Does not look very rural to me. Cars, sidewalks, buildings, traffic lights. This looks more like a small town. I thought rural means fields and barns.
You thought wrong. Rural doesnāt mean you donāt have cars, sidewalks, building and traffic lights. I grew up in rural Indiana and New Mexico. We had all of those there. In general, a rural area is a geographic area that is located outside cities and towns. The Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines the word āruralā as encompassing āā¦all population, housing, and territory not included within an urban area. Whatever is not urban is considered rural.ā
I took this picture in Loganville, Ohio, itās pretty rural out there.
I was expecting a drive-through liquor and guns store.
Logan Ohio, population 7152.
The closest Google Streetview, but the car has not gone down Main street yet.
Maybe thatās the modern definition of rural.
My home town, actually.
āBeer & Visitor Infoā pretty much covers it.
Looks like a pretty good combination to me. Whereās the joke?
Hm, whatās in the burritos?
The tourism is a double-edged sword. A lot of the rural outlying land is being bought up to build cabins and vacation homes. Itās raising property values, but also encouraging people to sell family homes and move out. A whole lot of people that my parents knew their whole lives have sold their land and moved elsewhere within the past decade. The area to the south is increasingly becoming a place for gift shops, vacation homes, and cabins, rather than somewhere that people actually live.
The tourism industry is also big enough (I canāt find statistics at the moment, but Iām almost certain it was about 1/3 of the countyās income the last time I looked) to cause some other issues. Tourism creates a lot of jobs for people to run cash registers, clean cabins, and such. Other thingsā¦ not so much. Thereās very little white collar work, and out of everybody I know who went to college after high school, thereās only a single person who didnāt have to move away to find a job in their field. This isnāt exactly an uncommon situation in a rural area, but still. In the context of Logan, when I see āBeer & Visitor Infoā the cynical part of my mind translates it as āthereās nothing to do but drink, and we are selling the county to out-of-towners one acre at a time.ā
Yes, but they define āurbanā as a settlement of more than 2,500 people. Is this part of Logan, Ohio? The census bureau list that as an āurban areaā with a population of 8080.
Thatās definitely inside a town, though. It looks like your basic small-town downtown; thatāll be the densest part of the town, two- and three-story buildings lining the streets, with small businesses at ground level and either more businesses or apartments above. It may be a very small town in a generally rural area, but still.
Not a big deal, Iām just picky about semantics. As are we all, apparently!
Yah, seriously! Sometimes country folks have the right idea about things.
[quote=āHeather, post:3, topic:55770ā]
I took this picture in Loganville, Ohio, itās pretty rural out there.
[/quote]Wait. Do you mean āLogan, OHā, the ~7000-pop. county seat of Hocking County, or āLogansville, OHā, the tiny rural crossroads in Logan County?
(AFAICT, there is no Loganville-no-āsā in Ohio.)
The pic looks more like Logan than Logansville to me.
Iām pretty sure Rural on BoingBoing means no Apple Store.
So you donāt recommend the burritos?
ā¦ I could go for a burrito and a beer right about nowā¦
If the main reason the town is there is because that is where the grain silos are then I would judge it rural. You wonāt find any grain silos here in cityville. (try to stretch the analogy a little before deciding I donāt know what I am talking about.) Another way to look at it; if the town is where the farmers or hunters go to buy hardware then it is rural.
There are grain silos in Chicago.
Rural Ohio has you covered
I know, but covered in what?
