We all have our own 'homesteads' both large and small but that does not mean we all live in the same kind of living areas as others. Permies live all over the world in all different situations, where do you consider your homestead to be residing in when we talk about population living areas.
I'm reporting in from New York, but not that New York. I'm in corn and cow country. American flags and lifted pickup trucks the same cost as my mortgage. Rural it is for me.
I believe that our land had been under a Spanish Land Grant until about 1995 when about 500 acres were sold to a land developer who sold off 40 to 160 acre plots.
While we are not the first owners, we are the first to live full time and this is our homestead where deer are our livestock.
Invasive plants are Earth's way of insisting we notice her medicines. Stephen Herrod Buhner
Everyone learns what works by learning what doesn't work. Stephen Herrod Buhner
I'm in the burbs around East Los Angeles. (Azusa, Ca) My yard started as a hydrophobic dead orchard. It's not a forrest and probably won't
be by the time we move but it is better.
Rural off a gravel road tucked behind a cemetery. I am surrounded by woods. People can drive up within a few feet of my property and not be aware anyone is living here
….give me coffee to do the things I can and bourbon to accept the things I can’t.
Flora Eerschay wrote:Suburban, although it used to be rural. Similar to my previous place, which also used to be rural before I moved there. My city is expanding!
I'm not far from the same situation! I was talking with a few friends about the amount of traffic we are seeing down our main street compared to even five years ago. I'll probably be in the new hot place to live by the time I retire. As long as I can keep my fruit trees!
Urban farm all the way! I live in a greater metro area of over 2 million, walking distance to main artery bus lines, small urban backyard. Technically it is "periphery" as it isn't the main city proper, but in my corner of the world the periphery often has higher population density and traffic than the centers.
I live 12 miles from a small town. The area where I live, on 40 mtn. acres bordering BLM and USFS, is some of the only private property available this far from town. The road that my 3/4 mile driveway intersects is a Oregon State Hwy., that ends at a National Monument. I have my own access into the National forest above me, and have never met anyone in the forest when I have been hiking around, mushroom hunting, etc. I have seen logging activity atound me, but still consider myself on the "edge" of wilderness. I have seen black bear and mountain lion/cougar 75 feet from my back door. I did vote "rural".
Rural. The traffic here is the farmer (who is also our neighbour) with his helpers driving back and forth with tractor(s) with or without special gadgets on them/haybales/whatnot. The next town is about 10 minutes ride from where we are, but I enjoy the relative* peace and quiet here thoroughly!
*relative = our cockerels are having a singing competition with those of our other neighbour