as in countryside
the open rural area outside of big towns and cities
a former city girl who was still adjusting to life in the boondocks
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Recent Examples of boondocks
Morgan isn’t happy with the change, though Robert makes the best of having to commute daily from the boondocks to Manhattan.
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Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
The experience solidified his hunch that within the next 10 years, the biggest tech companies would come not from Silicon Valley, or even New York or Seattle, but from the boondocks.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
Our run-down apartment in the boondocks of Houston looked better than the view of the tombstones right outside our dilapidated home on wheels.
—Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
There is nothing glamorous about 620 Folsom St., a 99-year-old building in what once was the industrial boondocks of downtown San Francisco.
—John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
There is a unique force in the boondocks of Buenos Aires, Argentina: music producer Bizarrap, a sort of South American Dr. Dre, a hitmaker who has already accustomed its loyal fan base of tens of millions to a weekly smash rap hit.
—Javier Hasse, Forbes, 27 May 2021
The group would occasionally hit balls on a few makeshift holes in the boondocks north of Covington, but the experience was less than satisfying and the linksters desired a real course closer to home.
—Kim Chatelain | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2021
Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Nov. 2022
The experience solidified his hunch that within the next 10 years, the biggest tech companies would come not from Silicon Valley, or even New York or Seattle, but from the boondocks.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 22 Sep. 2022
Our run-down apartment in the boondocks of Houston looked better than the view of the tombstones right outside our dilapidated home on wheels.
—Rachel Desantis, Peoplemag, 16 Sep. 2022
There is nothing glamorous about 620 Folsom St., a 99-year-old building in what once was the industrial boondocks of downtown San Francisco.
—John King, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Sep. 2021
There is a unique force in the boondocks of Buenos Aires, Argentina: music producer Bizarrap, a sort of South American Dr. Dre, a hitmaker who has already accustomed its loyal fan base of tens of millions to a weekly smash rap hit.
—Javier Hasse, Forbes, 27 May 2021
The group would occasionally hit balls on a few makeshift holes in the boondocks north of Covington, but the experience was less than satisfying and the linksters desired a real course closer to home.
—Kim Chatelain | Contributing Writer, NOLA.com, 10 Jan. 2021
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