Six Cities in One Hour

[Richard in Smithville]

After reading the post on being rural, I was reminded of when I had some relatives visit from Tasmania. The drive from Pearson( Toronto ) airport is a little over an hour to my house. Pete had commented on how much it was built up along the side of the hwy for most of the drive. The look on his face was priceless when I told him that during the hour drive, we passed through six different cities and two towns. I guess he was very rural.

[jackellis]

I have flown over large sections of the western US, British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska where there were a few houses separated by many miles. The complete opposite of the urban areas I've lived in my entire life.

There's a darned good reason the Canadian and US authorities require pilots in light aircraft to carry survival gear.

[Tom Slick]

I've always lived "in town" but 10 mins of driving and you are "out of town" and its another 10 mins to get to the next town. I've almost always lived in agricultural areas, cows, orange trees, and grape vines are "normal" countryside to me.

[leehljp]

I grew up on a farm in MS in which my nearest neighbor was about 2 miles away. Lived on the farm until I went off to college. Eventually moved to Tokyo!

Lived in Tokyo for 5 years. Put a pin in the center of Tokyo and draw a circle with a 50 mile radius and you cover almost 40 million people. I moved to Osaka which has 18 million in its region (50 mile radius circle.) Thought I was back out in the country after leaving Tokyo!

Then I moved to Nagoya/Toyota Metro area of about 80 miles by 40 miles. 10 million. I AM back in the country!