Go walk the streets of Beijing. It's pretty hard to argue it isn't a modern city. Now, if you go outside [of Beijing], in the rural areas, that's true. But rural America, you can say the same thing, in Appalachia there's an awful lot of poverty and lack of education.
Poverty is considered quaint in the rural areas because it comes thatched.
The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities
The use of methamphetamines has become pervasive in our country, and especially in rural areas.
Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.
I've been to Asia, but I'd love to go to Thailand. I'd love to go to some rural areas in China.
Nigerian nun Bernadette Duru says the African church hierarchy is indifferent to people in rural areas.
We cleared many of their towns and cities and rural areas of al-Qaida Iraq and other insurgents.
Meth is a major problem not only in our urban areas, but in most of the rural areas of Colorado. No region has been immune from this scourge and it is getting larger.
Cities are judged by their richest inhabitants and rural areas are judged
Individual transportation has become synonymous for freedom and liberty, so it would be difficult to actually get rid of individualized transport, and in rural areas that would be impossible.
Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.
However, if we examine the Canadian scene closely enough, we can see signs of this physical and spiritual rot settling into a number of our Canadian urban centres with a troubling spill-over into many of our more rural areas.
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
