Debalic wrote:
Country. As opposed to city. You know, like farmland, as opposed to urban area. One of which allows livestock, one of which doesn't. Both of which may exist in the same county.
Living "in county" is not any phrase I've ever heard of.
Most likely because you've never lived below the Mason/Dixon. When I was a kid I knew several people who lived in the county as opposed to the city. There is a metric *** ton of unincorporated land in the South, even around the bigger cities, that a lot of places in the North just don't see.