Rurality - are we there yet?

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Originally posted by JWFITZ
I believe the area I grew up in would fit most definitions of rural. A desert county in the west, in which the county seat where I lived had a population of perhaps 3000, and there were a number of towns in the vicinity(at least on a continental scale) that had populations of 20 or less, with names like Ash, Antelope, and Cinnabar. One room school houses were not unknown, and the definition of a town was more or less where mail is delivered. From that perspective, I don't find most of Puna, or especially the Pahoa region, rural in the slightest. In fact, I think as a possible instructive place to draw the line I might offer this: anyplace where a trip to a proper grocery store can be accomplished in a sensible period of time, maybe less than half a day, is probably not really very rural.

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I don't think it particularly relevant to the conversation but I would point out that the above is a Western description. There are many areas in the East that I would consider rural, including where some of my relatives live. They reside on farms in North Carolina that have been in the family for generations. They would not fit that description based on distance. However, they live very rural, self sufficient lifestyles. Distances in the East have always been closer than in the West.

I got a laugh one day when riding with my uncle. He explained that he was going to take the back roads to avoid the city traffic, while traveling to our destination. The city he was avoiding was about the size of Pahoa and had one light, which never backed up. He stayed to the narrow black top farm roads and avoided the “city traffic”.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.