For instance the word "traffic"... traffic for my parents is getting stuck in a line of 10 cars behind a tractor or a horse and buggy. Traffic in Indianapolis, is congested roads. Traffic here....it can be like a 20 mile long parking lot....
Another relative word is "rural." I always say I grew up in rural Indiana. Which is true, but I wonder if a resident of rural Wyoming would laugh at my use of the word "rural." Might she say, "it's not rural if you see cars that aren't yours." So I will remember this Wyoming woman as I continue.
This is a street in my neighborhood:
Recently another member of this subdivision (that alone should tell you something) commented on our HOA FACEBOOK PAGE (see where I'm going yet?) that she chose this neighborhood because it didn't have sidewalks and it was more....wait for it..... rural.
Rural is Relative.
4 comments:
oh my that's funny. that street is rural huh? I bet there is more traffic on your "rural" street than I have on the main road in my teeny town! funny..yep, rural is relative.
That is a funny story. I grew up in a small city in IL and, as you may know, Andy grew up in "rural Indiana". We live in a neighborhood that looks very much like your current one (not technically a subdivision and we don't have an HOA - thank the Lord!). No sidewalks, no city water or sewer, and after we had lived here less than 2 months, I saw the first in a line of rodents inside a house...I had never experienced that before. I tease my husband that we live in the country...if the water comes from under my house...and returns there, it is the country :)
We have a friend from Texas. His family owns a ranch. Their "neighbors" are sometimes 100s of miles away depending on the direction. We have had this same discussion with him. He finds IN to be boxed in.
Hundreds of miles... that's not so much rural as it is isolated...yikes.
Both of my grandmothers lived in a bigger city, and once when my parents were away my grandmothers came to stay with us. My parents' house didn't have any curtains (still doesn't) and that made my grandmothers VERY nervous so over the course of the month my parents were gone they had made curtains for EVERY WINDOW. I guess looking out the windows and NOT seeing any other signs of people was too much.
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