Small Town

[clayton86]

Who else here is from a small town? I've just been thinking lately about everything I've done and places I've been so far and how I'm glad I came from the sticks. My home town is a ink spill on some map where the cows out number the people 10:1 lol. My graduating class in 2005 was a mere 47 people this years I just read was 32 I believe.

Small towns seem to have a death grip on most in that people seldom leave lol. I went to college out of state but came back home afterwards as did my younger sister. I have noticed lately it seems as if most the people from my home town or area are all leaving for Texas I'm hoping to make the move also eventually.

Who else is born and raised in small towns miles from no where. I'm 20 minutes from the nearest fast food joint and 30 from a Walmart.

[*Hootie]

I was born in a coal mining camp. Fonde Ky, bet you never heard of that. My Dad was a coal miner. The little community is barely there now. The last time I was there was about twenty years ago. Just did a drive thru just to see how much it had changed. In its heyday it had one store, one gas station, one post office and one doctor.

[clayton86]

Lyndonville is the same one store no traffic lights one doc one gas station but 2 bars lol it's a drinking town with a farming problem as many put it.

[tipptruck1]

When I went to high school in Iowa. There was nly 300 kids in the whole school system k-12. Many of the teams we played football against. Are now 7man teams. That is how munch in the sticks I was. As munch as I hate my current city. No way in heck would I ever move back to Iowa. I hated that small town. Plus every one was related. I swear to got I was the only one that heard the banjo music.You would also figure with me being related to no one. That that would be a advantage to me with the woman. No such luck.

[Tony L.]

I grew up on a farm, and the nearest population was indeed a small town. Just a single flashing yellow light. Wouldn't trade it for the world. Moved away for college and then to a big city for graduate school and i can say that it does indeed call you back home.

Now, I am working a job that allows me to travel around and serve disabled individuals living in the rural areas of the counties surrounding the one I was raised in. I was very much pulled right back in, and that is fine by me.

[clayton86]

I grew up on a farm, and the nearest population was indeed a small town. Just a single flashing yellow light. Wouldn't trade it for the world. Moved away for college and then to a big city for graduate school and i can say that it does indeed call you back home.

Now, I am working a job that allows me to travel around and serve disabled individuals living in the rural areas of the counties surrounding the one I was raised in. I was very much pulled right back in, and that is fine by me.

I went to college outside of Hartford, CT absolutely hated it. I used to get so excited driving home on a weekend and smelling cow **** when getting close to home lol. Even now I smell manure being spread and it brings back memories of living in a city and how much I missed the country.

[plumworm]

The town I grew up in the UP of Michigan is having their 50th class reunion, 47 students and 2 still live in the town. 12 are dead ( Viet Nam 7) and the rest are so scattered around the country that they don't even know how to get "home" The nearest airport is 100+ miles away.

[speed craw]

Where I grew up it was a decent sized town , but everyone knew almost everybody . So good luck on doing something you weren't supposed to cause come sunday morning peoples  ears were burning .