TODAY’S POLL

LAST POLL RESULTS

40.1% of you voted A suburb near a city in yesterday’s poll: Which type of area do you currently live in?

“Maple Shade — a small-town suburb outside Philadelphia with a ’70s song by Seneca Trail.”

“We enjoy all the accoutrements of a nice suburb with easy access to Chicago. Of course, you run into the typical suburban hang-ups. The key is finding your people and not getting caught up in the competition.”

“My kind of town, Chicago is…”

“I live in a small town by the bay in the San Francisco Bay Area — just not in San Francisco.”

“Close enough, but at the same time, far enough!”

“I need to be near a city, but I like having parking, so it’s the suburbs for me!”

“The attractions of the city used to be important.”

“A suburb, and it sucks.”

“It used to be a small town until everyone started moving here to escape the city. Now I’m wanting to move to a rural area or the countryside, stat.”

“While it’s considered rural by the state and county, where I live is really more of a suburb — even though it’s not near a big city. Having lived in rural areas before, I can tell you I’m not in a rural area now. Backwards, yes. Rural, no. Nonetheless, the weather is nice.”

“I live in an area classified as rural, but the reality is beginning to set in that it has become a suburb between a small town and a large city.”

“I rent an apartment in an area that I love (perfect for singles), but if/when I settle down, it’s a dream of mine for my family and me to live in the countryside.”

“I have the perfect setup. I live in a rural area just outside a small city, but only 90 miles from a major city. My home is quiet and safe, but I’m close enough to all the amenities I could want.”

“Rural side of the state, but with a population of 17,000. Town or small city??”

“CITY OF ABOUT 30,000.”

“I live in an HOA in a rural setting near Disney World that functions like a small town.”

“I live in a rural county, but close to three small, growing seaside towns that draw tourists and vacationers. Peaceful but lively!”

“Rockville, Indiana, is about as small a town as one can live in, although there are a few smaller ones here and there.”

“A nice little town in Wisconsin right near the Mississippi River.”

“I live out in the sticks. My long, bumpy driveway up to my house never fails to amaze guests. I can hear the distant train when it passes. Solitude is wonderful — Thoreau would approve.”

“I live in a small town on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.”

“Born in a small town; I’ll die in a big city.”

“I will always be a downtown city person!”

“We used to live in a smaller (but growing!) city, but as we and our kids got older, we decided to move back to a properly big city, so we could access better public transportation and stop driving so much, spend more time outdoors just walking where we need to go, and swap the maintenance of a house for the ease of condo living. It’s improved our lives exponentially!”

“I have two homes. The main one, and the one I’ve lived in the longest, is in a neighborhood that’s probably classified as suburban, but it’s within a huge city’s limits. My second home — where I want to move permanently — is in a smaller but growing and developing beach city in the state below me. Unless you live out in the country with nothing around you, there’s growth and development everywhere! We can’t escape it, lol!”

“I live on a little island down the Jersey Shore.”

“The beach, baby — on a Florida Key.”

“Medium-sized beach town along the coast — 100,000 people.”

“Semi-rural near the Gulf Shore, with tourism and entertainment abundant.”

“Las Vegas, but in the unincorporated original Vegas area, so we have horses and chickens. Large properties — not those horrific track-home areas with no yards.”

“Going back to the ’burbs.”

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