Rural areas are sparsely settled places away from the influence of large cities and towns. Such areas are distinct from more intensively settled urban and suburban areas, and also from unsettled lands such as outback or wilderness. People live in villages, on farms and in other isolated houses.
Rural areas can have an agricultural character, though many rural areas are characterized by an economy based on logging, mining, oil and gas exploration, or tourism.
Lifestyles in rural areas are different than those in urban areas, mainly because limited services are available. Governmental services like law enforcement, schools, fire departments, and libraries may be distant, limited in scope, or unavailable. Utilities like water, sewer, street lighting, and garbage collection may not be present. Public transport is absent or very limited, people use their own vehicles, walk or ride an animal.
Countryside remained, however, a quiet farming community until the post-World War II era, when "suburbia" was born.
Countryside became a "bedroom" community, with workers commuting to Chicago every morning and returning to their suburban homes every evening.
Countryside's residential landscape presents a pleasing blend of old and new, all situated along quiet, tree-lined streets of meticulously maintained lawns and gardens.
The Countryside Alliance's purpose is to campaign for the countryside, country sports and the rural way of life.
The challenge was brought under the names of three petitioners: John Jackson, Chairman of the Countryside Alliance; Mair Hughes, a flsmith’s wife from Glamorgan and Patrick Martin, Huntsman of the Oxfordshire-based Bicester with Whaddon Chase Hunt.
The Countryside Alliance argued that the 1949 Parliament Act, which was used to force the Hunting Act onto the statute book against the will of the House of Lords in November last year, was invalid because of the way in which it came into being by use of the 1911 Parliament Act.
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