Where Do we live?

City slicker here.
 
Edge of a small town (pop 600 or so). I too plan to move as soon as the kids are out of school (or at least close to being out). The price of fuel and auto-maintenance/replacement requires us to live in town at this point in our lives:mad:
 
Had to move off the prairie,too many days of 105 deg drove me back to the cabin on 7k acres of National Forest.Two hours to the fezant field instead of twenty minutes.
 
Grew up in a small town <2000. By this time next year I'll be in the heart of Chicago, however. :mad: Have to put in some years trying to make the big bucks so I can afford my own hunting land some day.
 
I'm a land-baron, have 12 acres right outside of town. :) Town is population 700 with one gas station, a mechanic, a parts/tire shop, and a bank. Drive to work is 40 miles, closest store other than mentioned above is 20 miles. I like shooting deer from my back deck.
 
Depends upon definition and degree but I expect many have experienced a degree of change, regardless.
Here, over 30+ years, what was once farmland is now seeing some subdivison activity past the south fenceline.
Considering that and all else tho, any percentage matters little.
 
last house in the city limits (med size town) on a 1 acre lot. the farm field across the street was partly in crp with lots of phes. but sadly you guessed it!!! it's all crops now:thumbsup: the birds are all gone:mad:.
 
8 miles from a small town of 1200 people. Live at the end of a mile long gravel road on 15 acres with a 5 minute walk to a nice smallmouth stream called the Gasconade. Got 3 cabins on our private part of the road with 125 acres. Cabin owners are down every couple of months. I've got access to it all.
 
Live in a sub-division surrounded by a few farms. Live a 1/2 mile from a sportsman's club that has around 160 acres. I can fish, hunt, practice shooting (clays, rifle or bow). I raise pheasants for the club and have two johnny houses of quail on the property that I can use. Can't afford that much on my own. All for $25 per year.
 
Out in the country for sure. I lived in a small town for about a year when I first moved here and about went crazy. Not sure how you all do it that live in a city of any size? I grew up in the country and at this point in my life don't see that ever changing.

Matt D
 
I live in the city - Halifax, Nova Scotia. I grew up in the country, and figured I'd never survive city living when I bought my first house here. 10 years later, I don't often wish for country living. Sure, I get jealous on a Saturday morning when I have to "commute" to hunt, but 5 days a week when I ride my bicycle 20 minutes, or drive 7 minutes, to work while my country-living colleagues sit in traffic for two hours a day, I don't miss it much! Halifax is one of those cities that you can get OUT of fast, if you want. I can be grouse hunting in 15 minutes from my downtown house. I changed my work schedule to be 10-6, so I can go out and hunt for a few hours in the morning, then drive back into town after rush-hour and get to work - easy as pie. Hell, two years ago, I shot a spikehorn buck with my bow at 730 in the morning, had him hung, skinned and cooling in the woods by 9, and was sitting at my desk feeling pretty damned pleased with myself at 10 in the morning! My plan is still to move to the country when I retire, but I don't need to think about that too much at this point!
-Croc
 
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