City or country?

[TallahasseeGrannie]

Poll question: City or country?

I'm interested in finding out where DU'ers live.

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. I'm in a subdivision...

Not exactly a huge city, but not a small town either. I'm on the edge of a city of 250,000.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Subdivision in a rural area??

I voted subdivision but we are out of town.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

3. That's actually my situation, too, BOSS.

BTW..your dogwoods and azaleas out yet? Did they survive?

[BOSSHOG]

4. The azaleas around here are blooming pretty .

Our looks a little ragged because of katrina. But thanks to her they get a lot more sunshine now. The continued ban on burning has our back yard a continued mess. We don't have dogwoods but our Redbuds are alive and well and fixing to pop out all over the place. Our Crepe Myrtles look great as well. We lost a lot of pine trees and one oak but the only one I miss is one ten foot crepe myrtle pulled completely out of the ground. It was in a row of six down our driveway. The rest are doing great. Thanks for asking.

[EFerrari]

10. What is a Redbud? The unusual cold we're having is

actually making my city rose garden nice and hardy. Everybody else (in their planters or containers) looks a little daunted, a little worse for wear.

[BOSSHOG]

15. A very beautiful

spring blooming tree:



Very nice and easy to grow, much easier than dogwoods. The green foliage is also very attractive after blooming and through the late fall.

[EFerrari]

16. That IS beautiful I've never seen it before.

:)

[BOSSHOG]

17. Does good under larger trees

Very low maintenance, doesn't get too high, maybe 20 feet. Makes a spectacular spring display. Ours is centered on our south window and is just about a week away from showtime.

[0007]

5. Village

[Igel]

6. Living in an urban area,

would prefer to live in suburban or rural area. But that would mean my wife has a longer commute. Time is precious, so urban it is. For now.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Urban, with reservations.

It's not what I think of when I think 'urban', but small town is too small. Near downtown of a middlin size city, can bike to work every day, but when I think urban I think density and the area is pretty sprawled out.

[maveric]

8. San Diego. Urban/Suburban sprawl.

Its getting crowded here but no way near the mess of Los Angeles.

[northofdenali]

9. City has about 20,000, entire borough has 82,000

but the borough is as large or larger than many small states.

SO I'm sorta in the suburbs of Fairbanks, which is a small city, in a big borough that is very much unpopulated..........

SO I'm confused!

[blindpig]

11. 15 miles out of town...

we got cows across the road, I guess that's rural?

Spent my first 29 years in the big city with the white marble steps, never again!

[TX-RAT]

19. Dang, ya beat me 13.5 miles

But my driveways about a mile and a half does that count?

[gilpo]

12. Subdivision in the Suburbs

All my neighbors are Republicans. Can't wait to put up my lawn signs! Heheheh!

[readmoreoften]

13. Sorry. What the heck's a subdivision? nt

[TallahasseeGrannie]

22. Subdivision?

I'd define it as single family houses of similar size in a planned community. Ranges from huge to small.

[readmoreoften]

24. BhLAHLhAHAHAHA...

I'm glad I don't live in one of those. That sounds scary.

My friends and I have been dreaming about starting a punk lesbian trailer park... that'd be a fun planned community though! :evilgrin:

[Odin2005]

31. The new 'burbs on the outskirts of Fargo are ugly.

The older residential areas close to downtown have much more character, right down to the gardens and old elm trees whose branches meet over the middle of the street, like the vaulted arches of a cathedral.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

37. Oh, they aren't so bad

I prefer older houses like I grew up in in NJ..big old Victorians. But my subdivision is in a rural area, lots of trees, hills, etc. The houses are new and convenient...by "planned" I mean the city planning process. The houses were mostly spec houses, built by contractors. I guess there is a legal definition of subdivision that I don't really know. Basically, a tract of land is platted out, houses built and sold. Eventually schools added, etc. Suburban life.

Punk lesbian trailer park. I'm seeing pink? Retro? Flamingos.

[readmoreoften]

39. Pink, Retro, Flamingos, the whole shebang.

We won't be exclusive, though. We have a few straight guys who are our buddies and political allies. We call 'em lesbros. :headbang:

[ArbustoBuster]

14. I can't vote in this :)

Many of us who live in older suburbs don't live in subdivisions.

[mandyky]

18. Urban bedroom / college town

I think our population is around 125,000 including EKU students. Richmond, Kentucky is only 40 miles (about an hour drive) from Lexington, Kentucky, our second largest city in KY (I think).

I live right off of main street, so I am right in town.

[SmokingJacket]

20. Edge of a small city.

Can walk to get groceries, school, work, library, po, etc.

A quick bike ride to woods and hiking trails and farms.

We picked it because we didn't want to depend on a car.

Every now and then I'm shocked at how perfect this place is for me...

[High Plains]

21. On the side of a mountain in British Columbia, 15 miles to town

The snow is melting at my altitude, but the pines are still frosted at the top of the mountain.

Lots of deer this winter, which was mild, and soon the bears will be back.

And not a Republican in sight.

[Catherine Vincent]

28. I hate you, really...I do.

:-)

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

23. Rural on 3 acres. Just took a load of branches to the recycler.

My wife and I are ex-city folks from L.A. Moved to the Pacific Northwest 20+ years ago and have never looked back.

[Blue_In_AK]

25. I live in Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska

which isn't all that large - 260,000 or so, but I voted urban since it's all we've got, and I'm about five minutes from downtown.

[jeffrey_X]

26. Urban

And being a white male, I'm a minority in my neighborhood.

[Catherine Vincent]

29. So you live in the hood, eh?

:hi:

[Odin2005]

27. Urban. Downtown Fargo-Moorhead

[Catherine Vincent]

30. I proudly live in a gated community.

:-)

[BlackVelvet04]

32. rural.....

about 12 miles from a town of 6,000 and 17 miles from a town of 92,000 give or take a thousand or two.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

33. Rural.... I think. What would you call Gitmo?

[Cleita]

34. No category for an island paradise in this poll.

:sarcasm:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

35. LOL! If you listened to Rummy you would be thinking of Iraq or Gitmo

as a potential vacation destination this Summer!

[blue neen]

36. Rural Pennsylvania here.

Right in the heart of the "red" part of the state.

[H2O Man]

38. Rural. Very rural.

My driveway used to be a turnpike. My house was a stage coach station, more than 200 years ago. If I look hard enough, I can find neighbors in the distance .....