Reply #48: I lived on the west side of Marin County

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off Highway 1 for a few years in the early '70s, so although it was close to SF, it seemed very isolated. I also lived in a tiny town in the lower Sierras, on a commune in Southern Oregon and in a tipi in the Panamint Mountains. I spent the first seven years of my life on a small farm in Southwest Ohio with no indoor plumbing. My uncles used to hunt squirrels and rabbits, and we ate them, and my mother "put up" vegetables from our garden. I don't remember us ever going to a grocery store when I was little.

Now I live in the big city of Anchorage, but there's lots of rural around here, for sure.