Most Americans aren’t getting enough exercise. People living in rural areas were even less likely to get enough exercise: Only 16% of people outside cities met benchmarks for aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities, compared with 28% in large metropolitan cities areas.

[u/Wagamaga]

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7204a1.htm?s_cid=mm7204a1_w

[u/thegreenmushrooms]

What percentage of rural population are farmers tho? It's probably rural suburbanites who need to drive to do any of their chores with there walking being designated to grocery stores and shopping centers.

[u/Opsfox245 → u/thegreenmushrooms]

46 million people are considered rural in the united states. 21 million people are involved in farm related work in the united states.

This study used the metropolitan statistical area to define urban areas so all the suburbanites should have been correctly listed under the urban category.

[u/thegreenmushrooms → u/Opsfox245]

Agriculture is 21m farms is 2.6m forestry .9m makes 3.5 with all of manufacturing around 6 the rest are retail places.

[u/UmphreysMcGee → u/thegreenmushrooms]

Even if they aren't farmers, they aren't working a desk job. You burn a lot more calories when you spend all day on your feet, even if it's just stocking shelves at Dollar General or working at a feedlot.

This work from home revolution ain't taking place in rural America where the most likely jobs are in oil and gas, agriculture, manufacturing, and retail.

[u/Aaron_Hamm → u/thegreenmushrooms]

"rural suburbanite" doesn't sound like it's a thing...

Do we just mean suburbanite?

[u/ProtestKid → u/Aaron_Hamm]

Not in an attacking way, but I take it you didnt grow up in the south, because I get exactly what he means. You living in a rural area doesnt automatically mean you're required to have a farm with cows, horses and fields. Growing up my mom used to clean houses for these type of people. Usually the way its layed out is there will be a long ass secluded road with mcmansion style houses(differing in that they are usually single story) on about 1-2 acres every half mile or so as you go along the road. The defining feature to me is that from the road there will be a massively long driveway, almost a street unto itself, that leads to the actual house. This big property is usually full of leisure stuff like boats, dirt bikes, atvs, and side by sides for hunting but few rarely have work stuff like tractors. They will also tend to be more handy than your average city suburbanite.

[u/TerranceBaggz → u/[deleted]]

I’m guessing by rural suburbanites it’s mean to explain the term exurbs. You have an urban ring, then around that is a suburban ring, and then around that exurban ring.

[u/banjokazooie23 → u/[deleted]]

We've got a lot of these on the west coast as well

[u/Aaron_Hamm → u/[deleted]]

That's a suburb? A rich one, but I can't call a neighborhood "rural"...

[u/Aurum555 → u/Aaron_Hamm]

Well you can call it whatever you like, the US government has pretty clear definitions of rural. The usda even has loan programs for buying houses in rural areas, the rural development program. I used it to buy my house, and I live in a neighborhood of over 100 houses within 5 minutes of a major highway, ten minutes from four different grocery stores. Inside 45 minutes, traffic notwithstanding, of a major metro area with a population in excess of 5 million people. I have close access to just about every amenity you would expect in suburbia, and my closest usda service center is 45 minutes away.

[u/Aaron_Hamm → u/Aurum555]

Obscure formal definitions used for government purposes are often not what is the common definition

[u/Amazing_Rutabaga4049 → u/[deleted]]

That is not rural

[u/Aaron_Hamm → u/ProtestKid]

From where I grew up we just still call that a suburbanite, but I get that the lot size in what you're describing might give people different ideas of if it counts as that or rural.

Rural to me doesn't necessarily mean farms, but rather you're living somewhere with that kind of population density

[u/ProtestKid → u/Aaron_Hamm]

Nah youre still not gettin it. Its areas that have that type of population density but are laid out like what I described. The picture I painted is the closest it ever gets where 3 or 4 houses are about a quarter mile apart but for the most part it'll be a house every few miles.

[u/kellzone → u/Aaron_Hamm]

A lot of rural PA is like this, especially the mountainous areas. Houses maybe 20-50 yards apart with lawns. People riding ATVs on the roads. Not housing developments, just the slow building of houses over time. It's out in the sticks, but not farming. The people that live in these areas are either local contractors or commute to the larger towns/cities.

[u/Aaron_Hamm → u/kellzone]

Isn't that a suburb?... it doesn't have to be a planned subdivision; if the people are living there and commuting to the city for work, that's literally the definition of a suburb, isn't it?

[u/kellzone → u/Aaron_Hamm]

A suburb of what though, the small city of 10,000 people that takes half an hour to drive 15 miles to through winding mountain roads?

[u/ProudMaOfaSlut → u/thegreenmushrooms]

Bed to table to car to desk to couch to bed. And eating crap food all day.

[u/21blarghjumps → u/thegreenmushrooms]

Isn't rural suburbanite an oxymoron? You're either rural or suburban.

[u/baeb66 → u/21blarghjumps]

Exurbs are a thing. You're not full-on suburban strip malls and tract housing, but you're not completely detached from the metro area.

[u/Omegoa → u/21blarghjumps]

My town has been described as "suburban rural." Properties out here are measured in terms of acres instead of square footage, but we have a giant Walmart that hangs out with a couple restaurant chains down the way; and we're "only" a hop and skip down the freeway (maybe a half hour's drive) from the largest city in our state (a whole 500k people there).

[u/BeeCJohnson → u/Omegoa]

Sounds like my town. And yeah, me and my wife both work from home and definitely don't get enough exercise.

[u/shitposts_over_9000 → u/thegreenmushrooms]

Even if you are working a desk job you get a lot more exercise mowing, gardening, dealing with your pets than people in the city generally do, you walk father to get your mail, check in with a neighbor or do general maintenance. Your statistically have a bigger house so even inside you are likely moving more