City Drivers - at night

[cqaigy2]

Just because a drive is unfamiliar with a section of road, doesn't mean they are from the city. I probably live more remote than most TBNers, i tell people visiting for the first time, 'if you think you've gone too far into the sticks, you're half way here', so not exactly a "city" person. Not surprisingly, i'll sometimes end up on a secondary road, i've never driven before and proceed with caution, especially at night. Now the roads around where it live, i bet most of you would driving the speed limit, of 35MPH or less. It's winding narrow, dips up and down, rock on one side and a nice drop off on the other and if it's been raining, water across the road. The people that live in the area, myself included, usually drive much faster.

 

[PILOON]

On the country road I've been describing there is a quite hilly stretch that has multiple turns.
At the top of that hill the owner has 'planted' HD posts to protect his property.*
Couple years back a car literally flew up that hill, took off missing the posts and landed into the owner's garage that was set back about 15 ft or so.
That car punched a large hole into the side wall and weakened the roof structure.
To have soared as far as he did he must have exceeded 100mph.

* I know that owner and gather that he's had more than a dozen of those unwanted visitors over time.

The problem with this nice rural area is that we are but 1 hour north of Montreal and folks wanting the rural life style all while enjoying the big city income advantages are always in a hurry to get there and back B4 they have left.
The stretch of rural road I've described actually has some 8-9 small lakes making the area highly desirable.
During this COVID period every property listing, some 15-20, sell within 10 days or so and prices have gone wild.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Having been born and raised in country, and learned to drive in the country, it seems to me that (a) locals who know the roads will drive a lot faster than visitors; I saw it in my area, and when we visited N.E. Oklahoma, where the roads are curvy, narrow and quite rocky, I drove very cautiously, only to be blown off the road by the locals.