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> 結構、自然の動画とかを 撮っているんですけど そんなに田舎じゃないです

Rough translation: "Even though I shoot nature videos (here), it's not really
that much of a countryside."

I assume 結構 here means something like "often". Is this an unusual way to use
the word?

My dictionary gives these meanings:

  1. good, fine, nice, all right
  2. satisfactory, sufficient, agreeable
  3. pretty well, quite, rather, tolerably, surprisingly

The meaning 3 is close but none of them really fit.
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word-usage
What does 結構 mean as a sentence starter?
This 結構 is not unnatural. The third definition seems closest, but when 結構 is
used adverbially, it has a meaning of both "rather/unexpectedly" and
"often/fairly/well". In other words, it implies the degree/frequency is higher
than one might expect. In this case, how about " _rather_ often" or "quite
often" as a translation?

According to 明鏡国語辞典 第三版:

> ### 結構
>
> 三［副］予想した以上であるさま。極端ではないが、かなりの程度であるさま。  
>  「今度の試験は **結構** いいところまで行くかもしれない」  
>  「輪投げも **結構** 難しいものだ」  
>  「 **結構** 席が空いている」

Similar examples:

  * 結構おいしかったですよ。  
It was rather delicious! / It tasted better than you think.

  * え、結構簡単じゃない？  
Oh, isn't this rather easy?  
(But not "Isn't this very easy?")
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