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How many of us are out

longhunterlonghunter Member Posts: 3,242
edited August 2003 in General Discussion
You know OUT as in the country,and how many are urbanites I wonder...I am just curious as to the cross section of folks we got here.
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  • alledanalledan Member Posts: 19,541
    edited November -1
    I live in a small town in the country.
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  • FrancFFrancF Member Posts: 35,279 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, I am kinda in between. Came from a town of 600 and moved to the out skirts of the city (Small one pop about 45,000) I moved from the boonies just beacuse of the mud slides and falling redwoods during bad storms.

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  • bsallybsally Member Posts: 3,165
    edited November -1
    Suburbanite. For now.[;)]

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  • rtvhrtvh Member Posts: 145 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    A town about 12,000 people

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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I used to live in the country as a renter but since we wanted to become homeowners we had to move into town. Town is small, not sure of the population bit it is not much. very "rednecky" town with a ton of rusty jacked up trucks and everybody in this county has atleast one gun in the vehicles at all times. Would love to buy in the country but the friggin land grabbing developers have shot the prices so high that unless you are wealthy or agree to doing nasty things on your knees or have a relative give you land, you're out of luck. Call me a high class suburbanite redneck[:D]
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  • boogerbooger Member Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Out, way out, dirt road kinda out. Nothing but cows and swamp here, no neigbors.

    Shoot whatever you brung.

    Them ducks is wary.
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  • shooter4shooter4 Member Posts: 4,457
    edited November -1
    14K population about 40 miles from NYC.

    Veeeerrryyyyy Democrapic.

    Live next to a town that had 790 HS seniors graduate this year. This should give you an idea of the area.

    Need to get OUT.
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My city friends say I live in the country. My country friends say I live in the city.

    "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once"
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  • GPWEAPONGPWEAPON Member Posts: 549 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    6 miles to the general store 30 minute's @ 55 to nearest Wali-world, mountains all around and about 30 min to sugarloaf. about 60 miles from canadian boarder. Been here three months and Lovin it.
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the Rocky Mountains, half an hour from any town. We do have a post office and a Kwik Mart though.

    The gene pool needs chlorine.
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  • cowdoccowdoc Member Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    well there are only five families that live in the same township as i do
    and a township is 36 sq miles for those that dont know.
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  • wundudneewundudnee Member Posts: 6,108 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I live about 2 1/2 miles off a main highway. I have lived rural for the last 40 years. I don't think they will let me move back to town now. There are more people building closer all the time, but we have enough hills and brush to have a place to shoot. 28 acres, just a big building site. I love it.[:D]

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  • soopsoop Member Posts: 4,633
    edited November -1
    In a city of aproximatly 30 thousand and I hate it.Got land in the country .Just waiting for the rest of the family to ready for the move.I`m getting tired of waiting.
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  • powdersmokepowdersmoke Member Posts: 3,241
    edited November -1
    Brooksville is more or less still a small town. Though we are getting an influx of Tampa folk and alot of Michigan,NewYork,Canada folk too.

    I also live about 6-8 miles north of town so that puts me and my 4 acres in the country.

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  • IconoclastIconoclast Member Posts: 10,515 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About 300 voters in my town; I consider it rather crowded! [:D]

    GPWEAPON - "Sugarloaf" & "60 miles to Canadian border" ??? VT??
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I live just outside the city limits of a town of 1,600.

    The town where I work, 17 miles south of here is about 25,000.



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  • tr foxtr fox Member Posts: 13,856
    edited November -1
    longhunter: I live in a 75,000 people town which is a suburb of the metro K.C. area

    When guns were invented everything changed. For the first time in the history of the world a frail woman had a chance to sucessfully defend herself and home. My dream is that one of the anti-gun nuts will need a gun for defense and be unable to have one because of their own actions.
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    A 55 minute 737 ride to get to the nearest McDonalds or Burger King. 6,000 people population in Bethel and about 25,000 in an area the size of Oregon.

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  • HangfireHangfire Member Posts: 3,010 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm very lucky!! I live in sunny SoCal where my Government provides a safe environment by not allowing nasty gunstuff[G]-Bob

    Gun control is a steady hand
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  • tr foxtr fox Member Posts: 13,856
    edited November -1
    and you longhunter?

    When guns were invented everything changed. For the first time in the history of the world a frail woman had a chance to sucessfully defend herself and home. My dream is that one of the anti-gun nuts will need a gun for defense and be unable to have one because of their own actions.
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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    Gonna be hard to top aglore's "out there"!!!!! I'm about 25 miles away from a "notable town" but only 1.4 miles from a little country store that has snuff and Miller Lite!!! When I bought the place there were only 7 houses on the road, now there are 25!!! But no zoning and I have 37 acres to have my shooting range set up and if they dislike the "bangs" they can pay my price and I'll move!! Until then, live with it or go the hell back to the city cesspool you left!!! GHD
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You cant drive to Allen's house, I tryed, you cant get there from here.[:D]

    Me, I'm a jarhead, of course I live in the city.[V]

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  • madmarc0madmarc0 Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a city boy, born and raised near Boston MA

    Ted Kennedy's car has killed more people than my gun has!
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  • Ding-a-lingDing-a-ling Member Posts: 2,105 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    6 miles out from a town of 5,000. Fixing to build on my 12 acres. Won't be but 3 miles from town.[:D]

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  • marinerahmarinerah Member Posts: 99 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    In country, surrounded by urban area. Hundreds of thousands. Too many. Need to go!
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  • Supreme OneSupreme One Member Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello, 24,551 and about 50,000 in the whole county.

    Michael

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  • Spring CreekSpring Creek Member Posts: 1,260 ✭
    edited November -1
    7 miles to nearest town. Population 135.
    Nearest neighbor close to 1 mile.
    Population density of surrounding area aveages about 2 people per square mile.
    Live on 320 acres and have natural "back stop" at 1/2 mile, so I usually just slide open the patio door and test fire any new "toys" from the dining room.
    Don't care for "crowds".
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  • jjmitchell60jjmitchell60 Member Posts: 3,887
    edited November -1
    I live 3 miles from a town of less than 1500. There are less than 2500 in the whole county! I call that out in the hills![;)]
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  • spectre7spectre7 Member Posts: 965 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Grew up with a population of 13,000, and it was the BIGGEST county in the state. Living in a college town now; 56,000 permanant residents, plus the 12,000 or so at the university. Bout 100 miles from Knoxville and probably 60 from Ashville as the nearest larger cities.

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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I live in town...not much choice in the matter though. Someday....someday...
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  • Nomad00Nomad00 Member Posts: 306 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Grew up in a small town in northeast NJ and now living in Bethlehem Twsp., PA. It's still quiet, but growing by the week.

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  • Nomad00Nomad00 Member Posts: 306 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Oh yeah, moving back to NJ[:(!][V][:(]

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  • longhunterlonghunter Member Posts: 3,242
    edited November -1
    Well,the place that I am at now is.....bout an hour or so from Canada.I live on the country end of a small mill town.Its 60 miles to a good sized city(Bangor) but the little town here has a spattering of small stores.I will be furthur out as soon as I can be.No cable etc.out here...The farms are disappearing....slowly and the woods r takin them back.There are 13 lakes,ponds real close by which means too many folks in summer[:(!]But the trappin is good,lots of bear,the deer huntin is horrible,I can get to the western mts. in an hour or so,also the coast...When I go hunting/trapping I rarely see ANYone else...Trout fishin either...which is good early....There is a Macdodo's in town and a hospital (band-aid station),which says to me...We are STILL WAY too close.....
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  • gskyhawkgskyhawk Member Posts: 4,773
    edited November -1
    live on 4 acres that are about 3 miles out side of a town of 8000, al most all of my neighbors shoot so thats not a problem , I can pop one off the deck or go out back and hammer away, going out in a few minutes to throw a few birds for the boy , he needs the practice [;)]
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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Small city of 7,200 in the middle of corn field all around.

    It's a dog-eat-dog world...and nine times out of ten I have on Milk-Bone underwear.
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  • BOBBYWINSBOBBYWINS Member Posts: 7,810
    edited November -1
    About a mile from small town of about 600,
    on 20 acres set 1/4 mile from the road.Nice
    and quiet usually.Nearest neighbor is 1/4
    mile away(old couple that keeps an eye on
    things).8 miles from Taylor where we work.
    Land being developed all around.[:(][V]
    In a few years,I'll be back in town and
    never moved a thing![:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!]


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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    ...the best of both worlds, live in a "sometimes" peaceful university community of 50,000 (80,000 when students are back). Everything you could ask for in stores and convienence.....then there's the Rembrandt Hunting Lodge which sits on 400 acres in prime deer hunting territory...
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  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    I'm two short miles from a gated country club community where I use to hunt as a kid.Town is about ten miles from me. I'm being surrounded by mobile homes on my borders 1/4 acre at a time. I've got ten acres at the crossroads of what are now the two major roads/highways.Its the last piece of any size around.Soon a grocery outfit or somesuch will want to build and will have to have buy me out. Haven't decided where I'll go yet,but it will have mountains and few people.Bozo behind me just cut down a bunch of 100 yr old trees on the border line. Those trees where planted way back when as a wind break for my back field. When spring comes the wind coming across the fields will blow his trailer home away.Serves him right the bleeping idiot.

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  • oldgunneroldgunner Member Posts: 2,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In the woods, about five miles from the nearest village, fifteen from town.

    There are no bad guns, only bad people.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I can't Help but Laugh every time I read The Topic Subject:
    "How many of us are out" of the closet? [:D] [:D] [8D]

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