Poll: Which best describes where you live?

I guess it is part of other but still...

technically, noho is a city... but..... yeah, small town. :)

Funny how much my standards have changed - from where I am now, Noho is unquestionably a thriving urban metropolis. A "small town" means "an area with a gas station and maybe a post office where the speed limit drops to 35 MPH for a quarter mile or so."

...i live in a small town, we have 2 gas stations and a pizza place. :-P

we have quite a few places like that in my state. i ran out of gas in one of them. Mt. Victory, OH�- one gas station was 1 pump attached to someone's house and was full-serve. the other was attached to a car dealership and DID NOT HAVE PAY AT THE PUMP OMG. it's been a long time since i had to walk into a gas station to pay.

I would wig. I'll, like, go to a way more expensive station if it has pay at the pump and the cheap one doesn't. BEcause people are scary, and while I CAN interact with them when I have to, I'll pay for the privelege to not have to, much of the time. :)

i didnt really have a choice. my car has a little screen that flips thru stats and i had like 3 miles till empty. and in an SUV, it MEANS it. you dont run long on fumes. and on the long stretch of rt 68..you kinda have to stop where you can. and the kid working it was just a kid. *shrug* not scary.

all the scary people are in Lima. *ducks and runs*

Yeah, compared to that I suppose it is. :)

i kinda went with "other" because i have a City address, but i live in a named "area" (actually on the cusp between two) and i'm inside the "loop" of highway, but i'm far away enough from downtown that i cant walk to everything. so i think i border between urban residential and suburb. i'm only 6 miles from True Downtown, but i have to go another 5 out to, say, find a wal-mart :D

I put suburbs but it's also small townish. It's hard in a state like Connecticut because it's so small and densely populated that a lot of it, at least along the river, is pretty burby.

It's true-- I guess I was thinking in a very Midwestern perspective when I wrote this poll, where these distinctions are more defined. Back east, of course, there's so much population that these categories get muddled. I'm always impressed with how "urban" small towns are in the east.

Tucson is a strange city. We have one little "downtown" section, that has all the business offices and tall buildings. But most of the cool places *aren't* in downtown. Tucson is spread out, with cute little neighborhoods and university-town streets with boutiques, and also really ugly stripmalls and, farther out, even uglier urban sprawl and Big Box stores. I live a stone's throw from campus, so I guess I'm in the residential area, but it is pretty much the center of town. I'm not far removed from much.

I'm in "urban residential," barely. The eastern property line of the apartment complex is the Rochester city limit, its boundary with the suburban Town of Brighton.

-- Pauley

you live in rochester? i live in spencerport. gotta love tiny towns.

The AmeriCorps team that I was on had a project in Springdale Farms in Spencerport and stayed at SUNY Brockport. Small towns indeed.

Definately the 'burbs...

According to Environics everyone in my 6 digit postal code is a "kids and computers"

Anyone else know what their neighbourhood pshcyosocial demographic is? Honestly this is pretty funny stuff...scary stuff, how much Big Brother knows about you.

I live pretty close to downtown in a neighborhood that's seen a lot of redevelopment over the past twenty years (dare I say, gentrification.) See thumbnail pic to left :)

What about those of us who live in fourth-generation castles in swamps?

Bah, there are none of those left. They all burnt down, fell over, and/or sank into the swamp.

I am in the suburbs of Philly. Still can't decide whether I love it or not. I'm kinda missing living in my "urban residential" area...

I'm definitely going to go with rural. Apparently what I now think of as "small town" is "rural" to most people, but the area I live in is not even what I would call a town. It is on a lake, though, so that's awesome. But on my 18-mile commute to work, I go through precisely one traffic light, past 2 gas stations, 1 post office, and a bunch of run-down houses and cotton or tobacco fields. That's it.

If that sounds like a complaint, it's not. I love almost everything about my current living situation.