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Where the nearest neighbor is a field and the loudest thing is silence.
means Relating to the countryside — open land, farms, and small populations rather than cities.
from From Latin ruralis, from rus, meaning open country or farmland — the same root that grows rustic and rural's snobbier cousin, boor.
Census lineDefined as anywhere not urban — countryside by exclusion.
Shrinking worldMost humans became city-dwellers around 2007.
Rus rootShares ancestry with rustic and, oddly, boorish.