How big/small is your town?

[MommyMagpie]

Permanent residents, about 30,000. University students more than double that figure; eight months out of the year it takes a full 15 minutes to drive through downtown from my house to the river (I can see the bridge from my house). When the kids aren't here that same drive takes less than 5 minutes.

My neighborhood is about half students and half owner-occupied houses, and I am the only one with chickens so far. There is a woman who hand-raises orphan kids (goats) and lambs for the University's ag program about 3 streets over, but that's it for livestock here.

 

[JulieNKC]

As of 2010, the population census was 459,787 with a metro area of 2.1 million. I am one of the 459,787

 

[Chickenrandomness]

got a good 3 or 4 thousand over here

back in Stanley ND there was like, less than 2000

i hear Wyzetta MN has a very big population. You could mistake their high school for a shopping mall!

 

[JD4570]

My zipcode has about 9620, but you're talking about 250 square miles! I miss the town I grew up in, only 213.

 

[flyjam1979]

live in community, no pop. posted, mail comes from 15 minutes away no posted pop. there either, 1 church, post office, county barn, and houses, work from town about 30 miles away pop. 26,000

 

[debilorrah]

Where I live is a bit of a mixed bag. San Bernardino County is one of 7 conservative counties in CA and the largest county in the nation. By square miles that is. I live in a region known as the High Desert, the Mojave. Our population now rests at 362,000 plus or minus a few hundred. This includes communities of Apple Valley, Hesperia (where I live), Victorville, Adelanto, Lucerne Valley, Oak Hills, Phelan, Pinon Hills. Most of the communities are wide-spread. However, few offer what Hesperia does: limits on small fowl is 130, large livestock 8, no noise ordinance for livestock. In other words, it doesn't matter how early your bird crows or how loudly. And every morning this neighborhood has a cacophony of roosters crowing.

All the other communities around us have some really ridiculous limits. Can't have more than 20 goldfish in Victorville, and in Phelan you are allowed 99 hens and one rooster (someone was drinking when they thought THAT one up). I wonder if Victorville has an opening for a goldfish counter.

 

[Illia]

I live 14 miles outside a town of less than 4,000.



To give a good idea of things -

The next town bigger than 10,00 is 1 1/2 hours away.

The next city bigger than 20,000 is over 3 hours away.

The next city bigger than 100,000 is about 5 hours away.



To go to a mall is a 3 hour drive there.

To go to a McDonald's, Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Costco, Taco-Bell, Petco, or Home Depot is a 2 hour drive there.

 

[Fierlin1182]

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I'm curious about how the American zip code thing works. Here we have a different postcode for each area of the city.

Debi, that sounds awesome. I miss the sound of a rooster crowing... Next door held onto theirs for about a week before they had to give him away.

 

[Fierlin1182]

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Gee, sounds like a holiday I went on once. We drove for hours across empty countryside and thought we were hallucinating when we saw a '24 HRS McDonalds' sign posted by the side of the highway with an arrow pointing west...

 

[Illia]

Well, just imagine very curvy winding roads with lots and lots and lots of trees, clearcuts, and huge rolling hills. Filled of course with trees and scattered clearcuts.

(try to picture 90% coniferous trees. No pines - just firs, spruce, and hemlocks. Very few deciduous trees, no Oaks or the sort.)