When you have turned the extra bedroom into a chick brooding / animal rehabilitating room.
When you go through mcdonalds drive through with a cat, dog, goat, and a pig in the backseat, ordering a burger for each.
When you do the above ^ and the cashier looks at the goat and says, "What a beautiful dog." You smile and nod.
When you have fenced in every single flower or plant on your entire property because all your animals run free and you don't want them eating your plants.
When you have wooden gates across all the doors, because somehow the goat has figured out how to open door knobs.
When you horses are staring into your window wanting to be fed.
When you go to a restaurant in your boots, dirty shirt, and a big brown stain on your butt from riding sweaty horses bareback.
When you saved thousands of dollars and bought chickens instead of a new car and cellphone.
ETA:
When your police department, library, jail, fire department and court house are all in the same building. And it's a building about the size of a gas station.
Haha. I will stop now. Before I drive everyone crazy. I've never noticed how much of a hick I am.