If you're naked on your front porch and the neighbors can't see you, its rural.

If you're naked on the front porch and the neighbors call the cops, it's suburban.

If you're naked on the front porch and the neighbors ignore you, its urban.

If you're naked on the front porch and your naked neighbor (also on their front porch) waves at you, it's Florida.

@cmconseils No.1. It would take hours for the Sheriff to show up. And no one would care.

(for non-US readers: "Unincorporated" means outside the boundaries of a city's formal jurisdiction. Most such areas are overseen by a Sheriff's [from "shire reeve"] office, which is often under-staffed.)

@c_merriweather @cmconseils Yeah unfortunately too many police departments are happy to take the overtime and grants for military hardware instead of working on a budget to adequately staff themselves. 🙄🫩

But how long it takes them to show up varies from fine to “you had to come HOW far?!” Where I am is a rare barely-affordable unincorporated town in an affluent county. So the cops from the county and nearby towns live here & we get pretty quick service.

@heartofcoyote
We are rural. The county seat and Sheriff's office is 25 miles away, over a winding two-lane road. There are a number of "villages" spread around the county (pop. ~65,000), and two incorporated towns with their own police forces (~5,000 and ~13,000). That's it.

@cmconseils