I come from a "township" with a little tiny town center - with like 4 official business buildings, but a town of about 80,000 was close enough by. There was nothing but farmland around us. I had no little friends down the street, rather i had to get permission to walk a half mile to visit my closest little friend. If we wanted to know what the neighbors were doing we had to get out the field glasses. They did the same to us.
You could walk to the mailbox in your skivvies - and now and then we would cut across the cow pastures and corn fields to get to school, a one-room brick building with eight grades. The teacher was a hundred years older than God and much more ornery. She used to stink up the little bathroom something fierce, then you had to hold it til school let out. It must have been those bananas she ate all the time.
The year i graduated i was the oldest kid in school - and there were 3 kids in my class. You could not even consider me from a small town, i was from a patch of farm.
But that 80,000 people town was where we shopped for stuff. Our house had an outhouse - but eventualy it was filled in.

- i mean with DIRT.
I will never forget my first night in the city - hearing the NOISES in the morning. Wow. that was STRANGE and it was in Minneapolis. I heard Garbage Collectors. We had to haul our garbage to the local dump. And in the morning at home, you would hear the call of pheasants in the distance. Sometimes quite close. And roosters crowing. I miss that. I would love to return to the country life. Or live on Lake Michigan, that is the other choice for me.
this was FUN, thinking back on these things. Good thread, thank you. I will read some more of the posts now.

Now i have read more, and it is interesting to see the number of people from smal towns! Cool! I was so sad to lose my homestead from my township - i wanted to maybe move there with retirement - but of course, the stinking develooper ruuned it. Hey remember ROON. Yuk, Sorry.
I would love to live in Stars Hollow, and actually, there are some very cool small towns in Wisconsin and i am definitely considering looking for one to move to. But it has to be on Lake Michigan. I could even move closer to Green Bay and my beloved PACKERS! Small towners in Wisconsin are quite the hicks mostly. Lots of fishing and hunting. I am really enjoying this thread!
haha yeah I know. Sometimes I wish I could live a place where it's nice all year like that, but I think I'd miss the seasons.
When my brother was in the Navy, he was stationed in Hawaii USA for quite a while. At first he loved it, then we started getting letters. "Oh, it was 3 degrees COOLER today! BIG season change!" He got restless for autum leaves. Then for a while he lived in California, USA - well, he missed the seasons - he moved back to WISCONSIN, USA! If you can believe that. Here he is, fighting the record snow falls, when he had a good job in California.