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1	->Almost heaven, West Virginia\
2	Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River\
3	Life is old there, older than the trees\
4	Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
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6	->Country roads, take me home\
7	to the place I belong\
8	West Virginia, mountain mama\
9	Take me home, country roads.
10	-->-- "'''Country Roads'''", Music/JohnDenver
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12	This is an index for all tropes related to the rural countryside.
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14	Compare to DeepSouth, SmallTowns, and SweetHomeAlabama. Note that CountryMatters [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant has nothing to do with the country]].
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16	!!Tropes:
17	[[index]]
18	* AgriWorld: A planet or world dedicated solely to growing food.
19	* {{Arcadia}}: An idealistic pre-modern countryside setting where residents enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
20	* CallToAgriculture: Powerful figures retiring on farms.
21	* TheCityVsTheCountry: Moving from the country to the city or vice versa to show the contrast between the two environments.
22	** BigTownBoredom: When a person who lives in a bigger city or suburb wishes they could move to a smaller or more rural place, potentially in the countryside.
23	*** SmallTownBoredom: Life in a small rural town is boring and uneventful compared to larger urbanized cities.
24	** CityMouse: Someone from an urban area tries to adjust to rural life.
25	*** CountryMouse: Someone from a rural area tries to adjust to urban life.
26	* CornyNebraska: Nebraska is a land of corn farms.
27	* CountryCousin: A relative who lives in the rural part of the country.
28	* DeterminedHomesteader: A person or family who seeks to claim land by improving it through agriculture.
29	* DevelopingNationsLackCities: Poor countries are stereotyped as being completely rural and lacking any large urbanized cities.
30	* DownOnTheFarm: Classic farm settings.
31	* DyingTown: A town that has lost its main reason for existing, or the support systems it needs to thrive, casuing it to lose its inhabitants far faster than they're replaced.
32	* FarmBoy: TheHero hails from a rural farm and receives a CallToAdventure, usually due to a SecretLegacy.
33	* FarmersDaughter: An innocent-looking rural girl.
34	* FarmLifeSim: Games about the life of a farmer.
35	* FirstContactFarmer: Aliens meet rural farmers first.
36	* FlyoverCountry: Everything between the East and West Coasts in the USA.
37	* FromNewYorkToNowhere: Relocating from a big city to a small town in the middle of nowhere.
38	* HalfWittedHillbilly: A person from the countryside who is backward, ignorant, or outright stupid.
39	* HayseedName: Stereotypical names for hillbillies or country bumpkins.
40	* HealthyCountryAir: Air in rural areas is cleaner and healthier than that in urban areas.
41	* HillbillyIncest: Incest that is associated with poor, rural people.
42	* IdyllicEnglishVillage: An Arcadian and often romanticized rural English settlement.
43	* KiddyCoveralls: Kids in the country wear overalls to keep "nicer" clothes clean.
44	* OverallsAndGingham: People from rural areas wear gingham and/or overalls.
45	* PastoralScienceFiction: Science fiction set in the countryside.
46	* RoadkillForDinner: Eating an animal you ran over with your car, usually a trait of poorer rural folk.
47	* RollInTheHay: Doing the do while lying in a hay barrack in a barn or one in an open field.
48	* RoughOveralls: People from the country wear overalls, with or without gingham.
49	* RuralGangsters: Gangsters from the countryside.
50	* TheSimpleLifeIsSimple: Farming life being depicted as simple in fiction.
51	* SmallTownTyrant: Evil, corrupt rural authority figures.
52	[[/index]]

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