Town of 12000, surrounded by a lot of nothing.
Urban? Sort of.
We actually moved into town from 10 miles out. It wasn’t vision of perfection that many assume.
With three kids, the trips to town were constant, school activities, sports, work, grocery shopping and more.
We were easily dropping $400 a month in gas. We won’t even go into the heating bill in the rental place. But between the two we were paying more than the payment on the house we were trying to sell from where we left.
No cell phone reception, limited internet access, it just didn’t work.
Especially with kids.
The water supply, while it had its own well had to be double filtered because of the high sulphur content.
Even then, still nasty.
Town has its advantages.