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Daria B 3 years ago

It's been years since I last heard them, but here in Korea we (used to?) have drill sirens, as the country is still supposed to be at war. The first time I experienced one of these was right at the time of the huge Japanese earthquake that crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, and all the news were about whether or not tragedy would be prevented. I freaked out, I was literally paralysed from fear and confusion. I want to highlight the "confusion" part, because everything was so peaceful and silent, not even the ever barking dog in the neighbourhood could be heard. There was then the sound of a very near flying helicopter. After it was gone, silence again. And then an old man sneezed loudly. That was so surreal.

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LongCoolWomanInABlackDress 2 years ago

our city tests the sirens for flooding/general alarm once a year, this is when we all listen and turn our radios on and that's about it.

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Lea S. 2 years ago (edited)

There's laws about even the smallest of towns having sirens...are you sure? I'm only curious because my town had less than 100 people but I was always told keeping up our storm siren was a law.

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Alan Davis 2 years ago

What is “good control”?

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just your average introvert 3 years ago

well yeehaw buster i live in a gun infested place its called florida

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AlmightyOne 3 years ago

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Evil Little Thing 3 years ago

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Ploploplop 3 years ago

In my country, good gun control is where you rest your trigger finger.

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Just a girl in a crazy world 3 years ago (edited)

Do you live in Canada? I have never heard any natural disaster siren before in my life, and the gun control isn’t as bad as *other places*

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago (edited)

You’re definitely Wrong. The person who added the photo is wrong too. The original comment from Reddit is talking about police /ambulance sirens. As in, if you hear gun shots, naturally sirens follow for cops and ambulance. But in the country, that’s not true because most guns are for hunting. Gun control doesn’t mean no guns. So you’d still hear gun shots. They never said country people “worried” about them. Just that they hear them, from hunters. Places like Finland with lots of guns and also lots of gun control. They’d hear gunshots but not sirens to follow. This has zero to do with natural disasters, and it’s pretty obvious.

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Rachel Tucker 3 years ago

This is true. I live in the countryside in the uk and any gunshots means they are out shooting pheasants for example and you don't react to it. If you hear a siren you wonder if someone you know is in trouble.

8points

Pamela24 3 years ago

This is mainly a US thing.

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Hańka 3 years ago

So american...

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kurisutofu 3 years ago

I'm 39 and I've never heard a gun shot ... Oh I forgot, I'm not American.

2points

Pseudo Puppy 3 years ago

In places other than the USA and those experiencing war... I don't think this is a thing in either the country regions or cities.

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El Dee 3 years ago

No guns, no worries..

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Leah Helbig 3 years ago

Yeah well thats a pipe dream you really think your going get ever person in the entire world to agree to destroy firearms I would gladly get rid of firearms but everyone has to militaries included but that will never happen

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J. F. 3 years ago

I live in a country side - when we hear shots it's hunters. The only other sirens beside police/ambulance we have are the old air raid horns we use to inform the voluntary firefighters.

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Anne Mitchell 2 years ago

In most countries no-one has to worry about either. Well done USA.

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Alan Davis 2 years ago

Before pagers, sirens like this were used to alert the local volunteer fire fighters to emergencies…. Hear the siren, drive tracto to pickup, drive pickup to fire department, find out what the merge charge is, drive emergency vehicles to emergency, deal with emergency, go back to work.

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Verena Abt 2 years ago

No guns in Germany and I find it quite a relief, to be honest.

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NinjaWolfy94 3 years ago

Yes. I live out in the bush on a farm. Gunshots are very normal. A few neighbors just shooting the wallabies destroying their yard or predators attacking their chooks. But sirens? Nah mate. Too far from a town for that to be normal.

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Mark O. Rubio 3 years ago

Interesting yall get so defensive and upset about me asking questions. I wanted to know more about her statemement. You don't know me and I don't know you. You don't have to insult my country to feel ok about your own... Are you having doubts or something? I could've gone without some snootiness in my statement, but chill. That's great there aren't as many gun deaths where you're living. Texas has a larger population than your country, so just going off number of mass shootings isn't a great choice, but the number should be 0. More than 80% of gun deaths here are comprised of suicide and gang on gang violence (where the vast majority of the "mass" shooting numbers come from). There are things we can do better, but banning all the things?? I don't know. No sarcasm.

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)

You didn’t just ask a question though. Maybe read what you wrote again. Having good gun control does not mean banning guns all together, just having tighter restrictions and definitely NO semi- automatic or automatic weapons. More people in the US are accidentally killed by guns than ALL the people killed by guns in Australia. We have had ONE mass shooting since the 80’s and that was a family murder/suicide. Yet in the US just last year there were over 578 mass shootings. On average there is 13.5 gun deaths per 100,000 people in Aus but 120.5 per 100,000 in the US. Gun control works and pretty much EVERY reliable source will back that up.

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DanieLegz 3 years ago

Truth!

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Rachel Connot 3 years ago

I live in the country, so we hear guns going off all the time. Also, the small town about a half mile away still has sirens that go off for 7am, noon, and 6pm every weekday, and 6pm only on the weekends.

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Sasha Kuleshov 3 years ago

Why?

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urszulat 3 years ago

Not where I live: no sirens and no gunshots.

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Marika Miettinen 3 years ago

Where I live (medium-sized town) when I hear sirens and get curious I open this website that shows fires, car crashes and other emergency stuff like that on ta map. It's pretty cool!

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Ann Oldfield 3 years ago

I have a shooting range within earshot but they only shoot at scheduled hours

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The weird one! 3 years ago

facts

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Easily Excitable Panda 3 years ago

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Flash Henry 3 years ago

The soundtrack to Upstate New York is gunshots.

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Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

YES! This! Depending on region, that is. the only siren we heard was the volunteer fire dpeartment, summoning the volunteers to station from up to five miles away as the sound carried. Gunshots? Eh. Half the year it's hunting season, and the other half it's practicing your shots, or dealing with a rabid raccoon, or o ro r...

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Seldom hear either, but you can hear the Friday football cheering a out 5 miles away in the autumn

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Tiny Dynamine 3 years ago

Maybe in some underdeveloped countries, but not where I live!

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Samantha Comerford 3 years ago

Haha 😆

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses The scream you hear in the middle of the night isn't a woman being murdered. It's just foxes shagging.

BlameMeBlue , Marie Hale Report

Final score:

174points

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Sarcastic Cow 3 years ago

And it isn´t baby cry - it is cats shagging or fighting. Or both.

65points

To find out more about the joys of country life, Bored Panda has reached out to a former city girl from London, Amy Powell, who moved to live in rural Wiltshire with her dog. Amy runs a lighthearted blog “City Girl, Country Life” where she shares the snaps of her daily life. She was happy to share how her life has changed after she moved to the country.

“For me, the contrast of country life to living in the city was very stark—not just from the way of life, but even the pace of it. When I moved out here, I was constantly being asked 'why do you walk so fast?'" Amy guesses that she was used to storming her way through hundreds of people at a tube station or while walking down busy streets to work.

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses The dark. In a city at night you can read a book outside. In the country on a cloudy or no moon night. You can't see anything. Not like it's kinda hard to see, but it's so dark you might as well be blind; the stars and gravity are the only way to know which direction is up. Also a clear night sky in places that get truly dark like that is something my vocabulary can't describe.

tinymonesters , Voxumo Report

Final score:

173points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago

I absolutely love it when we go bush camping and get to see soooo many stars. It is magical.

55points

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses "Watch out for deer" when saying goodbye is another way of telling someone you love them.

m1lk1e , Alex O'Neal Report

Final score:

172points

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Foxxy (The Original) 3 years ago (edited)

Kangaroos for us in Aus, especially around dusk.

55points

Another stark difference between city and country lives was availability of things. “City life meant that if you wanted to go out for dinner after work, the only question was 'where shall we go?'—the options were endless. In the country, there is one local pub and then you had to decide who was driving or whether you should book a cab.”

But the benefits of leaving the urban jungle behind are endless, assured Amy. “My asthma all but cleared up, my pace of life has drastically slowed down, and I feel such a sense of community in the countryside that just doesn't exist in London.”

Simple things, like people saying good morning to you when you walk past , “just because” is something Amy hasn’t had while living in the city.

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses A calm night, sitting out on your grandparents porch eating a grilled hotdog off a paper plate while listening to the summer rain hit the tin roof.

Mayr069 , Virginia State Parks Report

Final score:

158points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

Poetry

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses When you hear a car door slam in the middle of the night, something is wrong.

7e8e7 , SurFeRGiRL30 Report

Final score:

153points

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Botox 3 years ago

In my case if you hear car or voice outside, it's or electrical checking or someone got lost.

5points

cbinette84 , Virginia State Parks Report

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Letting my kids just go outside and play. Ride their bikes down the street, go into the woods out back and explore. But more importantly just feel generally secure about their safety doing these things.

Final score:

137points

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Hans 3 years ago

I am living in a city (admittedly, a ten-thousand something inhabitans only place, suburbing a larger city) and this is perfectly possible here. It is saddening that it is not everywhere.

48points

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Waving at people when you see them on the road

DeusVultEXE , JK B Report

Final score:

126points

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Botox 3 years ago

And saying hello to strangers!

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses The extent of our pantries and freezers. We can't just "run to the store" to pick up that forgotten ingredient or spur-of-the-moment craving. But if we're well-stocked, we can whip up just about anything!

MrsChickenPam , Bob Report

Final score:

117points

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Botox 3 years ago

Yep. And if you rly want an icecream you are welcome to walk through the forest 5 km. No, noone is going to drive around just for an icecream. Nice fitness though

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“I can walk nowhere in particular for the sheer enjoyment of it and I have found a love of bird watching from my garden—my colleagues endlessly mock me for this and the amount of money I spend on stocking up my bird feeding station for my little visitors!”

Another obvious country bonus was all the space Amy got. Plus, she got a dog almost as soon as she moved out of the city. “Walking him has proved to be the best tonic on so many occasions... if I'm feeling stressed, sad, worried or just down, a stroll with him in the fresh air never fails to improve my mood and my outlook.”

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses The amount of animal noises at night.

BellatrixLenormal , ianpreston Report

Final score:

113points

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Just a girl in a crazy world 3 years ago

I love falling asleep to the sounds of birds frogs and crickets

26points

#11

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Small Town Texas here

S**tty Internet

Friday Night Lights Ghost Towns

The smell of the rain

Country Road parties

Driving for an hour and not seeing another car

Small Town Festivals

Knowing everyone business and everyone knowing yours

Snakes are your friend

Dead Coyotes hanging from fence posts

The sky at night is inspirational

txbbqdude , Wolf's Nikon1 Report

Final score:

94points

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tmw 3 years ago

do people shoot the coyotes and put them on the fence as a warning to others coyotes?

12points

#12

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses I temporarily moved to a rural village in order to get my foot in the door early by getting the EXACT job I wanted without the necessary 5 year experience. My plan was to get a bit of union time in then leverage that and my bit of experience to get back to the city. I moved 2.5 hours away from the city. It has been 11 years and I love it here.

I don't think urban people can understand how much more simple life is. There is no pressure to keep up on trends or make up, but if it interests you, then do it. It is a small village with not too much around it except the ocean so everything is clustered together. This clustering means 2 minute commutes to work. Empty beaches, no need to jockey for spots on the sand and those beaches are within 10 mins. Oh, you prefer the woods? Then drive 10 mins the other direction. Let me tell you, when you spend 4 mins a day going to and from work, a whole world of hobby time opens up for you and getting 8 hours of sleep is still easy.

Going to the "city" is now an exciting trip. I felt stupid when I realized that but then I realized it makes for cheap thrills to be this easily excited.

Saving money is easy peasy. Nothing to 5 dollar your life away at. At housing prices!! I bought a 3 bedroom, 1 bath (booo), 130 year old home for $100k.

Specific to where I live, I don't know if it is the same elsewhere, but our postal system is fast. I get things delivered here faster than my mom does in the middle of the big city where both our parcels go through. And couriers are hilarious. They will leave you a note letting you know who they left your package with if you aren't home.

Oh and the gossip, better than any soap opera.

dinosarahsaurus , Seth Maha Report

Final score:

91points

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Teucer T 3 years ago

The postal lady here painted her mail truck pink.

28points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Chickens. They're a lot more animal than I think people realize. They eat almost anything organic, so their enclosures are barren. If you free range em - they will eat your garden, even buried stuff like potatoes.

Also they will both produce almost no eggs, then when you get 4-5, they will produce all the eggs. Like so many you'll start giving them away.

And animals love chicken. Hawks, coyotes, foxes, dogs, even damn raccoons get brave for some chicken.

Oh yeah - roosters. They totally sometimes call at 5am. Also they're mean suckers, and have large talons on their feet called spurs which are basically little chicken daggers for defense.

Oh, and eggs come from the same hole they poop from. Eggs almost always have poo on them.

I've loved raising chickens, but damn would I never want someone who isn't use to it to try. They're pretty gross at times, not at all intelligent animals, and tend to fight themselves when they aren't be predated by animals you'd never consider a threat.

They can be kind of affectionate though.

ZiggoCiP , Mary and Andrew Report

Final score:

89points

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Coleonema 3 years ago

I had a chicken once, she was more like a dog than a chicken. Loved people, slept inside and would even jump onto your lap

37points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Seeing Deer isn't a special occasion, those f*****s are always showing up.

Quizzika , Rex Roof Report

Final score:

82points

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Teucer T 3 years ago

They're all over the place until hunting season. They disappear the day before hunting season starts. The f-ers can read and own calendars.

38points

Moreover, Amy said that “country pursuits are joy; much to the amusement of my London colleagues, I got a pet pig and I learnt to care for chickens. That's something you'll never be able to experience in the city. The more you throw yourself into country life, the more it gives back to you in spades.”

When asked if she ever misses some city things, Amy said that it would be cocktail bars. “Oh, how I miss perusing a cocktail menu as thick as a bible and happy hour drinks with friends after a long week at work! A pint of cider at a cheese festival on a Sunday just doesn't have quite the same effect…”

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Burning trash in a barrel or a "burn pile."

odomotto , Gord Webster Report

Final score:

75points

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Brigs 3 years ago

Not good for the environment

16points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Constantly losing power because of wind and rain damaging old wires, transformers, etc.

luckymonkey12 , Chris Hunkeler Report

Final score:

73points

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Coleonema 3 years ago

Hahaha, that's pretty common by me, but its mostly because my countries electricity provider needs to be better at their job.

27points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Sorry mr, Thompson. I have to leave class today. Cows got out.

Your mom has a list of who you can and cant date, and when your cousin gets married the list gets cut in half.

The monthly Costco run

Having literally everything. Seriously I have so much sh*t laying around, but cant get rid of it because who knows when you will need an extra carburetor.

Chatting at Dutch bros with the barista for 2 hours because there's nothing better to do.

Gutting a deer during lunch break.

Driving 45 min to the nearest bowling alley.

Not going anywhere because you forget to fill up gas before the weekend when the stations are closed.

Knowing every single logging road by memory and practically a rally driver in a lifted truck, but freak out when your driving in a city where there are roundabouts.

EducationalResult8 , Andrew Wilkinson Report

Final score:

72points

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Sasy 3 years ago

Roundabouts are scary things.

29points

#18

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Our traffic is tractors during harvest / planting.. usually you can just zip around.
There is something so empowering about being able to go outside in your panties and tshirt and have no one around to give you a second look. ( best way to watch the stars at night and drink your first cup of coffee in the morning)

Kendlyfire , Rab Lawrence Report

Final score:

71points

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Yvette Desmarais 3 years ago

Unless it's winter. Then you need to wear pants.

13points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses How little politics affect your every day life when you aren't surrounded by people talking about it. If it weren't for social media (which I avoid 99% of the time) we'd have no idea what's going on out there.

Also, how quiet it is. I have city friends that love to come out just to listen to the quiet.

techno-d , Charles Hutchins Report

Final score:

70points

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kathoco 3 years ago

This reminds of why I'm glad that I no longer live in a small town. People think that issues like gay rights and racism and whatever don't concern them because they live in a small, peaceful town. These questions are everybody's business because they contribute to improving society for everyone in the country (not just in a small, homogeneous town) and we should all feel like this is important. Rights are human rights and everyone should fight to protect them.

18points

For all the people out there thinking of leaving the city behind and moving to the countryside, Amy suggests looking for a community as soon as you can in order not to feel loneliness. “If you're doing it alone, you'll struggle more than you think you would... the emptiness in the countryside can feel overwhelmingly lonely.”

That community can be found through exercise, a hobby, or an animal. “The rural community has so much to offer, but being so spaced out, it can be hard to find people to connect with at first unless you make a solid effort.”

“Yet, once you have been embraced into that community, you will never find a more supportive bunch of people.” Amy concluded that “The way people look out for others in the country is unparalleled and really restores your faith in humanity.”

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses When a road sign says Last Gas for however many kilometers

yelofoley , Susanne Winter Report

Final score:

63points

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Teucer T 3 years ago

I-10 West Texas "Next Exit 235 Miles"... And it's so flat you can SEE it.

43points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses I live in a very rural, very northern latitude and almost full homestead area. There are lots of thing different.

Seeing stars and the Milky Way when it gets dark as well as full sky of northern lights.

Stocking up firewood in the summer when it’s hot and sunny. With that the dry warm heat from your woodstove in the middle of the winter is something everyone should experience.

Shooting guns off your deck to make sure they are still sighted in.

Having friends drop in just because they were in the area.

Taking a 4 wheeler to the store and spending an hour there because you keep running into people you know.

Fresh chicken eggs and veggies from the garden

Your local store is also your gas station, post office, deli, liquor store, movie rental.

There are so many other things, I don’t see how anybody can even live in the big city’s at all but that’s just how my upbringing is.

LongDuckDongus , Luke Jones Report

Final score:

59points

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Joseph OReilly 3 years ago

I never knew what the milky way looked like until I moved to the country(too much lighter pollution in the city) and it's one of those things that no matter how many times you see it, you have to stop and look at it for a few minutes every time because it's SO DAMN COOL

5points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses I moved from a busy suburb to a country house for a few years because my parents dream was to live quietly for the rest of their lives. We all ended up moving away after a few years back to a suburban neighborhood because they figured out it wasn’t for them. There are a few things to get use to:

it is extremely quiet, almost no noise unless coyotes are nearby then all you hear is howling all night at random times during the year

mowing the lawn takes all day

there’s no one to talk to, unless you bike several miles away to hang out with another kid, and you may not like them but tolerate them because you have nothing else to do.

snow turns into huge drifts, and the forts you can make are amazing

people in small towns have nothing better to do than to gossip and talk trash, so when you are new they all judge you for the first year then decide if they’re going to treat you like s**t.

ignorant white kids saying really dumb things about minorities, which is information they got from their parents. They got really upset when I told them they were wrong and told them stories about friends I use to have before moving. They get really offended and hurt when someone uses facts and experience while having a discussion, especially when you disprove something they say.

There’s a bunch of cool stuff about living in the middle of nowhere, but the worst part of it is the people who live there.

mrinkyface , USDA NRCS Montana Report

Final score:

59points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

This is very true in a lot of ways. The silence, the snow, the ignorant people. Trump didn’t get elected in a vacuum.

9points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Its basically impossible to live if you can't drive, I live a few miles out of the village so I have to get lifts to work, to go see friends and everything. The only bus only leaves the village every 2-3 hours to go into the city and is ridiculously expensive.

But it is gorgeous and can be so peaceful, i often take my dog up the hill behind my house, there's no roads and only a couple of other houses and its so quiet and relaxing, i can lie there for ages on a nice day. I also have a horse and its great to go for a mental out-of-control gallop through the fields and the forests.

CB97sriracha , Kārlis Dambrāns Report

Final score:

54points

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Katie Garr 3 years ago

i'm incredibly jealous of the horse. where i live, we don't have any fields or spaces big enough for me to take my horse out and have a full gallop around. it's been something i've wanted to do for years.

2points

#24

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses The reality is your neighbors are nosy little f*****s, they don't have a life and wanna know what goes on in others.

stnrnts , bertknot Report

Final score:

53points

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Botox 3 years ago

We have saying: don't choose house by village, choose it by neighbours

10points

#25

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses No light pollution, the night sky is amazing. It can also get extremely dark and silent. A large pack of coyotes sounds terrifying, but owls are music to the ears.

JagerGSXR , Timothy Tsui Report

Final score:

47points

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Grumble O'Pug 3 years ago

I love the chatter of coyotes late at night.

7points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses How hard it is to get high speed internet.

Ask_me_4_a_story , Marco Verch Report

Final score:

46points

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Nikki Gregerson 3 years ago

I can only get t.v. and internet via satellite in rural Illinois. It's slow and cost a damn fortune.

11points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses They'll never truly understand the power of nature. The feeling of being surrounded by it and hearing every living creature all around you.

mumbo_jumbo_man , Marius Benta Report

Final score:

45points

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Ralph Watkins 2 years ago

We have a wooded area next to our home. The amount of critter noises we hear is incredible. I have also hiked way off the grid on the west coast years ago. The silence is deafening. Same amount of critters but spread out by miles of wilderness. Hearing a buck scraping it's horns on a tree or a passing bird is about the only animal sounds you hear all day. It does not mean the creatures aren't there. They tend to be quieter.

0points

#28

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses I don't have a leash for my dog, because where the hell is she gonna go?

WatchTheBoom: , Manoela Padilha Report

Final score:

44points

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Coleonema 3 years ago

There are Cobras by me... You want to leash your dog

17points

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Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses How small it really is.

When I graduated in 2014, my class was 14 people. And we were one of the largest grades at the school, the grade below only had 6 people, the grade above me only had 4. I originally grew up in a hamlet, population 20 people and then moved to a village where I went to school, roughly 300 people.

We have one bar, one grocery store that closes at 6pm, a carwash, a bank(in the neighboring villager 15 minutes away) post office and school in town. Everyone else is either oilfield workers or farmers.

And it’s f***ing boring, for fun in the summers we used to bike down the highway for hours to no where and then turn around and bike home.

cats-and-cucumbers , Erik Wilde Report

Final score:

44points

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Kisses4Katie 3 years ago

A hamlet becomes a village when it gets a church.

13points

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#30

Someone Asks People Who Live In A Rural Area “What Will 'City Folk' Never Understand?” And Here Are 30 Of The Best Responses Drinking and driving is more common cause the bar is so far away and Uber or Lyft are not a thing.

mke0192 , James Cridland Report

Final score:

11points

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Sasy 3 years ago

No, nope, not something to list and even worse to add an excuse....walk or sleep in the car.

48points

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Mimi777 3 years ago

I agree with many of these. It’s absolutely beautiful to lay out on a warm summer night and just stare up at all the stars. No light pollution and u can see the Milky Way. It’s so peaceful and quiet.

6points

Daria B 3 years ago (edited)

I could do the same in my hometown city of Umag, on the way to the lighthouse. Seoul and nearby cities, on the other hand, less so, but not entirely impossible.

0points

Teucer T 3 years ago

Knowing why people have light bars on their trucks... HINT: They're not for decoration.

5points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Amen.

0points

ChickyChicky 3 years ago

Lack of access to quality health care is one thing that would be not so great.

4points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Good point.

1point

Bill 3 years ago (edited)

I have lived in parts of Asia and several US cities and I was happy as a clam moving back to the country and will never leave

4points

Scyth 3 years ago

Me too. I've worked and lived in the middle east and south europe, but now I have settled in north Ukraine and would never want to move away.

3points

Teucer T 3 years ago

You can tell the Europeans on this list. In the US "being 25 minutes outside town" is called "living in the suburbs."

3points

A.M. Pierre 3 years ago

Yep. I was talking to someone from Europe who said, "In American, 100 years old is old. In Europe, 100 miles away is far."

4points

marianne eliza 3 years ago

Actually going to a neighbor to borrow a cup of something. Or an onion.

2points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

You find flaws in any situation, and human nature is what it is across the board ----- grew up rural, have lived urbansuburban and frankly prefer to just avoid humanity. *That* seems to eliminate most negatives ;-P

2points

Katie Garr 3 years ago

another addition: coyotes. my mom heard one for the first time with me and my horse at our barn, and said "what is that?" my sister (not an outdoorsy person) told her it was a coyote. she didn't believe her until i confirmed that it was, in fact, a coyote, and that it was standing about 30 feet in front of us, in the pitch black, and that my horse was looking right at it and could see it better than we could.

2points

Botox 3 years ago

Backing bread is not trendy hobby. Most of the time it's the only way to have fresh bread ) I love living in the countryside. I miss some "Citi's things", but it worth it. And I couldn't imagine real difference before, although I spent whole summers at grandma's house and thought I know everything about countryside. I did not. It's a true difference between tourism and emigration!

1point

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Why does it matter if bread is “fresh” though? Grocery store bread from a factory isn’t fresh but I think it’s what most people use.

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Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

Lived rurally for a great many years. Can't buy the bit that if you hear a car (ortruck) door slam, it means something's wrong. People work all kinds of shifts, start at every hour of the day or night, so someone closing a car door could just as easily mean they've gotten home from work. Until 2020, it even meant that those of us who are night owls were just getting home from shopping, or the movies, or from a friend's house. People writing on BP really need to stop the insanity of writing dumb things meant to scare people. There's enough wrong in the world, nobody needs to add to it by writing half truths and full out untruths.

0points

KathleenJ 2 years ago

All of these brought back so many good memories of living on a big farm out in the middle of nowhere. I never truly appreciated the good life I had then.

0points

Sara Throndson 3 years ago

While there are some ignorant young white kids who talk trash, there are a lot who are being raised to know that all people are created equal. The people in these rural areas are not always the worst. We can be just as beautiful as the country we live in.

0points

DanieLegz 3 years ago

I'm reading this as I'm about to go to sleep in my bedroom which is opposite large open fields :)

0points

AlmightyOne 3 years ago

I know there are problems in the country, but damn I wanna move there now.

0points

Tracy Sellars 3 years ago

The beauty in just watching the wedge-tail eagles sore on the thermals. Magnificent birds and so graceful. We have a mating pair 5 mins from my home snd I always get joy in watching them.

0points

Yugan Talovich 3 years ago

I live in a village an hour from the city. If I come home by bus after nine PM, I can walk home in twenty minutes. But in the daytime, it takes either four minutes or at least an hour and a half. Four minutes, someone gives me a lift. Over an hour? Gotta talk to people! I love it.

0points

Teucer T 3 years ago

To me, "living in the country" means having gas delivered because it's a half tank just to get to the nearest station and back.

0points

Margaret O'Connor 3 years ago

Don't come here. You would hate it here. We don't want you. We are your worst nightmare. You are our worst nightmare. You just keep doing your Starbucks Tindr thing and leave us alone.

-1point

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Are rednecks ever not violent and trashy?

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Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

One thing not on the list is the drug use. Rural drugs are usually meth and prescription opioids. That’s unheard of in the city. City drugs are cocaine based.

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Mimi777 3 years ago

6points

Daria B 3 years ago (edited)

I could do the same in my hometown city of Umag, on the way to the lighthouse. Seoul and nearby cities, on the other hand, less so, but not entirely impossible.

0points

Teucer T 3 years ago

Knowing why people have light bars on their trucks... HINT: They're not for decoration.

5points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

Amen.

0points

ChickyChicky 3 years ago

Lack of access to quality health care is one thing that would be not so great.

4points

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Good point.

1point

Bill 3 years ago (edited)

I have lived in parts of Asia and several US cities and I was happy as a clam moving back to the country and will never leave

4points

Scyth 3 years ago

Me too. I've worked and lived in the middle east and south europe, but now I have settled in north Ukraine and would never want to move away.

3points

Teucer T 3 years ago

You can tell the Europeans on this list. In the US "being 25 minutes outside town" is called "living in the suburbs."

3points

A.M. Pierre 3 years ago

Yep. I was talking to someone from Europe who said, "In American, 100 years old is old. In Europe, 100 miles away is far."

4points

marianne eliza 3 years ago

Actually going to a neighbor to borrow a cup of something. Or an onion.

2points

Leo Domitrix 3 years ago

2points

Katie Garr 3 years ago

2points

Botox 3 years ago

1point

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Why does it matter if bread is “fresh” though? Grocery store bread from a factory isn’t fresh but I think it’s what most people use.

0points

Joyce Blodgett 1 year ago

0points

KathleenJ 2 years ago

All of these brought back so many good memories of living on a big farm out in the middle of nowhere. I never truly appreciated the good life I had then.

0points

Sara Throndson 3 years ago

0points

DanieLegz 3 years ago

I'm reading this as I'm about to go to sleep in my bedroom which is opposite large open fields :)

0points

AlmightyOne 3 years ago

I know there are problems in the country, but damn I wanna move there now.

0points

Tracy Sellars 3 years ago

The beauty in just watching the wedge-tail eagles sore on the thermals. Magnificent birds and so graceful. We have a mating pair 5 mins from my home snd I always get joy in watching them.

0points

Yugan Talovich 3 years ago

0points

Teucer T 3 years ago

To me, "living in the country" means having gas delivered because it's a half tank just to get to the nearest station and back.

0points

Margaret O'Connor 3 years ago

Don't come here. You would hate it here. We don't want you. We are your worst nightmare. You are our worst nightmare. You just keep doing your Starbucks Tindr thing and leave us alone.

-1point

Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago

Are rednecks ever not violent and trashy?

0points