Years ago I used to write a lot more frequently on cars, and have pushed Aston Martins over 180mph on their test track in England, driven Land Rovers off-road across Utah and the Scottish Highlands, ripped a Panoz Esperante through the rural Georgia countryside, and slid more pedestrian models around icy tracks in Colorado.
The Council for the Protection of Rural England, a countryside charity indifferent to hunting, is staying away.
They have declared that holders of rural hukou in the countryside surrounding these cities can move into urban areas and enjoy the same welfare benefits as their urban counterparts without giving up their land entitlements.
She said they were aimed at "providing support for the rural sector to enable them to safeguard the island's countryside and biodiversity and improve rural business efficiency and profitability".
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New Labour saw the countryside as a "rural version of the Dome rather than a real place where real people work and live" he added.
The countryside and the economy of rural areas are no longer isolated from the wider economy.
Countryside Alliance, which champions rural sports, said it was disappointed with the outcome.
The Countryside Enhancement Scheme and the Rural Initiative Scheme are part of the States of Jersey's Rural Economy Strategy for 2011-2015.
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The Countryside Alliance, which champions rural sports, last year promised to challenge the legislation as it made its way through the assembly.
In 1920, when the census revealed big shifts from the countryside to the cities, rural politicians refused to reapportion seats in Congress to reflect the census results.
Ex-poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion said "townies in the countryside" were "gutting" rural communities.
The European Union is strongly moving towards rural development as a major policy for the countryside and agriculture.
The rural white paper will encourage employment in the countryside.
The UN blames the massive migrations from rural areas either on population growth that the countryside cannot sustain or on economic prescriptions said to emphasize commercial agriculture over small farming, thus driving the poor off the land.
But none of these policies will change the fundamental cause of inequality between rural and urban areas: massive underemployment in the countryside.
Tony Burton of the Council for the Protection of Rural England calculates that England is losing an area of countryside about the size of Bristol every year to development.
The Countryside Alliance says plans to bring fast broadband to rural areas have stalled.
We have balanced the need to protect the countryside from unnecessary or inappropriate development, while supporting rural communities.
There is huge potential for higher consumption in the countryside as incomes rise: only 30% of rural households have a refrigerator, for example, compared with virtually all urban households.
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During the programme, Charles - who set up the Prince's Countryside Fund in 2010 to raise cash to support countryside communities - is shown visiting some of his rural initiatives as well as a south London school which has seen improved exam results after helping pupils to grow their own vegetables.
He called for rural diversification to contribute to "the character and tranquillity of the countryside".
The central government has been trying to help, introducing a rural pension scheme that is due to cover the whole of the countryside by 2020.
The Countryside Alliance has estimated this would cost 16, 000 rural jobs.
However, it also suggests that such convergence can be expected to take place over many decades and, in the short run, enhanced rural-urban migration might even widen the income divide between the countryside and cities.
It's the difference between the idealised rural England (slivers of tour-bus Oxfordshire) and the real countryside of bungalow-sprawl, derelict factory units, impromptu rubbish tips in woodland glades, sinister hamburger-tossers in laybys, empurpled stand-offs over travellers' sites and local people who find themselves stranded by everyone from bus companies to banks.
We are also ending the uncertainty about development in the countryside and providing the planning policy context for deciding planning applications in rural areas.
The report highlights in particular the increasing phenomenon of migration from rural to urban areas, often as a result of drought or flooding in the countryside.
Alice Barnard from the Countryside Alliance urged the government to "urgently review" the rental market in rural areas.
He said a healthy economy was vital to "the survival of attractive, ordinary countryside, but as farmers diversify, it is crucial that new businesses enhance their rural setting and help sustain the management of the land".
Land reform might help ease tensions in the countryside, but the government does not have the cash to turn many of the landless rural poor into smallholders.
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