rurban
town of alliston ontario, best of both worlds (urban & rural)
you work at the office, live on a farm, clean the driveway with a tractor only to take your audi to work… your rurban
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(adj.) a place that has a rural setting that is in the outskirts of an urban environment.
rodney: umbc has such a rurban community!
creamy: yuuuuuup. bingo, macaroni.
l. june: bet.
rhymes with “urban”. you live in the country, but you own no cows. you have all of the piped-in, cable-driven commercial needz as your rural brethren, but with far less concrete.
i saw some kids out in the country sporting some emo gear. they were definately rurban, suffering the fashion dictates of mtv.
a rural or small town dweller who adopts an urban lifestyle.
a rurban male or female has a graduate & post graduate education, is technologically advanced, is empowered by digital communication platforms, is an internet junkie, prefers designer interiors, plans a smaller nuclear family, marries later, has a non-traditional job involving commute, is a frequent foreign traveller for pleasure, engages in conspicuous consumption of lifestyle products, travels to larger supermarkets rather than shopping locally, drives a car more suited to urban commuting, is aware of world & national issues though probably less so of local politics.
liam was a typical rurban male; good income, good clothes, a newly built mac-cottage and a coupe that bottomed out on the country roads.
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