re: #90 whitebeach

Kind of my point, which was meant a little ironically (not sarcastically, word of the day). Statistically a huge majority of Americans don’t live in towns accessed only by a two-lane road and replete with dirt streets. I’m not knocking where you live. I’m just saying that, for good or ill, most of America doesn’t live in that environment anymore. Plus, if you want to go that way, I think my current rural would give yours a serious challenge.

I’m not sure where your current rural is.

My town has 128 people. In each direction:
East - next town sixteen miles, 68 people (Lisco, also where my bank is)
West - next town sixteen miles, 1,000 people (Bridgeport, county seat)
South - next town twenty-two miles (Dalton, over dirt roads), three hundred people
North - next town sixty miles (over dirt roads, Alliance)