[hunterb123]

Small towns have grocery stores and hospitals...

My small town has a Walmart supercenter and another grocery store

Rural is generally farm land outside of small towns, that's where people drive to get groceries.

Land outside a medium city is a suburb, not rural.

[akuchling]

Rural hospitals are going bankrupt and closing.

https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/21/lawmakers-act-prevent-ru...

"21 percent of rural hospitals nationwide are currently at high risk of imminent closure. It’s more than double that in states like Alabama, Mississippi, and Alaska, where upward of half of all rural hospitals are at high risk of closing. Overall, this adds up to about 430 hospitals in 43 states that collectively provide care for millions of Americans and employ more than 150,000 people."

[Clubber]

>Small towns have grocery stores and hospitals...

Yes, but 4-40 acres gets a lot cheaper the further you go from the town. My point was as he was looking and pricing, make sure you are 30 minutes away from a grocery store or hospital. You can always grow a garden and hunt if you so desire, but if you break your leg or something, an hour is a long drive to get it fixed.

>Land outside a medium city is a suburb, not rural.

Depends on the city.

[hunterb123]

I guess my point was you don't need to drive to a "medium city" for groceries.

Unless you're in sparser areas like Wyoming, Nevada, West Texas, etc. you're always 30 minutes or so from the nearest town no matter where you live.

If you're looking for 4-40 acres, you're not wanting land out in backcountry, you're wanting land outside a town.

[bombcar]

I really wonder about some people, and exactly where they’re finding these areas.

I suspect it’s mainly people near the high desert in the West where you can go 90 miles between gas stations.

I would consider where I am to be the edge of rural and even if I go deeper into it there are still grocery stores and hospitals.

An overlay for Google maps showing the 30 minute boundaries would be nice.

[Clubber]

Rural hospitals have been shut down quite a bit in the last 20 or so years.

https://sidecarhealth.com/blog/181-rural-hospitals-have-clos...

[gamechangr]

Kansas City 2.1 Million people

My brother lives there. There are 20-40k towns 30 min in almost every direction. One is college town called Lawrence, Kansas, which had quite a few startups when Iwent through last summer. Coffee shops full of 20's coding.

[sjmm1989]

And towns ironically can get as big as a small city. Small in the truest form though, keep in mind.