rural setting
Away from cities
A rural setting is a location in the countryside rather than a city or suburb—farmland, small villages, open fields, or wilderness.
The phrase appears most often in real estate listings and fiction descriptions: The novel takes place in a rural setting in 1920s Mississippi.
They wanted to raise their children in a rural setting.
- dirt roadUnpaved rural thoroughfare
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- country roadRural thoroughfare between towns
- barnAgricultural storage structure
- hay baleCompressed dried grasses
meadow · wildflowers · village · general store · stargazing · early morning · folk traditions · farmland · family farm · back forty · dairy · bucolic · oak tree · harvest · forest · homestead · open sky · livestock
- farm lifefarm, farmer, farmers, farming, barn
- environmentsocean, forest, desert, mountain, island
- American placesNew York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco
- filming locationsstudio, soundstage, backlot, set, forest scene
- literary settingsfictional world, story world, Hogwarts, Narnia, Middle-earth
- outdoor theatersopen-air stage, outdoor stage, amphitheater, drive-in theater, summer theater
rural settingurban setting
Built-up populated area
city · urban environment · urban area · metropolis · metropolitan area
rural settingurban landscape
Built environment's appearance
cityscape · concrete jungle · industrial landscape · asphalt jungle · built environment
rural settingurban lifestyle
Metropolitan way of living
city life · bustling metropolis · high-rise living · crowded streets