How come everyone on MN is 'rural'?

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I'm not rural

My teenager used to be sporty but 6 weeks of lockdown has shown me that the line between sporty and sloth is thinner than one might imagine.

Couldn't think of anything worse than being rural. Everything I need is right on my doorstep

What's that got to do with the price of turnips?

I'd say I'm in a surbarban area. It's a village in the greenbelt just inside the M25.

Rural. 30 minutes or so from supermarket/town. We are on the edge of a small village surrounded by fields. Sheep out the front. Tractors rattling past all the time. No taxis. No takeaway deliveries. 40 minutes to hospital. I am always moaning that I would rather live in a city but, to be honest, in the current situation I am bloody delighted to live in the countryside.

Everyone on MN has a partner with a Very Important Job who works long hours.

Many will have lived in London when they were younger but have since moved out for more affordable housing and a better quality of life. How people perceive rural isn't defined by where they're from. I'm from a city and would never think the suburbs were rural. To me rural means village or hamlet. Possibly also a small more remote market town.

Couldn’t think of anything worse than not being rural at the moment. But that’s just me. I’d go insane in a city flat. I need views and space and quiet.

It often feels like the vast majority are in cities and can't imagine not having Uber/Just Eat etc

It does, doesn't it [grin[

I guess we could be described as being semi rural. Our village is 5 miles from the nearest large town.

I'm very urban

I should add. I wouldn't see an urban village as rural. It's the countryside that's rural.

Depends what you mean by rural. It's all relative.

"In 2015, 11.4 million people lived in a predominantly rural area, 20.7% of the England population."

That's a lot of peeps.

I'm rural. I live on top of a hill, down a farm track surrounded by fields, cows in some and crops in the others. We do have two neighbours who also live down our track but it's still extremely quiet - or would be if the blooming skylarks weren't bellowing at the top of their tiny little lungs from dawn til dusk! LOL

I say I'm rural because I am. And I love it.

We’re semi rural (?). If I go that way, I’m in the countryside. Best of both worlds.

I imagine that people who are rural feel the need to mention it because it's relevant to whatever they are posting about, such as why their children can't walk to school.

I'm urban and definitely guilty of forgetting that other people can't jump on the bus at all hours, walk to a corner shop, or get help from a neighbour who lives very near.

I live in London zone 5. Many think that is rural.

Suburban. Very suburban, but fortunately (particularly so at present), rural can be found 500m away.

One of my running routes covers the whole lot from suburb to city centre, to industrial estates to rural and back home again

I was brought up very rural. It's not for me thanks.

Everyone on MN has a partner with a Very Important Job who works long hours.

Except for the ones who have cocklodgers, or Bs they should L., that is.

Couldn't think of anything worse than being rural. Everything I need is right on my doorstep
What's that got to do with the price of turnips?

Being rural, everything I need is literally right on my doorstep nowadays, including turnips if I want them from the veg box man. Milk, eggs, meat, fish from other local suppliers and then everything else we need from online sources.

We live on the edge of a large city:it's very suburban where I live and abit boring.My own childhood was much more interesting;I grew up on a council with some drug dealers living next door and one Christmas day we had Santa's Christmas elves turn up dressed as armed response officers who told us to lock our windows and doors and stay away from the windows as the next door was harbouring a gunman who'd shot someone.

I live in north London. I love that people are from all over the place on MN, and their lives can be so the same and so different.

'Predominantly rural' describes round here to a T.

The county I live in doesn't even have a city.

I have also noted this OP and they don’t drive . Who ( willingly) lives in the middle of nowhere and doesn’t drive or have access to a regular bus service ?

Lol definitely not here. Live on a council estate