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53. Rural. I grew up in a very small community on a lake connected to Lake Michigan in northern lower

Thu Jul 10, 2025, 09:44 AM

Jul 10

Michigan. Awesome swimming in the summer, lots of woods and quite a few kids to play with. Winters kinda sucked what with all the Lake Effect snow blowing off of the Big Lake, but we still had fun. I envied the kids that lived "in town" (about 5 miles away) because they had actual sidewalks where they could skateboard and walk without the danger of being hit by an 18-wheeler going up M-66, lol. Went to a one-room school grades K-6, there were 5 kids in my class, all boys but me, and there were about 30 kids total. We could ride a nearby farmer's horses any time we wanted as long as we could catch them in the fields, lol, which is where I learned to ride bareback. I still love it. Looking back, it was pretty cool.

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What neighborhood did you grow up in --city, rural, or suburbs? Mine is city until 8th grade. then suburbs. Culture [View all] debm55 Jul 9 OP

Where I grew up was rural at the time but transitioning to suburban Walleye Jul 9 #1

Thank you very much Walleye for sharing with us. debm55 Jul 9 #2

Townie here SARose Jul 9 #3

Thank you very much SARose, It sounds like you had lots of fun. debm55 Jul 9 #12

Kind of depends on how you define each entity rurallib Jul 9 #4

Thank you very much, rurallib. College towns are very diverse. Love them debm55 Jul 9 #11

I grew up on a family farm in Ohio. sinkingfeeling Jul 9 #5

Thank you very much, sinkingfeeling. debm55 Jul 9 #10

Town of 160 people in Nebraska. Bee, Nebraska. Sold ice cream at the post office. OLDMDDEM Jul 9 #6

HAHAHAHAHHAAH. Thank you OLDMDDEM. How did you get out of there? debm55 Jul 9 #9

Fortunately, my dad got a job in the big city, Lincoln. OLDMDDEM Jul 9 #14

Lucky you. Thanks, OLDMDDEM. debm55 Jul 9 #16

Wow, that's small! The 3 smallest places I've ever been to were... electric_blue68 Jul 9 #40

This community was all Czech and German. You spoke one or the other. OLDMDDEM Jul 10 #46

Small town to big city to suburbs. LoisB Jul 9 #7

Thank you very much ,LoisB. debm55 Jul 9 #8

It was a small town in northeastern Iowa. rsdsharp Jul 9 #13

HAHAhahhahahhahha. Good one. Thank you very much, rsdsharp debm55 Jul 9 #17

Rural MissB Jul 9 #15

Great post , MissB. It was a great place for kids. debm55 Jul 9 #18

I grew up in a suburban neighborhood on Long Island. lucca18 Jul 9 #19

Thank you very much Iucca18 debm55 Jul 9 #22

thank you very much. electric_blue 68, What great memories. debm55 Jul 10 #49

Jones Beach! Happy memories! electric_blue68 Jul 9 #41

I love the detailed description of your Jones Beach memories! lucca18 Jul 10 #70

YW. It was wonderful to remember. electric_blue68 Jul 10 #71

I grew up in a number of states LogDog75 Jul 9 #20

That sounds great LogDog75, You have the ocean, great temps. I like it. Enjoy. debm55 Jul 9 #23

All of the above ... Dorothy V Jul 9 #21

Thank you very much Dorothy V. Wow you have lived in so many places. debm55 Jul 9 #24

Very diverse! 👍 electric_blue68 Jul 9 #42

City ProfessorGAC Jul 9 #25

Thank you very much ProfessorGAC. That is very interesting. debm55 Jul 9 #29

Always lived in burbs SheltieLover Jul 9 #26

Thank you SheltieLover. debm55 Jul 9 #30

City. greatauntoftriplets Jul 9 #27

Thank you very much for sharing with us. greatauntoftriplets. It sounds like the perfect place to raise kids. debm55 Jul 9 #31

It still is a great place. greatauntoftriplets Jul 9 #34

Thank you so much. That is good to know. debm55 Jul 10 #51

Grew up in Chicago. boonecreek Jul 9 #28

Thank you very much for sharing with us, boonecreek. Such a greet city. debm55 Jul 9 #32

Lived on the west side of Detroit. Moved downriver, now we live in a rural area near the lake. Srkdqltr Jul 9 #33

Downtown gopiscrap Jul 9 #35

Thank you very much gopiscrap for sharing with us. debm55 Jul 9 #36

The Oakland section of Pittsburgh-urban row house. A very walkable neighborhood. cloudbase Jul 9 #37

I am from SW of Pittsburgh. I live very near the old Century III mall Thank you for posting cloudbase. PS I live very debm55 Jul 9 #38

I lived in a rural area that was developed into a suburb. We went from potato farms and woods to tract housing... NNadir Jul 9 #39

thank you NNagir. I see it around here too. Dairy farms and regular farms that we visited in girl scouts have turned debm55 Jul 10 #52

All the places of my childhood have been obliterated by very wealthy people. hunter Jul 9 #43

NYC. 'nuff said............j/king..... electric_blue68 Jul 9 #44

Thank you very much,electric_blue68 that sounds wounderful debm55 Jul 10 #48

I grew up in the suburbs, sestina Jul 10 #45

Thank you very much, sestina. That sounds so different then my suburbs that I lived in after 8 grade. My had no sidewalk debm55 Jul 10 #47

Working class suburb in a working class town. Emile Jul 10 #50

Thank you Emile, I considered mine a city But it was a small city located next to a Steel Mill.Thank you for sharing. debm55 Jul 10 #56

Rural. I grew up in a very small community on a lake connected to Lake Michigan in northern lower catbyte Jul 10 #53

That sounds like a very nice place to live and grow up. Thank you very much for sharing with us, catbtye. debm55 Jul 10 #57

The road I grew up on was a mix of rural and BlueKota Jul 10 #54

I agree with you BlueKota. Up the hill they are building an extension of the turnpike that would go from Pittsburgh to debm55 Jul 10 #58

I was raised in a small town in Michigan Americanme Jul 10 #55

Thank you very much for sharing with us Americanme. debm55 Jul 10 #59

Small city in Kentucky get the red out Jul 10 #60

Thank you very much , get the red out. Same here ----you had to have a car, no buses, no walking to store. So everyone debm55 Jul 10 #61

Its funny get the red out Jul 10 #65

Thank you, get the red out. debm55 Jul 10 #68

burbs. glendora ca . 25 mi east of la on old route 66. then to sonora ca , late 1984, then to tic toc base in 2005 AllaN01Bear Jul 10 #62

Thank you very much for sharing with us, Bear, You have lived in a lot of places. debm55 Jul 10 #63

Suburbia... city... suburbia Nittersing Jul 10 #64

Thank you very much Nittersing. You have lived in unique places. Thank you for sharing. debm55 Jul 10 #66

"inner city" as they call it Eugene Jul 10 #67

Thank you very much for sharing with us. Eugene. debm55 Jul 10 #69