How come everyone on MN is 'rural'?

[managedmis]

I'm not rural

Not rural, but 5 minutes from endless woods and the horse is, of course, at a rural yard, but his far field is bounded by one of the UK’s main motorways, so many acres of pastoral, silence and nature, a lake then boom, motorway in the distance!

I live in an damp old millhouse in the south west, half a mile from the next house and not a bus route within 5 miles. Rural and love it.

I’m suburban & happy.

I am semi rural which sounds very wanky. Left turn out of my road=2 miles to a town past lots of houses and a school. Right turn-narrow country lane, farm, tractors, muck spreading, horses in fields, tiny church etc.
I once posted a tongue in cheek AIBU about asking the farmer to stop muck spreading as it makes my washing on the line smell and that didn't go down well.

I think there's a mixture on MN, it doesn't feel like everyone lives in the sticks.

I'm rural and have a sensible teen!
I always felt the Mumsnet demographic was more London-centric though.

I'm rural, and yes there are flats which are rural. My place is a very old, large building which has been converted to flats, it's outside of the nearest village (hamlet) with nothing but a lane alongside....

It may come as a surprise to many but Britain is mainly rural, take a look at a map.

I have a sensible teen. Is that bad? It's good when they drive off in the car!

I thought everyone on mumsnet lives in London!

I think many people live in new town developments like Milton Keynes - technically rural but also more city-like than actual cities. Then of course there’s the London-set who think North London is rural.

I'm semi rural, no husband , ex is definitely not high up in anything other than the twat league tables.

We're semi-rural on the edge of a 'town' which isn't really, it's a village with grand aspirations. Population is just over 3,000. We're surrounded by cornfields and the nearest McDonalds is half an hour up the motorway.

@GrumpyHoonMain

only south Londoners think that. And we are correct.

I thought everyone lived in big cities. I know I've had this face done at me many a time over the years when I've said that I can't get public transport to work, and I don't live within walking distance of a park. Everyone on Mumsnet always talks about taking their kids to the park every day when they go out for a walk and I was flat out called a liar once when I said there is no park in my village

Public transport is so bad where I'm from that the first time I ever caught a bus was when I went to university, and that's despite having been brought up in a decent sized town.

We are rural, in a village surrounded by fields. I have two teens, I wouldn't use sensible to describe either of them.

I always thought majority on here were from London.

I grew up in a house with nothing but hills and fields and cows at the back but it was right on the outskirts of a city.

MNHQ has published maps of MNer locations: heavily London.

I thought everyone on MN lived in a flat with noisy upstairs neighbours and a problematic communal garden.

I’d say semi-rural: close to public road, but nearest neighbour about half-a-mile away, 3 miles to village of 1,000 people, 15 miles from supermarket which is in the kind of town that has a Boots and a Next but no boutiques and no suburbs.
I don’t have a teen but can’t imagine my kid will be “sensible” even as a pensioner. Xx

I'd describe our current house as semi rural... It's a military camp a mile from the edge of a reasonable sized town, with farms between us and town. It is possible to walk into town, but as we are on top of a long steep hill so it's a bit of a slog home. We have a dodgy phone signal and poor broadband quality. We also get an awesome view of stars due to low light pollution.

We are reasonably rural
Our nearest neighbours are 1/2 a mile away. Then a mile the other way. We have 200 acres of woodland behind us. We have Roe deer, muntjac deer and 100s of pheasant in the garden!
The nearest village is about a mile and a half which contains a few houses and a shop and a pub.

Then the nearest town is 6 miles. A medium sized market town.

Dh is currently upstairs and we live near the top of a hill. Does that make us high up? It's quite a small hill though.

We’re very rural. Also renting and poor as church mice. Mumsnet is everyone