suburbs my entire life.

[morgankingsley]

Possibly suburbanite

[100% pro-life no matter what]

A total suburbanite

[Peanut]

100% urbanite.

[Del Tachi]

Elitist country folk

[Reaganfan Democrat]

Suburbanite at heart who lives as an urbanite and larps as a country boy.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Hard to say. Country in a lot of emotional/~spiritual~ ways but more suburban than not in terms of life experience after early childhood (early childhood was pure country). However, all things considered,

I feel more comfortable in a Cracker Barrel than a Starbucks.

[Cokeland Saxton]

Urbanite/Suburbanite. I live in an area with a bunch of mid-sized cities.

[Dr. MB]

I've lived my entire life in suburbia but f**k it (but it reaaaaally depends on the suburb, usually the older they are the better). Rural areas are nice but would be too boring for me to want to live there. So I've gotta say urbanite.

[Gracile]

Thought this thread was going to be something way deeper when I clicked on it...

[OSR stands with Israel]

I've lived my entire life in suburbia but f**k it (but it reaaaaally depends on the suburb, usually the older they are the better). Rural areas are nice but would be too boring for me to want to live there. So I've gotta say urbanite.

Washington County is amazing

[Dr. MB]

I've lived my entire life in suburbia but f**k it (but it reaaaaally depends on the suburb, usually the older they are the better). Rural areas are nice but would be too boring for me to want to live there. So I've gotta say urbanite.

Washington County is amazing

It's pretty mixed. Some parts are nice and some are utter trash.

[Xing]

Urbanite, and I prefer other cafes to Starbucks, so how's that for elitist?

[YE]

Hard to say. Country in a lot of emotional/~spiritual~ ways but more suburban than not in terms of life experience after early childhood (early childhood was pure country). However, all things considered,

I feel more comfortable in a Cracker Barrel than a Starbucks.

Something like this.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Forever adrift. I live in a walkable suburb with a decent downtown and work in a large city, but forever longing to get better access to the wilderness, cheaper COL, and less stressful driving conditions. Hopefully one day I’ll square the circle by living in walking distance of the main thoroughfare of a small town in a rural area.

[Lechasseur]

Urbanite/suburbanite

I've lived in both so I've experienced both.

In Europe I'm an urbanite but in the US I'd most likely be a suburbanite.

[Lechasseur]

The only place on Earth where the countryside would have any real appeal to me would be the UK (in particular Southern England and the Midlands).

[dead0man]

I grew up in an urban/suburban mix (with rural not all that faraway), spent some time in all three as adult, but urban the last 20 years or so.

[JA]

Hard to say. Country in a lot of emotional/~spiritual~ ways but more suburban than not in terms of life experience after early childhood (early childhood was pure country). However, all things considered,

I feel more comfortable in a Cracker Barrel than a Starbucks.

It's funny how we are quite similar in this regard.

Under age 8 I lived in the suburban part of Jacksonville on a dirt road without street lights, surrounded by woods. We had chickens. There were farms nearby, but also convenience stores, a library, box stores, and all that within just a few miles. From age 8-13 we lived in the unincorporated parts of St. Augustine on dirt roads with no city water or street lights. The closest grocery store was 5 miles away and we were surrounded by woods and swamps. Our neighbors were proud rednecks who drove huge trucks, flew Confederate flags, always wore camo, and hunted in the woods around our home. Then, they started tearing down the woods, building planned communities around us. It spread and spread, building more and more everywhere around us. Just before we moved last year, they were beginning construction on an enormous planned community 1 mile from my old house that is going to have an enormous manmade lagoon surrounded by half a million dollar houses.

While I grew up mostly in the country, the suburbs encroached upon us. All of our old neighbors moved away, unable to afford the area anymore. My family has held resentment about that encroachment, having to watch the woods we lived around be torn down for houses nobody around us could ever afford, watching our neighbors all disappear until we finally gave up and left too.

I miss the country living I had. I disliked going into the big city of Jacksonville and absolutely never went downtown. We always went to St. Augustine instead; much smaller and nicer. And that's how I'd like to live again. In the rural, forested areas outside of a small city.

[thumb21]

I've always lived in towns. Up until I was 14, I lived in a town of 34,000 and from then onwards I lived in a town of 6,000. From last week, I've moved to a city centre for University. I've always prefered living in and have identified with small towns as they are not off the grid but I still get to enjoy going somewhere and driving through fields or forests, rather than traffic and concrete.

[Wazza [INACTIVE]]

A Suburbanite.