I live in the NE part of Ohio...a small town where the kids get the first day of hunting season as a holiday...and we have a "drive your tractor to school day". The entire school street is lined with tractors. We have a big oil boom in our county though...more out of town folk. But, we are not letting them change us. They are adapting to our ways...where ones open the door for people...wave even if you don't know them.
But...we vacation around areas that have hiking trails and waterfalls been to a few states doing that sort of thing as well. One of my favorite places in Ohio...is Hocking Hills. Caves,trails,waterfalls. So green with moss on everything...and...the root over rock is amazing there.
I actually live in a rural area at a private lake community. We all for the most part are like a huge family. We do lake activities so we continue to have that atmosphere here. Of being family...two summers ago...we had a tornado hit our lake community, we rallied and checked on neighbors...then did clean up. And waited for the power to eventually return. That is when they reported a tornado had hit our community. The weather service was perturbed we hadn't called 911. So they would have been informed. We had the majority cleaned up...so they couldn't assess the damage as well as they would have liked to determine the strength of it. Could only go by what was left that we hadn't gotten to. I say...we have a rare gem of a community I am proud to be apart of.