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rural

in, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town
Royal rulers ruled rural republics.
by bluestinger66 February 3, 2025
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Rural Dictionary

kinda the opposite of the website you're on right now.
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Sub-Rural

Suburban/Rural hybrid towns that boomed in the 21st Century but are never depicted in media. Sometimes referred to as the Exurbs. Movies pretend these places don’t exist because filming here would depress the director.
A type of town that looks rural from a plane but looks suburban-inspired up close, like a suburb that gave up half-way.

The final boss of car-dependent city planning.

Nothing is walkable or connected. Everything is near everything, yet unreachable without a car.

Too many fields, overgrown ditches, empty lots, & dying buildings to be suburban — but too many gas stations, big intersections, chain stores, & commercial strips to be rural.

The Final Boss of car-dependent sprawl where you get the traffic of a major city without the jobs, walkability, basic amenities, nightlife, or human interaction. You have plenty of neighbors but you'll never meet them.

A great place to live if you hate people & love driving in heavy traffic. A worse place to live than Norilsk if you wish to date or have a social life.
Dude I live in Sub-Rural Texas, we don't have nightlife here.

In the wake of urban decay, many well-off city folks are headed out to new sub-rural developments.

The movies still think we all live in Time Square, most of us live in Sub-Rural sprawl these days. Imagine if they actually filmed their movies in a Sub-Rural town.

In my Sub-Rural town, everything you want to buy is a drive to another town. All we have here is gasoline, soda, & tire shops.
by Evan Joestar November 13, 2025
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rogue rural

A loose-knit demographic of country dwellers who have voluntarily and selectively abstained from modern technological advancements such as artificial intelligence (AI).
The ‘rogue rural’ movement is less about faith and more about finding the off-ramp from the hyper-connected economy. They use cell phones but would blow a hole in an Alexa system with a shotgun.
by TR Arterburn December 6, 2025
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