>>>>I'm neither city folk nor country folk - basic suburbian. Actually, we live near farmland, but just a few miles from a large town.
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>>>Suburban is city folk. Nice try, city boy. ;)
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>>Have you ever lived or worked for a significant amount of time (say, more than a month) off the grid?
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>There was this time a few years back when we lost power for over a week due to some jackass joyriding a utility truck. ;)
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>I see a similar thing happened recently in NY.
>http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/08/27/bucket-truck-brings-down-power-lines-in-elmont/
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>Since cellphones came along it's tougher to be truly "off the grid", however, we still have some property in the Sierra's where cell coverage does not exist. When I was growing up there were times that we would go to the mountains for a couple weeks or a month. No phone, no electricity not even a generator, nothing. I don't get up there as often as I would like.
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>Before my time, our family used to run the cattle and spend the entire summer in the Sierras. My cousin was the last to do it around 5 years ago.

When I was going through school I spent 5 summers in remote fishing camps. One on Great Bear Lake, the others on Stuart Island up the coast a ways from here.

I think having an experience like that is what matters, not where one happens to live (now). Other than those summers I've always lived in the 'burbs, but if you called me a city boy I'd just smile and shake my head.