Are you from the big city or a small town?
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Small town And according to a 2010 census under 8,000 people.2
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Small town - approx 2500 ppl - class of like 80 students maybe - live in a bigger place now - about 25k still small but not everyone know me3
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I grew up on a farm outside a small town. My high school grad class had just under 100 people and most were related to each other. Town has grown; it now has three stop lights and two restaurants but still one of the smallest in my state.2
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GymGoddessGoals wrote: »I grew up on a farm outside a small town. My high school grad class had just under 100 people and most were related to each other. Town has grown; it now has three stop lights and two restaurants but still one of the smallest in my state.
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I remember visiting family here in tx coming from ks - and I thought this place was huge 😂 and my grandparents even had MTV it was the best thing to me - we had local cable in my town but only CMT for music channels - some of my friends had satellite and had it but we was too poor for that nonsense2 -
My graduating class had 29. Love the small town life.GymGoddessGoals wrote: »I grew up on a farm outside a small town. My high school grad class had just under 100 people and most were related to each other. Town has grown; it now has three stop lights and two restaurants but still one of the smallest in my state.
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GymGoddessGoals wrote: »I grew up on a farm outside a small town. My high school grad class had just under 100 people and most were related to each other. Town has grown; it now has three stop lights and two restaurants but still one of the smallest in my state.
3 stop lights - anything more than 1 is considered the city -
I remember visiting family here in tx coming from ks - and I thought this place was huge 😂 and my grandparents even had MTV it was the best thing to me - we had local cable in my town but only CMT for music channels - some of my friends had satellite and had it but we was too poor for that nonsense
Well its the county seat so I guess it can be considered a "city". Lol. The entire county all went to the same school. Thus my class being 100 peeps.0 -
IslandGal3 wrote: »Just a small town girl...
Living in a lonely world..2 -
GymGoddessGoals wrote: »GymGoddessGoals wrote: »I grew up on a farm outside a small town. My high school grad class had just under 100 people and most were related to each other. Town has grown; it now has three stop lights and two restaurants but still one of the smallest in my state.
3 stop lights - anything more than 1 is considered the city -
I remember visiting family here in tx coming from ks - and I thought this place was huge 😂 and my grandparents even had MTV it was the best thing to me - we had local cable in my town but only CMT for music channels - some of my friends had satellite and had it but we was too poor for that nonsense
Well its the county seat so I guess it can be considered a "city". Lol. The entire county all went to the same school. Thus my class being 100 peeps.
Ha - my town was the county seat too - we had 5 towns that went to our high school 😂 - we didn’t get the stop light till I had graduated and moved down south - 😂1 -
Small. 1 traffic light. More tractors and combines on the road than trucks.4
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Miss_Chiev0us_ wrote: »IslandGal3 wrote: »Just a small town girl...
Living in a lonely world..
She took the midnight train goin' anywhere3 -
biggest little city0
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Middle, 40,000 + people both where I grew up and town I currently live in is about this size as well.
I love small towns. We bought our house ten years ago with nothing around and it was great, great, great! Now we have a humongous Walmart one mile down the road, the second one in this city and the third within an 8 mile drive. We have 176,537,439 restaurants churches, bakeries, gyms, dry cleaners, and auto parts stores within a two mile range now, too.3 -
Grew up in a place of around 3,500 but there were 5 communities within the zip code. My eight grade class had 14 students and the 7th/8th grades shared a classroom. We had to go to another town for high-school and that graduating class was around 80 kids. I moved to the big city around 18 years ago with a population of 67,000 people. Miss living back at home every. single. day.4
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I kinda grew-up in a small little place down in Southern California that called itself "The City of Angels".
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A charming quaint little place called the South Bronx.....where everything was a playground 😁3 -
Small Town!!!! Recently moved from one small town to a smaller town. We have a school that is it!! 22 mins of dirt road to get to our house!! Love it!!1
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I don't mention this too often online, as many people tend to reach blindly for some sense of personal offence, but yes…. I grew up in a little community called Swastika (Swas-TEE-ka), populated by maybe 1500. There was very little there when I was a kid. I grew up splitting firewood for heat, fetching water from the spring down the road, and emptying the inhouse porta-potty-type-thing every day as there wasn't indoor plumbing until my teens.
The nearest town, Kirkland Lake, was where we went to school and worked. It was a 10 minute drive, or a 1.5hr walk (which I did almost daily). Even at its peak mining days, it couldn't breach the 10,000 person mark.
…….and now you know, lol.
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Deadman_Diggingup wrote: »
I don't mention this too often online, as many people tend to reach blindly for some sense of personal offence, but yes…. I grew up in a little community called Swastika (Swas-TEE-ka), populated by maybe 1500. There was very little there when I was a kid. I grew up splitting firewood for heat, fetching water from the spring down the road, and emptying the inhouse porta-potty-type-thing every day as there wasn't indoor plumbing until my teens.
The nearest town, Kirkland Lake, was where we went to school and worked. It was a 10 minute drive, or a 1.5hr walk (which I did almost daily). Even at its peak mining days, it couldn't breach the 10,000 person mark.
…….and now you know, lol.
I think this is cool man.sounds pretty brutal especially up in Canada, but now i see where you get your manliness! 👍1 -
It was a small city in the 70's and 80's, but grew exponentially based on the further bedroom commuters. Now it's a *kitten* compared to when I grew up. Crime went up tremendously, drugs and gangs are problematic and I only go back because my dad still lives there in the house I grew up in. Once my dad passes (87), there won't be any reason for me to go back and I'm not crying over that.
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Deadman_Diggingup wrote: »
I don't mention this too often online, as many people tend to reach blindly for some sense of personal offence, but yes…. I grew up in a little community called Swastika (Swas-TEE-ka), populated by maybe 1500. There was very little there when I was a kid. I grew up splitting firewood for heat, fetching water from the spring down the road, and emptying the inhouse porta-potty-type-thing every day as there wasn't indoor plumbing until my teens.
The nearest town, Kirkland Lake, was where we went to school and worked. It was a 10 minute drive, or a 1.5hr walk (which I did almost daily). Even at its peak mining days, it couldn't breach the 10,000 person mark.
…….and now you know, lol.
I think this is cool man.sounds pretty brutal especially up in Canada, but now i see where you get your manliness! 👍
Honestly, it wasn't the worst way to live. As I got older, I really learned to appreciate the lessons hard work and self-sufficiency taught me. I'm glad there was nothing handed to me.7 -
I grew up on what I would consider a small town with a population averaging 3500 over the last 50 years. Prior to that I lived in a town of less than 1,000 but I was pretty young and don't remember much of it. Graduated high school with a class size of 98. Couldn't wait to get out and never went back. I now live in the biggest metro area in the state which is still small in comparison to most other states, but it's nice not having everyone know my business. However, am not looking forward to when my kids graduate with their class sizes of over 1K
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I kinda grew up all over, started off in a small town just outside Seattle. Ended up in small town Oklahoma, graduated high school with 75 students. I love visiting bigger cities, but small town living is my jam now. Traffic aint good for the ol' anxiety ya know?3
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Small town, less than 7000 pop. I grew up here and still live a 5 minute walk from my childhood home. It's sad to see all the changes that happen to a place; residential areas are all businesses now, downtown is filled with shuttered windows, you need a bank or to buy a car, easy to do. But try shopping for clothes and choices are almost nil.
My dds attended college in Boston. I regret not visiting them more often but nothing set off my panic attacks as much as driving by myself there. It's crazy.2 -
We had 2 stop signs. Does that qualify as small?3
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NYC... nuff said. 🤷♀️1
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Somewhere in between. When I moved here when I was 12, the metro area population was around 450K...2021 is around 930K. That said, I live in a township/village (Corrales) that is part of what is considered the metro area, with a population of 8,500. A long time ago, it was a farming community, so it has a very rural feel. By village statute, a residence has to be placed on at least 1 acre of land.
When I was a kid I lived in Albuquerque proper and Corrales seemed like it was way out there...most of the ABQ population was on the east side of the river and what is now the city of Rio Rancho was pretty much non-existent. Most of the population growth over the last 35 years has been the west side of ABQ and Rio Rancho has been the fastest growing city in the state for quite awhile now and now all of these different areas considered to be the "metro area" just run together but all have a very different feel to them.
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Grew up in a 900 person town2
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Grew up in a 900 person town
I get it!
Don’t you just cringe when people say I’m from a small town, only 20,000?
That’s the big city!
The counties where I grew up have 5 to 8 towns, and the counties only have 2,000 to 5,000 people.
My kids both graduated in a class of 9. That’s nine. That’s a small school.
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