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re: Small town America is truly depressing
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:47 am to ClemsonKitten
Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:47 am to ClemsonKitten
I am currently moving out of a city to a very small town. You can keep the cities.
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Posted on 10/20/25 at 7:51 am to Powerman
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like the medium sized cities. Between 100K and 400K
I think the smallest I could do is about 40K
Once you get into the really small towns you don't have many amenities.
I'm the opposite. I live about 20 minutes NE of Lafayette in unincorporated country. I can't stand having to come into Lafayette for anything. If telework work wasn't shut down, I'd only go into Lafayette a handful of times per year.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:25 am to ClemsonKitten
I live in a town of around 15k.
We have a big lake. It's pretty to ride by and take pictures. Got plenty of places to eat. Couple bars.. Ppl are super nice. Close to GA. And Florida. Beach is 2 hours ish. Traffic ain't too bad..
Few hours to Atl.. I really like it.
Cities are fun to visit but wouldn't want to live there. To each their own
We have a big lake. It's pretty to ride by and take pictures. Got plenty of places to eat. Couple bars.. Ppl are super nice. Close to GA. And Florida. Beach is 2 hours ish. Traffic ain't too bad..
Few hours to Atl.. I really like it.
Cities are fun to visit but wouldn't want to live there. To each their own
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:29 am to ClemsonKitten
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I’m in Nevada right now haha
Isn't there like 4 cities in Nevada that isn't "small town"? Are you in a county where prostitution is legal?
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:36 am to TigersHuskers
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Live in a town of about 5k. Ill take that over a big city.
If we didn’t have young kids I’d feel the same way but we do live in utopia right now.
Western Springs, IL: Safest and Wealthiest city in the country
Posted on 10/20/25 at 8:37 am to Steadyhands
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Once you get into the really small towns you don't have many amenities.
When you get out of your 20s, you dont "need" nearly as many amenities.
I would hate to be tethered to a massive city simply because of "amenities." Thats not freedom.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:12 am to nugget
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Newport, RI is possibly the greatest summer experience in the country and it’s got 25k full time residents. Water sports, nearby hiking, bars/restaurants galore, history, weather, people, festivals, proximity to other awesome places, and just overall culture make you want to live in a small town. Unfortunately, the Souths version of towns like that don’t exist really at all, minus Florida.
you do understand that for everyone of those...there is a town in the middle of no where upstate new york right?
there are great small towns all over and there are terrible small towns all over. every part of the country.
for the most part, true new England has much better small towns, as does the UP in Michigan, the panhandle of florida, along the coast in the carolinas, the jersey coast, Long island.
there are some great one in Cali, but also some of the worst you will ever see too.
like you said..much of it has to do with what you are near, but even greater influence on it is, is there a way for people to make a good living.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:14 am to RogerTheShrubber
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When you get out of your 20s, you dont "need" nearly as many amenities. I would hate to be tethered to a massive city simply because of "amenities." Thats not freedom.
I’d argue you need the amenities more than ever once you hit your thirties and have kids. Especially if the parents have serious careers.
Townie kids do nothing because there is nothing to do, while city kids have untold amounts of shite to do. Easy access to any and all sports and activity clubs, multifaceted educational opportunities, entertainment experiences that kids never forget.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:17 am to The Third Leg
city kids do those? depends...if you are wealthy sure, but inner city kids arent doing that.
in fact I would say its more suburb kids you are talking about. Which imo is best of both worlds....close enough to things but not the issues that big cities have.
when im talking big cities, im talking major cities in city proper, not metro. think, NYC, Philly, Boston, Baltimore, etc
in fact I would say its more suburb kids you are talking about. Which imo is best of both worlds....close enough to things but not the issues that big cities have.
when im talking big cities, im talking major cities in city proper, not metro. think, NYC, Philly, Boston, Baltimore, etc
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:18 am to The Third Leg
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Townie kids do nothing because there is nothing to do, while city kids have untold amounts of shite to do
"Nothing to do."
the most hyperbolic statement I'll read today. The country is full of things to do, lazy, spoiled children will have nothing to do but normal kids will have days full of adventure.
Most kids are spoiled and lazy, but this wasnt always the case. The need to be constantly entertained has put us on the road to idiocy.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:20 am to The Third Leg
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Good looking people
Educated people
Good restaurants
Good grocery options
Entertainment options
Airports
Uber/lyft/taxi
Kids activities
And job opportunities
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:25 am to TDTOM
quote:Goddam Scandinavians ruin everything they touch.
My elderly neighbor, who owned a pharmacy in Opelousas, pulls no punches when he describes what happened to that town.
It’s like they’re sub-human.
Especially the Finns.
Buffet warned us about them….
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:33 am to GreatLakesTiger24
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Small towns in places like west Tennessee, the rust belt, and west Texas are pretty depressing
Nice small towns in the SE are few and far between. That's not to say you can't live well there under the right circumstances, but usually there is an absence of work, good housing, lots of drug issues, etc.
And when one is rejuvenated, it naturally gets taken over by weekender types and urbanites who arguably ruin a lot of the character over time.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:37 am to Powerman
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Good looking people
Educated people
Good restaurants
Good grocery options Entertainment options
Airports
Uber/lyft/taxi
Kids activities
And job opportunities
And employees who are gracious, grounded, and authentically professional — carrying a perfect mix of warmth and pride. It’s never “no problem” but rather, “I get to make this a great experience.”
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:40 am to ClemsonKitten
Less democrats in small towns. That makes them better.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:42 am to ClemsonKitten
eh it's a preference and that's fine...until you start setting up speed traps and taxing people passing through to subsidize your shite town... then frick you
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:43 am to dgnx6
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Less democrats in small towns
Some kids are lazy and need entertainment.
We always created our own entertainment, kids today are simply lazy and addicted to games/screen time.
If you are bored in a small town or in the country as adult or child, you have no imagination or creativity.
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 9:47 am
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:48 am to The Third Leg
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Kids activities
Kids in cities are having screens shoved in their faces.
As someone who was a kid in Atlanta, plenty of times I complained to my parents there was nothing to do. Because there really is nothing to do as a child in a city.
Some of the most fun was when we left the city. Hunting, fishing, skiing. Going to some small beach town, which is a million times better than overcrowded beach towns.
As kids my brothers and I would go to a YMCA camp that was outside of the city. Do various outdoor activities, archery, horseback riding, watersports. A bus would pick us up in the city and take us out of the city to have fun. Go figure.
This post was edited on 10/20/25 at 9:51 am
Posted on 10/20/25 at 9:55 am to dgnx6
Interestingly, rural kids are much fatter than more urban kids. I think a lot of people have an idealized view of small town/rural living.
If you grow up on some acres in the woods in northern Wisconsin, yeah you have a lot of stuff to do. If you grow up in a modular home on a quarter acre lot off of a 2 lane state highway in the middle of Illinois, it’s a much different story.
If you grow up on some acres in the woods in northern Wisconsin, yeah you have a lot of stuff to do. If you grow up in a modular home on a quarter acre lot off of a 2 lane state highway in the middle of Illinois, it’s a much different story.
Posted on 10/20/25 at 10:09 am to RedlandsTiger
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Population 18,954 (2024)
That's a small town in my book
That's just the incorporated area, right? There is a lot of unincorporated land and nearby new cities like D'Iberville that are essentially from the same area.
Just for a simple measuring stick, OSHS has about 2k kids.
These people are talking about towns with fewer than 2k people, miles away from the interstate....not built around something like Highway 90.
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