What best describe your city

[GenMarshall]

Urban - of, relating to, characteristic of, or constituting a city
Suburban - a smaller community adjacent to or within commuting distance of a city, or the residential area on the outskirts of a city or large town
Rural - of or relating to the country, country people or life, or agriculture (Includes Wilderness and Outback)

I am curious what type of City, Town, or Village the OT community lives in .

 

[The Omega]

I live in a nice, quiet suburban area.

 

[Mise]

I'm not really sure... you'd have to give me some examples, and maybe what "city" or "large town" mean. Also, I live in a village (when I'm not at uni), but it's also a suburb. Most people work in the city (pop. 130,000), but some work in the countryside, and I know a few farmers. I don't know how to classify that.

 

[Akka]

Urban.
I'm practically in the center of a 700 000 people urban area.

 

[Babbler]

suburban - the city proper is a river away.

 

[Captain Carnage]

I live in a small town with a population of about 20,000 and 20km away is a city (Darwin) with a population of about 100,000.

 

[Yom]

I live in an urban area, as defined by the U.S. government (Williamsburg, Virginia, with about 12,000 residents). Though it is not a large city, I believe the U.S. government classifies any city with 10,000+ residents as urban. I definitely don't live in the suburbs, as Williamsburg didn't sprout as a suburb (it's been around since the 1600s, it is arguably the same as the Jamestown Settlement), and it's not rural, but I am hesitant to call it urban.

 

[Mise]

I live in an urban area, as defined by the U.S. government (Williamsburg, Virginia, with about 12,000 residents). Though it is not a large city, I believe the U.S. government classifies any city with 10,000+ residents as urban. I definitely don't live in the suburbs, as Williamsburg didn't sprout as a suburb (it's been around since the 1600s, it is arguably the same as the Jamestown Settlement), and it's not rural, but I am hesitant to call it urban.

Never grew out of size 1 eh? 12,000 is tiny! And you have cities of 10,000,000+ there too? What a quaint country!

 

[Fetus4188]

Suburban .

 

[Oruc]

Urban, though im not sure what a suburban place should look like

 

[SeleucusNicator]

I live in the third largest city in the United States, so its relatively urban.

 

[Yom]

Never grew out of size 1 eh? 12,000 is tiny! And you have cities of 10,000,000+ there too? What a quaint country!

More like size 2, with the second citizen being tourists .

Last I checked the UK had some small cities in addition to larger ones like London and Birmingham.

 

[Cuivienen]

That odd borderline between urban and suburban. If it were not in the shadow of larger cities (like NYC), Englewood would be considered a city in its own right. I voted "urban."

 

[Tomoyo]

I'm in a technical city, but due to the citiness of NYC, I live in a suburb. I voted suburb.

 

[nonconformist]

I live in the third largest city in the United States, so its relatively urban.

Nah, that's suburb!



inside joke......

 

[Mise]

More like size 2, with the second citizen being tourists .

Last I checked the UK had some small cities in addition to larger ones like London and Birmingham.

We don't call the 12,000 ones "urban" though . London is something like 7 times bigger than Birmingham (the second city) and is something of an oddity (it's like it's own country really). Most "cities" in the UK are between 100,000 and 450,000, so there's not much variation in size at least from one to the other. And I think 93% of Britons live in "urban" areas anyway.

 

[Fetus4188]

We don't call 12,000 ones urban either, I live in a city of 78,000 and it is still considered a suburb of Oakland.

 

[LoughlinNR]

i live in central london (next to paddington station where paddington bear comes from) but londons weird i live next to oxford st which i could say is the busiest st in london but i live in a really quiet place where all the posh people live so i could say i live in an urban area which is like a rural area...if that makes sense

ps i am not posh i just live in a nice flat

pps not that their is anything wrong with being posh i just aint thats all.

 

[Mise]

We don't call 12,000 ones urban either, I live in a city of 78,000 and it is still considered a suburb of Oakland.

How is it a city if it's a suburb? I'm confused... a city, to me, is somewhere that is densely populated with a large economic output density. A suburb is more sparsely populated, and is mostly private houses with white picket fences etc.

 

[Yom]

We don't call the 12,000 ones "urban" though . London is something like 7 times bigger than Birmingham (the second city) and is something of an oddity (it's like it's own country really). Most "cities" in the UK are between 100,000 and 450,000, so there's not much variation in size at least from one to the other. And I think 93% of Britons live in "urban" areas anyway.

We don't call 12,000 ones urban either, I live in a city of 78,000 and it is still considered a suburb of Oakland.

Your definition of urban is wrong. It does not necessarily mean metropolitan. The U.S. government defines a city or urban area as one having a population of more than 2,500.

10,000 people as a minimum for defining an urban area is unusually high, but Williamsburg would still be defined as urban.

What you're thinking of is a metropolitan area.