I'd like to try commuting, but...

[Heifzilla]

If nothing else, you might happen by someone's house and ask if you could leave your car there. Are there no parks, nothing? I think this deserves more investigation. (I always thought of rural as being more free, not more controlled!)

There's the big state park across the way, but it closes at dusk and the parking areas are only a mile or so from my house.

Rural doesn't mean more free, I don't think. There are plenty of fields and undeveloped lots but no where to park a car without permission unless you know someone.

Oh, and I did the "walk" where I know the hill is hellish, and it does not look like much at all on google street view. But I get up to 30 mph going down that hill, so I know it's a doozy. But fun to ride...down! Google street view seems to flatten stuff out quite a bit, I think it's the lens they use to get the wide angle view.