Are there any small town/rural Atlasians?

[memphis]

No, suburbia doesn't count as a small town.

[Marokai Backbeat]

My county has about 20,000 people and one of the highest unemployment rates in the state. I live in an incredibly rural area (more specifically, I practically live in the woods by the Ohio river) and basically the most important town in my county has a 40% poverty rating.

So yes, rural Atlasian is me.

[Keystone Phil]

I'm sure there are.

I've always thought that there aren't many big city members. I'm pretty sure Philly is the major city with the most active forum members.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Jake and Snowguy.

[Scam of God]

Depends.

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I myself live in a very small (pop. ~300) town, but I'm no more than five minutes outside of St. Louis opposite the river, nestled right next to Cahokia, a few miles south of East St. Louis, and fifteen or so out of Belleville, Millstadt, and Mascoutah. So I get all of the benefits of urban life and very few of the drawbacks.

[Rowan]

Yes, small town for me. Population less than 4,000.

[Bacon King]

I did, if you consider unincorporated Barrow County, Georgia of the 90's to be rural. I lived in a house on a country road with pastures in every direction. Now most of these former cow pastures have subdivisions on them. Atlanta suburbs began to really encroach on the county while I was in middle school, and now it basically is an extension of suburbia, sadly.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I live in a small town.  

It doesn't seem as small as it is, though.  We have a regional draw of around 80,000 people that regularly do businesses here.

edit:  do business.

[jokerman]

Batesville, AR, is a town of roughly 10,000 people, in a county of 35k, surrounded by several counties of like size.  So yes, a small town surrounded by rural areas.

[exopolitician]

Sandston, VA only has a population of about 11,000. Sucks.

[dead0man]

People on the coasts might think so.

[they don't love you like i love you]

People on the coasts might think so.

No you aren't rural by any remotely logical definition of the word.

[dead0man]

Of course not.  I do drive past a few miles of corn fields on my way to work (although less and less every year).

[they don't love you like i love you]

I've seen deer near my work building before, and that's only a 20 minute drive away. That sort of thing doesn't mean much.

[dead0man]

We've got a little creek that runs sort of near our house so we get the occasional odd thing.  Wild Turkey, box turtles, 'coons, bobcats and the like.  We can get Mountain Lions (cougar,panther,puma, whatever you want to call them) down this far, but they are very rare.

[Scam of God]

Incidentally, what does this question matter? Aside from a few rural rednecks who spout off about the inviolate morality of the Rural American Everyman, I see no evidence to suggest that it's preferable to live in a small town than it is to live in a large city.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Bangor is a city but is pretty small by the standards of most places (even with all the students there, the population is probably only around 20,000, if that. Summer population is around 12,000 IIRC). And I spent much of my childhood in the end terrace of a row of old farm labourer's cottages.

[Jake]

Town of 2,000; county of 25,000. Yes. Even at college I live in a town of ~3-4,000.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I don't. I live in a city of 750,000 people, though I've seen buffalo in Golden Gate Park.

[JSojourner]

Is Gmantis a country boy?  Aside from Grand Forks and Fargo, I am not sure there are any real "cities" in North Dakota.  Does Bismark qualify? 

I always considered myself country bred because, for part of my youth anyway, I grew up in Mansfield, Ohio -- about 50-thousand people but about as bumpkin and hillbilly as it gets.  But I have also lived in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Chicago and now Fort Wayne. 

There are cornfields within a half mile of my house.  Does that count?

[Keystone Phil]

Is Gmantis a country boy?  Aside from Grand Forks and Fargo, I am not sure there are any real "cities" in North Dakota.  Does Bismark qualify? 

GMantis is from Bulgaria. 

[RI]

I live in an unincoporated portion of Snohomish County, which has almost 700,000 residents, but most of them live nowhere near me. I am out in the northwest portion of the county, near Stanwood, a hick-filled, drug-ridden town of 4,000. Of course, it still takes a half hour to reach the nearest store of any kind from my house, and I either have to pass through miles of forest, and Indian reservation, or forest and then farmland in a river valley.

For some reason, the precinct (quite large) I live in has a nasty propensity for voting Republican. I was really hoping it might vote Dem last year, but alas, no such luck (It voted 49%-48% McCain). Despite that, it is a very beautiful area, and I live only a "block" from the beach. There is a wonderful golf course nearby too. Most people in my neck of the woods are not poor, but there are definitely some impoverished areas not too far from where I live (not including the Indian reservation).

[they don't love you like i love you]

Is Gmantis a country boy?  Aside from Grand Forks and Fargo, I am not sure there are any real "cities" in North Dakota.  Does Bismark qualify? 

GMantis is from Bulgaria. 

And Bismarck is significantly bigger than Grand Forks.

[DownWithTheLeft]

Town of less than 20,000, but county has near a million

[Eraserhead]

Yes. I live in a small, rural area in upstate New York. I'm from The Bronx originally though.