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[On It]

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

[Goldengate8361]

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

[Venezia]

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.

[781Florist]

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

[patbz]

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.

[Oznell]

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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@781Florist wrote:

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

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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.

[On It]

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.

[Sooner]

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

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@Sooner wrote:

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

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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.