How come everyone on MN is 'rural'?

[managedmis]

I'm not rural

I live in a village with fields in front of us and behind us, with huge plots (acre plus) so neighbours aren't close, wildlife in the garden (bats,owls, foxes, bunnies, deer, pheasants) not completely rural but pretty rural compared with many however not terrible connections as there is a train stop here & a bus & a village shop and pub (about a mile down the road - long thin spread out village)

I'm in a small village in north Wales so yes rural

Pmsl that this thread has become all about the competitive ruralness.

"Well I live in a cave and shit in a bucket and my best friend is a hemlock so yes I think you'll find I'm rural OP."

I'm a townie in a rural area. The school keeps posting facebook videos of things like rainbows and toilet roll passing and new sports skills etc etc and it is fascinating to see that a LOT of the kids at our school are living the rural idyl. I'm so jealous.

I truly am rural .Little village .Love it could never live in a big City or town.

I've noticed this. I don't believe most of them

Born central London, now living in the centre of another city. Love city-life.

I’m in zone 2!

I am from a very rural area though, if that counts?

I'm rural.
My garden backs on to a tiny church that is used once every three months, in rotation with a couple of other tiny churches.

I'm rural. We have no streetlights, no pavements, no public transport and no gritters in the winter. We also have no takeaway deliveries.

I am rural. Can't see another house from the front, and from the back i can see a couple of village houses and the church spire. Surrounded by fields and farmland. I love it.

Oh, I don't know how I'd describe my area. Not a city, not rural. Town, but not the centre. Parking problems. M25 isn't that far away.

Grew up rural on a sheep station 3.5 hrs from the nearest town, now live in red brick Suburbia, Australia

We also have no takeaway deliveries.

I think this really has to be the benchmark.

If you stick your postcode in Deliveroo and it comes back with "We're not there yet", you're rural.

No you're not, we don't have Deliveroo and we're not rural. Uber Eats is available but I'd expect that having your food picked up by taxi would be expensive and I'd rather just go and collect it, or pick it up when I'm out and about anyway as deliveries tend to take ages.

Im really rural. Small holding in Snowdonia. Nearest house: mile away
Supermarket: 8 miles
Village shop: 2 miles:
School: 2 miles
Train station:15 miles

So i have the mountains to myself which is absolute bliss.

Oh and Deliveroo/just eat/über will never be a thing here

This report defines rural as living in a town or village with a population of below 10,000 people.

I live in a market town of about 3,000 and say that this is rural because we cannot get Deliveroo, dominos pizza (or any other chain pizza for that matter), Uber or any other service most urban people would expect.

Much like the previous poster.

Forgot the report!

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachmentdata/file/597751/DefininggruralareasMarr2017_.pdf

There is rural and rural, a village surrounded by. Fields is rural, but not as rural as a cottage in the middle of the Peak District with no neighbours for miles and that is not as rural as a cottage on a small island round Shetland or up a mountain.

Definitely no Deliveroo here! Much to my teens angst.

Speaking for myself, I'm a country member.

Speaking for myself, I'm a country member.

Yes, we remember.

We'd probably be classed as rural but I lived in Ireland where rural is literally in a field with no neighbours closer than a mile so my view is skewed I think. I don't consider us rural but others do when I say where I live

I'm rural, edge of tiny village and surrounded by fields. It's over rated and I have wanted to move since DC grew up.
However I developed have massive new appreciation for my location the last 6 weeks. I can walk miles around farm tracks without seeing people which would be impossible in the sort of place I want to move to. I'm shielding so would otherwise be housebound.