Almost heaven, West Virginia
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River
Life is old there, older than the trees
Younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze
Country roads, take me home
to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads.
to the place I belong
West Virginia, mountain mama
Take me home, country roads.
— "Country Roads", John Denver
This is an index for all tropes related to the rural countryside.
Compare to Deep South, Small Towns, and Sweet Home Alabama.
Tropes:
- Agri World: A planet or world dedicated solely to growing food.
- Arcadia: An idealistic pre-modern countryside setting where residents enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
- Call to Agriculture: Powerful figures retiring on farms.
- The City vs. the Country: Moving from the country to the city or vice versa to show the contrast between the two environments.
- Big Town Boredom: 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.
- Small Town Boredom: Life in a small rural town is boring and uneventful compared to larger urbanized cities.
- City Mouse: Someone from an urban area tries to adjust to rural life.
- Country Mouse: Someone from a rural area tries to adjust to urban life.
- Corny Nebraska: Nebraska is a land of corn farms.
- Country Cousin: A relative who lives in the rural part of the country.
- Determined Homesteader: A person or family who seeks to claim land by improving it through agriculture.
- Developing Nations Lack Cities: Poor countries are stereotyped as being completely rural and lacking any large urbanized cities.
- Down on the Farm: Classic farm settings.
- Dying Town: 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.
- Farm Boy: The Hero hails from a rural farm and receives a Call to Adventure, usually due to a Secret Legacy.
- Farm Episode: The characters go to a farm in the episode.
- Farmer's Daughter: An innocent-looking rural girl.
- Farm Life Sim: Games about the life of a farmer.
- First-Contact Farmer: Aliens meet rural farmers first.
- Flyover Country: Everything between the East and West Coasts in the USA.
- From New York to Nowhere: Relocating from a big city to a small town in the middle of nowhere.
- Half-Witted Hillbilly: A person from the countryside who is backward, ignorant, or outright stupid.
- Hayseed Name: Stereotypical names for hillbillies or country bumpkins.
- Healthy Country Air: Air in rural areas is cleaner and healthier than that in urban areas.
- Hillbilly Horrors: Horror associated with rural areas and the people who live in them.
- Hillbilly Incest: Incest that is associated with poor, rural people.
- Idyllic English Village: An Arcadian and often romanticized rural English settlement.
- Kiddy Coveralls: Kids in the country wear overalls to keep "nicer" clothes clean.
- Overalls and Gingham: People from rural areas wear gingham and/or overalls.
- Pastoral Science Fiction: Science fiction set in the countryside.
- Roadkill for Dinner: Eating an animal you ran over with your car, usually a trait of poorer rural folk.
- Roll in the Hay: Doing the do while lying in a hay barrack in a barn or one in an open field.
- Rough Overalls: People from the country wear overalls, with or without gingham.
- Rural Gangsters: Gangsters from the countryside.
- The Simple Life Is Simple: Farming life being depicted as simple in fiction.
- Small-Town Tyrant: Evil, corrupt rural authority figures.