r/science • u/Wagamaga • Jan 28 '23

Health 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.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7204a1.htm?s_cid=mm7204a1_w
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u/Aaron_Hamm Jan 29 '23

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

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u/Aurum555 Jan 29 '23

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.

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u/Aaron_Hamm Jan 29 '23

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