How come everyone on MN is 'rural'?

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I'm not rural

Am i rural? 18 houses on my side of the main road (an A road) 4 on the other side. All around us are fields, some woodland and a river.

Small Town. Our County is considered mostly rural with lots of small towns and villages.

So maybe not rural at all

We rural
No traffic lights, only 4 street lights in main street.
Nothing open late, even the pub is closed by midnight
No uber, no ubereats or deliveroo but we do have 2 pubs for a town of about 1000 people lol, local school is about 300 students, thats R - yr 12
No buses apart from 1 daily to and from city, coach bus, not regular public bus,
1 taxi for the whole peninsula
The real estate agent in town also sells livestock food, like hay, grains, chook pellets and the like. Also sells poisons and gun stuff for the farmers
Major shops are an hour away, we have 1 small 'supermarket'. No furniture or electrical shops, 1 clothes shop and its CRAP.

Rural? Hell no, I live in a flat in a big city. I used to live in a village ages ago and it wasn't for me. I am a townie at heart.

This thread is interesting and has made me laugh.
Not to derail but am I suburban rather than urban ? I think suburban.

Zone 2 in London (teenager definitely not sensible) so ten mins on the train into central London. Living in a residential road with a row of shops (grocers, butchers, bookshop, pub.. almost a village feel) less than a minute away.

Am I suburban?

Is anyone else starting to find the word 'rural' really odd?!

Have lived rural, have lived in London, have lived in houses, flats, a van, my tent, with friends. Never had a partner high up in government, have dated millionaires but prefer people who don't have that lifestyle or come from anything like that, am only just onto the property ladder despite being nearly 40, I think it depends on the thread whether someone comes across as one thing over another. We choose to open what we are attracted to. Or bored enough to.

My spouse is high up in a low place.

Oh and my teenager is 31.

I'm rural.
Small Yorkshire village. It's only 10 miles from the town though.

Very very few people in the UK genuinely live very rurally

‘Rural’ simply means ‘ in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town‘.

I live rurally, in an AONB. Surrounded by woodland. Horses in the field at the bottom of the garden, deer sightings every day, owls hooting loudly every night, no light pollution, can see the stars v clearly, people are friendly and say ‘hello’ .... it’s heaven.

No buses or food deliveries. Driving is essential.

I lived in central London for most of my life, never again after living like this I couldn’t go back.

on MN 'rural' means 'not central London'. Just look at the 'rural living' board for a giggle.

Yep, I’m definitely rural.
No house within half a mile. Surrounded by fields and a woodland.
Nearest town/village with a supermarket is 5 miles away. No bus services nearby.
No streetlights. No cats eyes in the road.

I thought most on MN live in London /SE and their dh is a frightfully high earner.
My teenagers were anything but sensible, just like I was. In fact I am very suspicious of sensible teenagers. Will they be experimental at 35 instead?

BTW We are only semi - rural. To be properly rural around here would involve robbing a bank.

I'm rural. I live on the edge of a village,we have no public transport, no takeaways, dodgy internet service, no 4G, no mobile signal most of the time (although there is a walk-in cupboard in the kitchen that fares well when a phone signal is needed...1 bar on a good day!) and we don't get our post delivered until 2pm at the earliest.

I feel really selfish and I know that I am going to sound it but I am wondering where the help is for families with disabled kids, (the schools aren’t open and offering places as it’s reported!)in today’s briefing there was a lot of emphasis
again on domestic abuse, I have a lot of sympathy for people in the situation but what about all the kids that have lost their structure and parents who have lost their only break! I am trying to home school 3 other kids, carry on going to work and deal with my eldest who has severe autism and learning difficulties, coz we cope and function ok we aren’t classed as vulnerable, sorry for long rant think I’m just fed up today, as everyone else is i am sure!

It is all relative isn't it? Some of the places people have described on here sound like inner cities compared to where I live. Yet my location is clearly nowhere near as isolated as others'.
When my DD was about 4 we visited friends in a fairly upmarket suburb of Manchester. Whilst there, we were asked if we wanted to walk into "the village" for icecreams. My DD was clearly confused and on the way back to their house said in a very bad stage whisper "This isn't a very good village. There's buses!"
But to their kids it was a village, because it wasn't the city

I’m rural, village centre, but MN always seems to be full of posters in city centres fretting about school admissions and whether they have a chance of getting into a school more than 200 m away.

We have a village school. You only don’t go there if you chose not to, and go to the non-faith school in a different village. Everyone ends up at the same high school, there isn’t any choice.

It seems as if more posters think everyone else lives in London than those who do. Likely quite a lot who moved to London when young have long since left for a better quality of life elsewhere.

I think it’s quite strange that people think everyone lives in one area/type of house. I always got the impression that there’s a real mix of people on here.

I live somewhere considered semi rural. On the edge of a village, surrounded by fields and countryside.
My mam really was rural. To get from her front door to the nearest A road, it was almost half a mile on dirt track, a mile or so on an 'unnamed road', then a mile and a half or so on a lane (B road) to connect to an A road.
You could see two neighbours from her house, however, so not totally isolated (they were both about half a mile away?)
She loved it, would never dream of living anywhere else, but she had animals - donkeys, llamas, goats, dogs, assorted cats😁 and I think that makes a huge difference.

According to ONS 17% of population live in a rural area:

www.gov.uk/government/publications/rural-population-and-migration/rural-population-201415

But there's a MN much stricter definition which is more like remote.

The metropolitan borough council of where I live in South Yorkshire is 80% rural.