Opinion of people who live in exurbs and claim where they live is "rural"

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Option 3 by far. I've even ran into people from middle suburbs that do this (I've once heard someone claim Circle Pines is rural*) but that's more comical than anything else.

*Fun fact: I once drove up there in the past week with prior notice to provide defense from an Enlightened attack in Ingress. If someone from central Minneapolis can do that and get there in time...

[Goldwater]

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, here's something I never understood. What exactly is the difference between the suburbs and the exurbs?

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

At the risk of sounding like an idiot, here's something I never understood. What exactly is the difference between the suburbs and the exurbs?

If you live in a suburb, a lot of your neighbors and you will commute to work or shop in the urban core if you don't do that in your suburb.  In the exurbs, you are far enough out that while you might commute to the urban core, you also might commute to a suburb closer in.

[Landslide Lyndon]

Worse than Hitler.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Worse than HitlerBRTD.

[DC Al Fine]

I don't care.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

I don't care.

[muon2]

It's a perfectly natural claim if one is speaking to a suburbanite or someone from the urban core. Exurbs are typically areas that house people who commute to a central city or edge cities, but are notable by their proximity to undeveloped areas. In IL that usually means the exurban communities are still surrounded or nearly surrounded by farmland. These exurbs might have been farmland as recently as 10 years ago, so to someone closer to the city they really are rural. Obviously these are not rural communities to anyone who is from a rural area or to a demographer looking at commuting patterns, the rural nature is relative.

[Brittain33]

I don't care.

[Sopranos Republican]

Clearly those who have no grasp of reality.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I don't care.

[memphis]

It's an aspirational thing for people who mentally conflate cities and ghettos. A lot of people don't seem to know that the real rural areas are usually (though not always) depressed armpits as well. At least in my part of the world, builders and realtors market the hell out of new subdivisions as "Country Living!" And with the way things are built today, it's less about suburban v rural than proximity to an interstate on/off ramp. Areas that are far away from anything but the off ramp always get built up first with these silly properties. And then we have to build more interstates with more exits to accomidate these people. The I-40 corridor in eastern Shelby County is such a senseless disaster. Everything about it is so outlandishly wasteful.  And FWIW, calling anything outside of downtown in Memphis "urban" (outside of the black people connotation) is just as equally absurd.

[ElectionsGuy]

Your typical BRTD poll, everybody!

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

Entirely irrelevant to my life and most of those on this forum, so...

I don't care.

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

Lean FF if they're people who have lived in those areas since they were genuinely rural and are trying to 'hold the line', as it were. HP otherwise.

[JerryArkansas]

Entirely irrelevant to my life and most of those on this forum, so...

I don't care.

[badgate]

I would need a regional example to understand this poll.

[RI]

If BRTD hates them, they're probably FFs.

[memphis]

I would need a regional example to understand this poll.

Something like this:
http://m.realtor.com/#details?listing_id=568562975

[muon2]

I would need a regional example to understand this poll.

Kane county, IL has a broad area of exurban growth. Exurban villages there include Elburn (last stop on the commuter train line), Sugar Grove, and Campton Hills. If you pull up the satellite maps and demographic data you'll get the idea.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

My people.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

The worst sort of townie.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Entirely irrelevant to my life and most of those on this forum, so...

I don't care.

[TDAS04]

Entirely irrelevant to my life and most of those on this forum, so...

I don't care.

[TheDeadFlagBlues]

I suppose I do this but my area is more liminal than most:  my neighborhood certainly isn't rural even if it is traditionally rural 5-10 minutes away.