When people talk about rural areas what do they mean?

I’ve heard that some of the most lucrative areas are the rural ones. But I’m curious as to what that means. I consider myself as having grown up rural and I lived out in the sticks, if I climbed on my roof I wouldn’t have been able to see any houses. The biggest town in the whole county only had about 3,500 people and the county itself only had about 17,000 people if I recall. I asked on another website if it would be possible to practice in a town with about 500 people but no other dentists... Read more
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