City life/Country life

This past Sunday my husband and I were driving through the country side of South Carolina. Do you know there is a big difference between City dwellers and Country dwellers? In most Cities we do not want our names out side of our dwelling. We only put our house address on the door. We try to keep our phone numbers out of the phone book. We put not one but two dead bolts on our doors. We have a bugler alarms in most cases. A lot of us do not even know our neighbors.
Now this is what I noticed about country dwellers. They have the house address on the mail boxes. Not only that a lot of them put the sir name on the front lawn in a variety of ways. Some are neat little signs [the so and S0s live here]. Some are cute [a wagon wheel with the name in metal]. Some are hand lettered signs, etc. If country living is the way it was when I was younger, you know your neighbors, you visit or call them at least once a day. You usually belong to the same church. In most cases the doors are unlocked. Even if the owner is not home, you can, in some cases, find the door unlocked. In other words, I feel the country dwellers feel safer in the communities they live in.
More later. God Bless