Originally Posted by
StarBiker
Some of what you described is rural, and some isn't. Where I live a lot of people live close together, and I do not live in the city.
Much of the food can be obtained from local growers in the Burbs, as well as the City.
Rural to me is remote. There ain't gonna be mall parking lots.
Do you know anybody that lives off of the grid?
Of course there is a lot of variability. I was just trying to address the popular false meme that cities are somehow a special burden on the surrounding countryside, and city folk owe some kind of debt to rural residents.
People are a burden on the countryside, they can be just as big or even bigger a burden if they live in a rural area.