There’s a lot of talk about what it is to live in rural BC but what exactly is “rural living”? Well, to anyone who lives in a small town, rural BC, it means a number of different things and to help define what “rural is” we have gathered a few ideas to help you get the idea:

	You call a wrong number and they supply you with the correct one.
	Everyone knows all the news before it's published; they just read the hometown paper to see whether the publisher got it right.
	There's no place to go that you shouldn't.
	You dial a wrong number and talk for 15 minutes anyway
	You can’t walk for exercise because every car that passes you offers you a ride
	You measure distance in hours
	It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.
But what does it mean to be a rural physician?
	You can be canoeing on the lake before your 2 minute drive to the hospital.
	Your idea of "rush hour" is waiting for the three cars ahead of you to make it through the one major intersection in town
	You've had an elderly patient try to "set you up" with their grandchild
	You keep a snow shovel in your car … just in case.
	You've cross-country skied to the hospital.
	Your preceptor wears Birkenstocks in the office.
	Everybody in town knows your name, and you've only been there a week