Which best describes the area you grew up in?

[kyc0705]

No set definitions, you can decide what category your hometown falls under.

[Esteemed Jimmy]

Very rural (population of less than 1000)

[Cokeland Saxton]

Where is "mid-sized town"?

City of just over 50k, near a smaller city of 30k-ish, metro population of 200k, with an adjacent metro area of 320k.

[Cokeland Saxton]

Where is "mid-sized city"?

City of just over 50k, near a smaller city of 30k-ish, metro population of 200k, with an adjacent metro area of 320k.

[Mr. Smith]

Urban.

100K College town next in a metro area of at least 7 million. Wine Country to the north.

[Coastal Elitist]

Growing suburban area surrounded by hills and wine country

[HillGoose]

From when I was born to 14 years were in a very rural area probably what you have as "literally a farm", from 14 to the time I turned 18 were suburban, because I said f it and decided to go live with my grandparents in suburban Nashville.

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Until the age of 10, I lived in a very rural area in NorCal.

From 10 on, I've lived in an urban area.

[TJ in Oregon]

"Suburbs" of a very small city. Voted option 3 but option 2 is also a reasonable description.

[Sestak]

Urban.

[JA]

I voted Exurban.

Until I moved to KC last year I never lived on a paved road or one with a street light. From birth to age 8 I lived on a dirt road in a trailer park in Jacksonville where we had chickens and the neighborhood was encircled with trees. There were even a few farms not far from my home and places where people would ride motorbikes and ATVs just outside the neighborhood. Then I moved to unincorporated St. Augustine, first to a 2-acre property with a pond and a garden which was, again, surrounded by woods, two fields of bulls, and a field of horses on a neighbor's property. Finally, I lived in another part of unincorporated St. Augustine on another dirt road, miles from any other neighborhoods or stores beside 1 gas station along the highway a mile from my home. We had to walk 1/4 mile to our mailbox, had nothing but a forest and swamps surrounding us, and my neighbors were rednecks. When I say rednecks, I mean real rednecks who had large trucks for mudding, owned only pit bulls, would shoot off their guns regularly in their yards, and one had family down the road that never had electricity, had a brother that never went to school and roamed the woods on their property with a gun, and ended up committing suicide by shotgun (like one of his other brothers) during the Recession when he was forced to move back home. 3 of my childhood friends ended up addicted to heroin (that I know of) and several people I knew committed suicide or overdosed.

My family and I eventually left the area, relocating to KC last year, because where we lived had been gentrified and transformed into an expensive, increasingly suburban area that didn't provide promising job opportunities for us or any reason to stay.

[Skunk]

I lived on the outer city limits of Tulsa, so technically urban although my house was closer to the Broken Arrow suburbs than the metropolitan areas of Tulsa. I also went to school in Broken Arrow instead of Tulsa, so I voted suburban.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Sort of unconventional.

Depending on your perspective, it was in a small city or big town, it was reasonably close to but mostly independent of larger metropolitan areas, and rather unassuming. The square mile I lived in was easily the densest in the city, and was reasonably walkable, but was definitely below 10,000 people per square mile, so I'm not sure it could be considered urban. The rest of the city was mostly suburban, albeit in the reasonably compact gridded manner of the West Coast rather than the 1/4 acre lots and cul-de-sacs of the east.

Voted exurban.

[Yellowhammer]

Literally a farm.

[Politician]

Suburban with a town population of approximately 10k people.

[You don't see any blue avatars now]

Urban (2001-2013, 2017-2019)
Suburban (2013-2019)

2017-2019: I lived in Charlotte proper but still went to school in Matthews, so it fits both categories.

[YE]

Between Option 2 and 3.

[RINO Tom]

I guess “Urban,” but I have always associated that term with cities more the size of St. Louis.

[ElectionsGuy]

Muskego, WI. Kind of an uppity suburb.

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Maplehood, MN, a now-dwindling suburb of St. Paul

[Big Abraham]

An unincorporated suburban area (with some rural parts) about a dozen miles from Portland

[Progressive Pessimist]

Suburban. I still live here too.

[scutosaurus]

I live in Atlanta proper, but in a part of the city that's much closer in every way to the northern suburbs than it is to the city center. Voted suburban, but a case could be made for urban as well.

[DINGO Joe]

In KC and New Orleans I lived in suburbs (Prairie Village and Slidell) in Tulsa we lived in the city proper.

[Xing]

Proud urban coastal elitist.