With all this talk of always online gaming in our future I am getting worried about my gaming career coming to an end. Living in rural Tennessee has made online gaming almost an impossibility for me with AT&Ts outrageous overage bills and hues net's disgustingly low bandwidth. This is why Bethesda's RPGs have been my salvation for a good single player gaming experience. It's easy to look at statistics to see the percentage of people without broadband Internet nowadays, it's not much, but I'm just curious if I'm the worlds only rural gamer.

I used to live in a rural area, but we always had internet access at good prices since the early 90's. Though we were kind of late in getting cable service which didn't appear until the mid-to-late 80's. Then again, where I lived wasn't really "rural". More like subrural. It wasn't suburbs, it wasn't rural. Somewhere in between.

Farthest I've lived from Austin was 30 miles.

Also known as "peri-urban" areas.

Yes.

There are 12 people in my grade and our classroom is in the middle of a sheep paddock.

That is what living in Tasmania is like.

For rural areas, ISPs just make excuses to not put service in these areas.

I have to drive 35-40 minutes just to get to a shop, that's how remote i am.

I live in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, weird right because I live in NJ and NJ is one big city like NY right? No, no it's not. There are rolling hills, lots of trees, cows, farms, chickens, Llamas, forests where I live. I won't ever live in an urban environment. I like living in rural places.

The city I live in has a million+ people in it...But I live about 20 Km outside the main city,it's considered a village by law but isn't very rural.

I live 15 miles from Memphis just inside the Mississippi border. It takes 30-35 minutes to get anywhere civilised in all directions. Does that count as rural?

I have a farm next door to me and one across the street. Diagonally from me is a pasture with cows and horses in it. I would think that is pretty rural.

I live in town, technically, but my house is right by the woods. Only thing keeping it from being near the woods is the cliff leading to where the wilderness is. Pretty sure having a backyard where deer, foxes, sometimes coyotes(or maybe coywolves), wild turkey, opossums, beavers, squirrels, and other woodland creatures you want to sing to if you are in a Disney film like to congregate. In fact, the field in front of my house sometimes has deer grazing. These aren't just normal deer, either. They are fat ones who probably make amazing meals for the animals who hunt them and the humans. I've seen foxes play in the snow before in my backyard, too.

My backyard also has rabbits. I'm surprised I have yet to see a cougar in my backyard. There's also ducks, but they never are in the backyard. They are in the creek the cliff leads to. Bobcats have sometimes hung out on the front porch, too. One kind of lived there for a few days during the winter.

My backyard has non-tropical tree frogs, too. My mom got one stuck to her face once. You can hear them singing in the summer. I guess you could say I love my backyard.

It's similar here, except that it's a playing field rather than a cliff. No particularly exotic wildlife, just foxes that sound like goblins at 2am, and muntjack deer that wander the street eating people's flowers. But I wouldn't class our area as rural, it's really pretty suburban, being a village just 2-3 miles from the centre of an albeit quite small city.

I grew up in a village, but it wasn't exactly "rural". The end of our street was where the farm fields started, but really the village wasn't far from where the outskirts of the city started. You could be in the centre in a 20-30 minute car ride, and it only took that long because of traffic. We were able to get pretty decent broadband there and there were shops nearby, so it didn't feel totally cut off. My parents still live there.

Compared to where I live now though, it makes the village look like a dead town. I live in the second largest city in the UK, and you can tell. Busy roads, two supermarkets and a shopping centre within spitting distance, and if your internet cuts out it's probably a total power-cut responsible. Sometimes I like it, sometimes I hate it. It's reassuring to know that if I ever needed anything, I wouldn't have to go far, but I'd still quite like to get away from the crime and disorder that comes with urban living.

Though I live in the middle of avocado and Strawbery farmland i wouldnt consider it rural, we are very well connected.

I live on a peninsula around the outskirts of Trondheim. It's only 10 minutes away from the city, and it has plenty of highways connected to it, but it's quiet and nice. I'm not sure if it qualifies as a true rural area, though.

I live in the countryside less than a mile outside the nearest town. And about 4 mile from glasgow airport. I cant get a broadband landline at all apparently.
Have to use a satellite connection, which is ok, but not fast enough for big downloads.

So yea, the talk of Always online stuff and increasingly bigger downloads for patches is slightly annoying.

Where I live has no shop, no pub and no train station. I don't mind the quiet but if it was a little bit bigger and I didn't have to get a lift with my parents/walk to get a train every time I wanna see someone or go out it would be appreciated. But that's only when I'm at home, at Uni I live in a city, but it's Canterbury, so it's like the most rural city ever, and this is someone who comes from Norwich.

I live on the edge of a town of 15,000 people and the nearest city of any size (2 million metro area) is 65 miles away. http://i49.tinypic.com/344pg76.jpg I suppose that's close enough to be called "rural". The Sierra Nevada foothills start immediately to the northeast.

I've lived in the disgusting creature known as suburban cities most of my life. Horrible creation that should have never been.