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Re:$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home by dragontamer on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:22PM (#21264597)
> Yeah - for a person who is adjusted to only living in big cities then sure

I've never lived in any big city. Literally never. Not even close, always 20+ minutes away from the major city.

The thing is: suburbia itself is a network of smaller cities. Buies Creek has no "smaller city" near it. Buies Creek IS the city.

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To continue your Atherton example... Atherton is a suburb of ___Palo Alto___, not a suburb of San Fran. It is a brisk 4-mile bike-ride from Atherton to Palo Alto and back, you don't even need a car if you live in Atherton and commute to Palo Alto.

There's NOTHING walking or biking distance to Buies Creek, NC. Rural is more about "distance from nearest metro".

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Buies Creek NC is 40-minutes to Raleigh. This is rural by my experience. True, Buies Creek NC is "less Rural" for people who are used to 2-hour drives (Coulee City to Spokane), but a 40-minute drive away from a big city is Rural by most people's definition of Rural.

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Re:$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home by bradlys on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @06:45PM (#21264831)
> Not even close, always 20+ minutes away from the major city.

lol - this is so disconnected from how anyone who lives a truly rural lifestyle would think of it.

20 minutes is a joke! Living multiple hours away is considered more standard.

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Re:$100k/year still might not be enough to buy a home by TylerE on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @07:01PM (#21264955)
By whom?

99% of the rural population isn't Eastern Montana.

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