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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 11, 2019 at 3:24 pm
Personally, I don't care for living an hour away from the closest grocery store. Also, people in the country always say everything is "10 minutes away." The whole "country mile" thing. I remember a friend who lived about an hour outside of the major city I'm closest to, he said after getting the kids ready, going to the store, shopping, getting everything and the kids back into the car and driving back home it was a three hour endeavor. I'm good on that. I live in a suburban area now and am less than 5 minutes from the freeway and about 15 minutes from a big city. I love it - very convenient.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 11, 2019 at 4:01 pm
(May 11, 2019 at 3:24 pm)EgoDeath Wrote: Personally, I don't care for living an hour away from the closest grocery store. Also, people in the country always say everything is "10 minutes away." The whole "country mile" thing. I remember a friend who lived about an hour outside of the major city I'm closest to, he said after getting the kids ready, going to the store, shopping, getting everything and the kids back into the car and driving back home it was a three hour endeavor. I'm good on that. I live in a suburban area now and am less than 5 minutes from the freeway and about 15 minutes from a big city. I love it - very convenient.
I'm an hour from a small city (about 55 000 people) and three hours from a major city (1.6 million). I'm comfortable with both.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 11, 2019 at 4:55 pm
'Burbs here. Northern St. Louis County. Very few buildings over two stories tall, but we're 1/2 hour from downtown, on good roads. Works for us.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 11, 2019 at 7:40 pm
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 11, 2019 at 8:03 pm
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I grew up (6th grade through early 20s) in a small midwestern farming town. Population around 3K. In my travels I don't think I have seen another town so clean. Had bricks and such been left in front of a store anyone passing by would have removed them just for the sake of cleaning up and not to prevent crime, which was nearly non-existent back then.
Since 2006 I have lived in a bedroom community in the Dallas area. When we got here the town was fairly small with pretty clear divisions between nearby towns. Now we have grown to the point where you can't tell where this town ends and the next town west begins. It may be that way soon with the next town to the SW. The demographics are really changing as other nearby towns seem to be getting the high dollar homes...it's still good as our house is at the edge of a subdivision that cannot grow any further and there is no through street due to the train tracks and greenway.
I am about 30 miles from an area of Dallas that is dangerous to wander into for any reason. Areas where there are bars on the windows and a brick laying around would probably be tossed aside as a worthless weapon.
Were we moved here from was a town of 600...period 600 when we moved there in 1992. It's now in the middle of meth hell and totally trashed when it was up and coming in the 90s. Guess it depends on where you are and how things change. The growth in the county changed directions toward the lake and away from where we were.
I feel sure there are good and bad places of all sizes.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 11, 2019 at 11:04 pm
I grew up in a small bible-thumping town. I hated it. After high school, I left. I have lived in the city ever since, and I do not miss the small town life.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 12, 2019 at 6:38 am
(May 11, 2019 at 11:04 pm)Fierce Wrote: I grew up in a small bible-thumping town. I hated it. After high school, I left. I have lived in the city ever since, and I do not miss the small town life.
Alexandra, Indiana, had less than 6,000 people. My graduation from high school was over at 10 pm. I left for the induction center in Indianapolis at 5 am the next day.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 12, 2019 at 9:37 am
One advantage of small towns. everybody knows you.
One disadvantage, everybody knows you.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 12, 2019 at 10:28 am
(May 12, 2019 at 6:38 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (May 11, 2019 at 11:04 pm)Fierce Wrote: I grew up in a small bible-thumping town. I hated it. After high school, I left. I have lived in the city ever since, and I do not miss the small town life.
Alexandra, Indiana, had less than 6,000 people. My graduation from high school was over at 10 pm. I left for the induction center in Indianapolis at 5 am the next day.
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RE: One advantage of small towns.
May 12, 2019 at 10:33 am
(May 12, 2019 at 9:37 am)wyzas Wrote: One advantage of small towns. everybody knows you.
One disadvantage, everybody knows you.
Yeah, we couldn't get away with much in the town where I grew up. There was no need for all the sophisticated surveillance cameras we have now.
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