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This is Rural!

On It — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:33:27 GMT

This is an photo of rural living here in the West.

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Goldengate8361 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:35:23 GMT

Oh my goodness....pretty, but I think I'd die! Not for me.....I like cities.

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Venezia — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:48:04 GMT

I live rural and wouldn't have it any other way, but I like trees and more scenery. Too bleak for me; looks dry and dusty.

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781Florist — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:50:43 GMT

They better give a huge tip to the Door Dash driver.

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patbz — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:54:07 GMT

My community is considered rural; we have 13000 full time residents, A Safeway, Wal-Mart and a full service hospital ( with 2 helicopters parked in front). That's the way I like my rural.

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Oznell — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:58:39 GMT

I love it, @On It , with the few, hazy blue peaks interrupting the distant horizon!

I like so many different places, but the West, with its poetic empty spaces, has unlimited appeal for me. Would just need a faint, wailing sound of a train in the distance, thundering to parts unknown...

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On It — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:02:35 GMT

@781Florist wrote:
They better give a huge tip to the Door Dash driver.

Sadly, there is no restaurant to send the driver dashing. High speed internet is not there. TV is satellite. Cable does not serve these areas. QVC is made for an area like this. It is likely one of their few at home shopping options. Catalogs are disappearing.

My mother's cousin lived in an area like this. They had huge chest freezers and froze bread and gallons of milk. They drove a long distance to a town once a month to buy groceries.

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On It — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:06:42 GMT

I am reposting the map of our population centers. Look West where lights get sparse. This house could be anywhere in one of the dark areas.

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Sooner — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:08:31 GMT

I couldn't do it. I couldn't go 15 miles west of where I live.

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On It — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:12:56 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I couldn't do it. I couldn't go 15 miles west of where I live.

I could not do it either. We travel through an area like this often. I tell my husband every time through there I could not do it, and I grew up in a rural area. At least we had a country store and a 20 minute drive to a town.

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kaydee50 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:20:23 GMT

I'd be suicidal within 24 hours! Not for me.

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On It — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:20:32 GMT

This area is considered rural, too. Not all rural areas out West are dry and desolate.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:23:58 GMT

@On It. I'd say so. How about this? Right down the hill from my house in Corrales, NM. Th3 birds are Sandhill Cranes.

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SilleeMee — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:35:42 GMT

Colorado has a lot of open spaces. But something like 75% of it is owned by the government...US Forrest, State/City Parks, BLM, wildlife refuges.

ETA-

It's sort of misleading but if you flattened all of the mountains and hills in Colorado, it would make it bigger than Texas in square miles.

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Kalli — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:27:38 GMT

Beautiful! Would like to visit it but wouldn't choose to live there.

I love the outdoors but prefer woods with lots of trees. If I had my way I'd buy back our former cabin in the woods that was within walking distance of a small lake in PA.

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haddon9 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:37:01 GMT

@Venezia wrote:
I live rural and wouldn't have it any other way, but I like trees and more scenery. Too bleak for me; looks dry and dusty.

Agreed! I need some green & trees. I like a semi rural area that is not far from people and communities.

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Desertdi — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:39:23 GMT

Phoenix:

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Citrine1 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:50:15 GMT

I like it but it looks like a place where you'd find snakes, and I wouldn't like that.

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SilleeMee — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:59:48 GMT

@On It wrote:
This is an photo of rural living here in the West.

That is the kind of place where some recluse serial killer might live and have the bodies buried out in that desert somewhere nearby to visit when things get lonely.

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Kachina624 — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 01:09:50 GMT

@SilleeMee. @On It. That picture looks like the area outside of Roswell. Lots of antelope there and it's sheep country.