Technically I live in a suburb, but it sure feels like “the city” to me. I grew up in a much more rural area, but how much different is it really? Check out https://www.tomforth.co.uk/circlepopulations/ which shows you how many people live within a spot on the map.
Using a 3 km (1.8 mile) radius, the place I grew up has 1200 people in it. I’m sure that’s dramatically higher than it was back then, but let’s just use that number. My current house has 44,000 people in that same space.
This site is a fun tool to keep in the bag, especially on those evenings when it’s super noisy in my neighborhood and I start clicking around wondering what it would be like to live somewhere else.
P.S. Context for the graphic chosen for this post: Poem: Daniel Boone by Arthur Guiterman