Brazos County is a tad unique, too.
A person can live in the outskirts of Cawthon, or Edge, and still be rather close to a pair of cities now about 90,000 each, with a number of high-attraction and high-dollar "attractants" about (and afoot).
I lived, for a short while, on the near east side of pre-vitalized downtown Bryan. Many of the ninnyhammers (who have all now decamped to be "Southies") would recoil in horror that I could live in a "dangerous" area like that. "Aren't you afraid of [insert evil doers]?" Nope, they tend to be afraid of me. (Which was much more about not only not having "stuff" but not looking like I had any.)