Subject: What Is Your Town/City Like?
Posted by: AvrilBDT
Date: Jul 18 09
Mine is a small and quiet town, where everybody knows everybody and everybody's buisness. What's yours' like?
Posted by: AvrilBDT
Date: Jul 18 09
Mine is a small and quiet town, where everybody knows everybody and everybody's buisness. What's yours' like?
27 replies. On page 1 of 2 pages. 1 2
meggiepoo
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I'm still getting a feel for San Antonio. Milwaukee (where I lived before) was just like a small town. Everybody knew somebody else that you knew. It just had a lot more people. Reply #1. Jul 18 09, 10:56 AM |
runaway_drive 
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Full of chavs, people with knives, some nice people... err... Full of old people (which is good), full of little kids that scream near garages (which is bad). I'd say average. Reply #2. Jul 18 09, 3:51 PM |
ozfei
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Moving replies from the original post before it was moved to Geography: Czolgolz Small, unassuming, pleasant. Until night, when the morlocks come out for their blood sacrifices. I'd move, but you know how the US real estate market is, these days. Reply #1. Jul 18 09, 10:07 AM Delete - Edit pattycake65 Small town, about 11,000 where everybody knows your name and business. Naturally it has it's good and bad points. Reply #3. Jul 18 09, 10:48 AM Delete - Edit honeybee4 I live in a small, rural community . I live 6 miles from LNAS, home port for the Pacific Fleet's Strike Fighter Jet Aircraft Community. The air station and it's people are very important to Lemoore. Lemoore is 40 miles south of Fresno, Ca. Reply #4. Jul 18 09, 10:53 AM Delete - Edit KATde exactly the same as yours avril. very small, everyone knows everyone. and they all know what i'm doing. hmmm... :P Reply #5. Jul 18 09, 11:00 AM Delete - Edit Reply #3. Jul 18 09, 8:30 PM |
Cymruambyth
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I live in a city of 700,000 people but we often joke and refer to it as the biggest village in the world. We also claim two degrees of separation - if you know two inhabitants, you find you have links to all the rest. Our city is classified as an urban forest - lots of trees and parks, and three rivers with riverside walkways. We're a city of festivals - the Folk Festival attracts visitors from all over North America and other parts of the world, the Festival du Voyageur celebrates our history as the headquarters of the fur trade, the Children's Festival celebrates children, the Music Festival in which local singers and instrumentalists compete for awards and bursaries, the Fringe Festival presents innovative theatre, the Jazz Festival, the New Music Festival showcases new classical music by composers from all over, and Folklorama which celebrates our cultural diversity. We also have a film festival, a comedy festival, and once a year one of our local professional theatres puts on a festival honouring a specific playwright (to date we've had Brechtfest, Albeefest, Millerfest, Shawfest, to name just a few). We're home to four universities, four major colleges, a host of art galleries, a symphony orchestra, a chamber orchestra, a ballet company, a modern dance company, five professional theatres (one of which is devoted to plays for young people), countless amateur drama and dance groups, more choirs than you can shake a stick at, and there are more pipe organs in churches in my city than in any other city in Canada! We also have a professional football team, a professional hockey team and a professional baseball team, and more Olympic speed skaters call our city home than any other city in the world! To top it all off, we're also the Slurpee capital of the world - evidently more slurpees are sold here in the dead of winter than are sold in Detroit at the height of summer! I'm probably the only resident of my city who has never had a slurpee. Do I love my hometown? You betcha - even if we get minus 30 degrees Celsius for weeks on end in winter, and we're eaten alive by mosquitoes all summer. Reply #4. Jul 18 09, 9:15 PM |
romeomikegolf
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I live in a small town/large village on the edge of the Cotswolds.There is a very real sense of community here. If people you know haven't seen you around for a while they ask how you are and why you haven't been around. I can't imagine living anywhere else. Reply #5. Jul 18 09, 11:41 PM |
C30
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Typical prominently Victorian built Coastal resort, population around 100,000. Town in present form dates to 1792, although a settlement of some form present back to Viking times (8-10th Century AD). However, I originate from the oldest recorded town in England, dates back to around 50BC and was original Roman Capital of the country. Current population around 150,000. Reply #6. Jul 19 09, 2:11 AM |
tezza1551
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Luckily I live 30km from the two nearest towns and 35 from the town where I work. My nearest neighbour is about 5 km away, and thats quite close enough thanks. My father used to say about living in a small town.."if you went to your bedroom at midnight, shut the door, pulled the curtains and sneezed, by 6 am next day someone would be phoning to ask how your cold was ". And my sister sent me a plaque that says "the best thing about living in a small town is that if you don't know what you are doing, someone else does ". Reply #7. Aug 13 09, 8:36 AM |
Pejikr
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My town is suburban, and everybody doesn't know everybody. Reply #8. Aug 25 09, 9:07 AM |
cag1970
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I grew up in a small town, but thankfully I now live in a big city - Charlotte, North Carolina - where everyone doesn't know your business. It's been said that Charlotte has more cars per capita than any other city in the United States except Los Angeles, and I'm firmly convinced that I'm the only person in town who knows how to properly drive one. Reply #9. Sep 10 09, 8:38 PM |
wayman71
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I live in a village of just a few hundred people. When the weather is nice folks get around on golf carts or tractors. There is no mail delivery - you have to pick it up at the post office. No police force other than the sheriff that lives down the street from me. 20 miles to the nearest Walmart, nothing but cornfields in between. Reply #10. Sep 10 09, 9:30 PM |
wildmatz
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My town has about 300.000 inhabitants, but apart from the centre, it doesn't really feel that big, as most people live in parts that used to be independent villages before the town was formed and have kept some of their character. My part of town, for example, is over 1200 years old, while the town itself was just founded some 300 years ago. We've got quite a lot of parks and green, and interestingly the streets in the centre form a fan, with our castle at its central point. I think my town's just right for me. I don't live in a busy and noisy part, but I can benefit from what the town offers regarding culture, shopping and dining. Reply #11. Sep 13 09, 12:39 PM |
7PinKy7
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I guess I live in a small town or city. I live in La Crosse, WI pop. 52,000. It is the biggest city within about 75-100 miles. It is along the Mississippi river. Reply #12. Sep 15 09, 11:31 PM |
| wayman71
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Wow. 52,000? 300,000? 700,000? I can't even imagine those amounts of people in one area. I spent over 30 years living in a city of 16,000 and thought that was hectic. I'm very content where I am now with 600 people over .6 square miles. Reply #13. Sep 15 09, 11:53 PM |
cowdom
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I think we hit 1,000,000 a year or so ago, but even with that, it has a small town feel. It is surprising how you know someone, and they know someone else you know, and on it goes. Reply #14. Sep 16 09, 10:27 PM |
daver852
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Just moved here four months ago, so I'm still getting used to my new hometown. Population: about 110,000, which seems like a big city to me, after living in a town of 8500 for twenty years. I live just a block from the park, on a very quiet street. One thing I don't like about this town is the large number of one-way streets, and how spread out everything is. Good points are shopping, a nice downtown area, and being able to hop on the train and be in St. Louis or Chicago in a couple of hours without having to drive. Reply #15. Sep 17 09, 12:56 AM |
Jaly
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I live in a town of about 11,000... have lived here all my life ... wouldn't live anywhere else... we have what we need here and the city is 25 miles away so close enough to go when needed! and yes everyone knows everyone...lol Reply #16. Sep 17 09, 6:09 AM |
| sherry75
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We live in a small town/large village on the edge of the Shropshire hills, close to the Welsh borders (Marches) there is a very real sense of community here too RMG. With good local rail links into England's second city (Birmingham), low population = good medical care, education, low traffic... pretty much perfect, just wish it were closer to the sea. Reply #17. Sep 17 09, 6:39 AM |
LadyStar
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Carlsbad, New Mexico is small and full of retirees. And there is no good shopping here except for Wal-Mart. Hence, everyone goes to out of town places, including Texas, to get some shopping variety. Reply #18. Sep 17 09, 8:00 AM |
| Cymruambyth
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Sherry, nowhere in England is more than 113km from the sea. I'm 2272km east of the Pacific, 3241km from the Atlantic, and almost 1500km from the Hudson Bay, which is that really big bay in the Arctic. I'd have to travel for days by car or train, and several hours by plane to dip my toes in the briny. Count your blessings! Reply #19. Sep 30 09, 5:37 PM |
dsimpy
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Ireland. Belfast. What else needs to be said. Amazing. Reply #20. Oct 01 09, 5:04 AM |
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