Considering Moving to a Small Town

[Pomorek]

... Forgot to add, completely aside from any "fandom absence problem" the place is just painfully boring. It has none of the advantages of a big city - that is, things going on, interesting places to go or events to attend - neither of a rural setting, that is, closeness to nature and not being surrounded by droves of people. It's very dull, no matter how I look at it.

 

[Saokymo]

If you’re used to eating out a lot or hitting up bars & concerts every weekend for entertainment, then small towns will be very dull and frustrating. Special events tend to be few & far between, and much more “humble” than similar city happenings. The rest of the time you have to make your own entertainment, or keep yourself busy, or learn to appreciate the slow, quiet moments more for what they are.

 

[MagnusLucra]

... Forgot to add, completely aside from any "fandom absence problem" the place is just painfully boring. It has none of the advantages of a big city - that is, things going on, interesting places to go or events to attend - neither of a rural setting, that is, closeness to nature and not being surrounded by droves of people. It's very dull, no matter how I look at it.

Definitely a concern. I think I will miss people and partying the most. Gotta make friends at the local watering hole I guess. Maybe see if there's an ORV club.

If you’re used to eating out a lot or hitting up bars & concerts every weekend for entertainment, then small towns will be very dull and frustrating. Special events tend to be few & far between, and much more “humble” than similar city happenings. The rest of the time you have to make your own entertainment, or keep yourself busy, or learn to appreciate the slow, quiet moments more for what they are.

That was my weekend before 2020 xD But I've learned that I think I like staying home. I think it might be a good idea just to take a weekend trip into town every couple of months to let loose.

 

[Fallowfox]

It's interesting what people consider a small town here.

I would have imagined a small town is smaller than about 2000 for example.

 

[The_biscuits_532]

It's interesting what people consider a small town here.

I would have imagined a small town is smaller than about 2000 for example.

Yeah that's goddamn tiny. Like more comparable to a village.

As I said my town is around 14000. It's the largest in the area (I live in the second sparsest area of Scotland, after the Highlands), but it's still pretty small compared to most towns in the UK. The town I grew up in had 3x the population.

 

[Fallowfox]

Yeah that's goddamn tiny. Like more comparable to a village.

As I said my town is around 14000. It's the largest in the area (I live in the second sparsest area of Scotland, after the Highlands), but it's still pretty small compared to most towns in the UK. The town I grew up in had 3x the population.

I grew up in a town that probably had 5000 people in it when I was born.

Since you mentioned Scotland, I worked with a man who grew up in a hamlet in Aberdeenshire, and when he went to live in Longyearbyen, Norway- population of only 2,300, it was the 'biggest city' he'd even lived in.

 

[Saokymo]

It's interesting what people consider a small town here.

I would have imagined a small town is smaller than about 2000 for example.

I guess it’s all relative?

I currently live in a ~2,000 population town. The main city in our county has ~38,000 people; the entire county has about 136,000 total population... and yet we’re only a 1 1/2 hour drive (about 70 miles) away from the heart of Dallas.

 

[KimberVaile]

This is my town
Watch your step if you come around
I don't think I know you
Well, maybe it's time to show you

This is my home
I'll be standing here alone
And if you're ready to see hell
Come on in and ring the bell

Hello Mr. Hill
Finally you got your hit
Coming from the nowheres
Lying across the clovers

Hello lady slick
Did you pull another trick?
Beautiful makeover
Make the perfect couple
Did you know things don't come easy
So

This is my town
Watch your step if you come around
I don't think I know you
Well, maybe it's time to show you

 

[KimberVaile]

I'm sorry in advance, my urge to post god awful 90's music from Home Alone 3 was too strong.

 

[The_biscuits_532]

I guess it’s all relative?

I currently live in a ~2,000 population town. The main city in our county has ~38,000 people; the entire county has about 136,000 total population... and yet we’re only a 1 1/2 hour drive (about 70 miles) away from the heart of Dallas.

Yeah that'll be why

I'm in the main settlement of mine (as I said, 14000 people). It's just we're pretty sparse. We've got a similar overall population.

My nearest city is the capital, Edinburgh, about an hour by car or train to the North. Other than that it's Newcastle-upon-Tyne over the border about 2 hours southeast.

For University I study in Liverpool, around 6 hours over the border southwest. The district my campus is in has more people than my entire hometown.

 

[Mambi]

I've lived in places with a total population of ~1400 and everyone knew everything about me within a week from gossip alone.

Small is definitely relative!

 

[rufe-squirrel]

Ive been livign in small towns all muy life out of necessity mostly. Except for a few times in my childhood i lived in a city or suburban sprawl.

If u move to a small town, expect not a welcomign environment. they are not very keen on weird lifestlyes or outsidwers who have different viewpoints. they will make their ideas very openly known ans they think the rest of those from urban areas are likely "not the real america". they MAY put up with you a little bit, but if you try and upset their little peckign order they wont forgive that!

I never liked the culture of small towns. on the surface they seem nice and city people, but again if they get to know you and they dont like who you are, they will get angry. I watched one incident where a group of furs did a fursuit parade in this oen small towen on oklahoma and they responsed with a group of guys in a pickup truck attackign the furry camp with paintball guns in the middle of the night. the police didnt do anythign about ti aside write up and incident report.

Taht being said i dotn know how to live in a city anymore. it may be mosre culturally tolerant and exciting but people there dont care for superficial pleasantries and I have no street smarts. Cities are also insane with their crowds and noise, pollution, chaos.. etc. In the country though things are more relaxed and quiet. and if your lucky and have a place to yourself..... you have lots of wide open areas on fields and forests and such with no one around that u can get up to furry fun in ^^ hiking a rarely used forest path in just my boots and socks and a pair of panties ;3 very liberating ^^

 

[Fallowfox]

This is my town
Watch your step if you come around
I don't think I know you
Well, maybe it's time to show you

This is my home
I'll be standing here alone
And if you're ready to see hell
Come on in and ring the bell

Hello Mr. Hill
Finally you got your hit
Coming from the nowheres
Lying across the clovers

Hello lady slick
Did you pull another trick?
Beautiful makeover
Make the perfect couple
Did you know things don't come easy
So

This is my town
Watch your step if you come around
I don't think I know you
Well, maybe it's time to show you

 

[Simo]

I'm sorry in advance, my urge to post god awful 90's music from Home Alone 3 was too strong.

Huh, until now, I had no idea such a thing as "Home Alone 3" existed.

 

[Simo]

Also:

 

[Sam Wamm]

i like towns because they're a mix between urban and rural

 

[ben909]

just make sure you don't get stuck with really crappy internet

 

[sushy]

If I had the option I would do it.

 

[MaelstromEyre]

I live about 30-40 minutes from an actual city. Some suburbs are crawling in our direction but my home is surrounded by farmland. Hayfields, beanfields, cornfields and cow pasture. My closest neighbor is 100 yards away. We don't have a ton of acreage but it's enough to be quiet. The actual "town" I live by isn't much to brag about. There are a couple of gas stations and convenience stores and churches, plus the typical things like police and post office, hardware store. Not much in the way of food. To get to the grocery store takes roughly 15-20 minutes on a state route. Movies and restaurants are about the same. It's a 40 minute commute to and from work, none of it on highways.
It's not so far away that you can't get to a concert or amusement park somewhere in the main city, it's just a longer drive to get there. Even to get to a bus route, you'd have to drive to the nearest park-and-ride. We don't have bus service, even in the nearest town. You may or may not get stuck behind farm machinery. Things are just a bit slower here. You're not likely to find a vibrant artist community, many of the people lean towards conservative political views.
I like it because it's quiet here. I can sit on my back patio in the early evening and listen to a barred owl in the woods at the back of our property.

 

[HarpyFeather]

I've lived only in small towns, save for very very recently where I lived in San Angelo, TX, before moving once again.

The pros are that you pay less for rent, or to buy, that some people will be really nice and know you by name!

The cons are some places have terrible internet, and depending on how deep into rural territory you go there can be severe drug addicts.

 

[TyraWadman]

I've lived only in small towns, save for very very recently where I lived in San Angelo, TX, before moving once again.

The pros are that you pay less for rent, or to buy, that some people will be really nice and know you by name!

The cons are some places have terrible internet, and depending on how deep into rural territory you go there can be severe drug addicts.

I thought drug addicts would be in the city where the drugs are?

 

[ben909]

I thought drug addicts would be in the city where the drugs are?

drugs are everywhere...

 

[O.D.D.]

I thought small towns were overrated until I moved to a city

Now I just realize I don't like most people in doses higher than half a dozen for half an hour

 

[Mambi]

I thought drug addicts would be in the city where the drugs are?

Cities have entire drug units...small towns have just a few cops that are easier to keep track of.

 

[O.D.D.]

Cities have entire drug units...small towns have just a few cops that are easier to keep track of.

Small towns and rural places can also be prime methlab country.