The burbs, city, country...where do you live?

The weird part is the amount of land that we have in the midst of a pretty big city. You are right that the cities and areas are merging more and more into these large urban areas (that end up capturing some of the suburb/rural areas). My city has been here since 1903 and was home to a lot of heavy industry and rail business. GM had an assembly plant on the city’s north border from the 40’s on.

 

I'm in northern NY, 7 miles from the St. Lawrence river/Canadian border. Rural, in the middle of a thousand acres of open farm land, lots of big dairy farms around milking thousands of cows and to the other extreme, lots of Amish here too. Town I'm in has about 4000 residents, only incorporated city in the county has about 16,000, 10 minutes away. My county is big, largest east of the Mississippi and 3rd biggest in the country I believe.
No way I can live in a city or even the 'burbs, too many people, too close.

 

That oblique airphoto must be deceptive. That doesn't look like 25 acres. A square 105o feet on a side is roughly 25 acres.

Without looking I think I know what county you are in. I don't think it could be anywhere else in the country.

 

They let you leave Utah?

 

Sorry, wasn’t trying to be cryptic, forgot to say the location.

Laguna Hills, CA in Orange County. 40 miles south of Cortez and yet a completely different
world, although most would think it’s boring down here. LA has great food, entertainment and nightlife, but I’m older now and those things would only lead to bad things for me. But like Cortez, I wouldn’t have it any other way.

 

20 years ago I moved out to where I am now from the small city(120k) I grew up in. I specifically moved as far out as I did(20miles) in the hopes that the trend of putting a house on every few acres wouldn't reach me. So far it's worked.

 

In the country. 2 acres across the street from a lake with a bar just down the road with good food and a boat launch. 10 miles from town and an hour east of the Minneapolis airport if I want to get something in the big city. The nearest town, Menomonie, WI, has a university, 3 breweries and one of which serves great wood fired pizza.

 

Nah, bro... Everything is bigger in Texas... You didn't know? LOL

I'm guessing you're referring to St. Lawrence County. 2821 total including water area barely puts it in the top 10 in Texas.

 

Officially a free man

 

downshifting a bit. No a lot. Looking for a bluewater capable liveaboard sailboat and slpit my newly aquired retirement between wrenching in the Motoamerica paddock, riding aprilia's and criusing the gulf and beyond.
Enough cities, houses, traffic, and corporate muck.

 

Ehhh. Couldn't have been any other county -- just the town in question. My In-laws lived in LH back when I got married. I would have figured it did have >30k residents. Orange County has I think 27 or 28 municipalities, and the imprimatur of the Irvine Corp is still felt though a lot of the county.

Largest county in Tx is a whopping 39th largest. So much for big.

 

10 miles north of San Diego, 5 minute cycle to La Jolla Shores beach.
100/150 meters from Interstate 5 to my back garden. Just over 1/2 acre.
Constant sound of freeway traffic is almost like ocean waves until an 18 wheeler or bunc h of Harley's fly by.

 

Beats me. Just what it said. I've been having a hard time visualizing what an acre or 5 or 10 means on the ground myself. Hard to tell what I'm looking at sometimes.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/...MD-20872/2080224881_zpid/?utm_medium=referral

 

Touche. ((Which, coincidentally is only one letter off from "douche". )

Looking into this matter, I also learned that Alaska doesn't divide itself up into counties, but rather "Census Areas" which basically serve the same sort of purpose. One of them would be the 4th largest state if it seceded!

But if that shit melted.... maaaaaybe Delaware size.

 

The squiggly lines at the top? Kids atv/dirt bike track that i cut into the natural gas pipeline easement that rums through my property.

Side note, there are 2 pipelines there, a 42" and a 48", but i have to buy propane to heat my house and shop.

 

St-Lambert, close to Champlain Bridge.

 

I wasn't thinking "let".

 

He's in Longueuil, wherever that is. He says it's full of old people. But he wanted to be close to work.

 

I'm right next to Longueuil. St-Lambert used to be part of it, but the rich old bags (the same ones complaining that the F1 races and heavy metal concerts make too much noise) wanted to remove themselves from the commoners lol
Isn't your sister in Montreal ?

 

Moved back to Ivory Coast three years ago. She still owns her Montréal apartment, though.