How can you tell when you live in a small town

[MaLar]

They put the local Gun Show on the front page of your newspaper.

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[MrWolf]

Nice. I was just told about the Village Trader after being here three years. They have pages of guns for sale. Not really a small town paper but I am from Jersey. Was like a kid in a candy store looking through it.

[LUBEDUDE]

I knew I moved to small town when pictures and stories of car wrecks on the front page of the paper were a regular occurrence.

[Gewehr-Guy]

You live in a small town when they only have a gas station, a grain elevator, and one bar. The other bar burned down 10 years ago.

[Gewehr-Guy]

Everybody also has their own spot to park when we go in for coffee every morning, and everyone leaves their muddy 5-buckles outside the front door

[Idaho45guy]

My town is so small, we don't even have a newspaper. Two bars, three churches, one grocery store, and no stoplights. But we do have a city park with a pool!

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[Idaho Mule]

Potlatch has their gun show in the grade school. Had some folks gonna protest it a couple years ago but there was a strong Idaho State Police showing in Potlatch that day, as well as lots of Latah County Sheriff Deputies. No protests happened, and our County Sheriff had his table as usual. JW

[bob208]

when even the name tells you. I lived near Littlestown pa. for 30 years. they put the second traffic light in 3 years ago.

[Hossfly]

We’re moving up in the world with 4 red lights (with cameras) and a way to bypass all of them. Still experience grid lock though.

[Budzilla 19]

The little town I grew up in, had Longville on one sign coming in and exactly 1,320 feet away it had a second Longville sign !!!!!!!!!! Pointing the other direction, of course!!!!! Hahahaha!!!!!!!!

[Misery-Whip]

Driving thru town any time of week and there are several people actually talking to each other in conversation, waving at others passing by, or they are greeting each other. Or people waiting to cross the street instead of taking my ability to use my brakes and paitence to slow for them.

Not just speedwalking staring at there phone. Being oblivious to the entire world...

[high standard 40]

I have a second home in a very small town and spend half of each month there. I should probably say village. No red lights, only a small handful of stop signs. Some street intersections don't even have stop signs. Many streets are single lane wide. No bars (which suits me), but 3 churches. There is only one commercial establishment. It's a small grocery, bait shop, deli, and gas station combination. Good cheese burgers can be had there. Just about everybody knows everyone by their first name. There is an elementary school. Population is less than 500. This village is 200 miles from my primary residence but I gladly make the drive every month. I have 7 1/2 acres there and hunt deer on that small parcel. I also have a 100 yard handgun silhouette range on my property. Along with one of my cousins, we lease about 900 acres to hunt deer and small game. This lease is a short 2 minute drive from my property. The lease also has a 17 acre lake that we fish for bass and bluegill.

Life is good.

[MT Gianni]

Well Pocatello was the big city when I lived in SE Idaho 35 years ago. The Idaho State Urinal was a decent paper then also.
IMO a small town has to legally be a town not a city in it's charter. Our nearest town is a town, less than 1,000 population and no way would I live in town and put up with its regulations.
high standard 40, Our county has 3 flashing yellow lights and one stop light, with two interstate freeways running through it. Toen of 1000 people and 1500 others in a 15 mile radius has 5 bars, 12 churches, an A&W/KFC, Subway and two other restaurants. A beauty shop that will cut mens hair, two mechanic/tire shops and a grocery store. There is one wal-mart in a 50 mile radius. That is just how I like it.

[Idaho45guy]

Potlatch has their gun show in the grade school. Had some folks gonna protest it a couple years ago but there was a strong Idaho State Police showing in Potlatch that day, as well as lots of Latah County Sheriff Deputies. No protests happened, and our County Sheriff had his table as usual. JW

I bet most of those protesters were from Moscow, my hometown. It's a shame what it's become; the most liberal and leftist town in Idaho. I have to drive there every week and I am amazed at the the level of human debris on display at Winco and Walmart (when I used to shop there).

I love Palouse, but it's in Washington, and Washington has gone crazy with anti-gun laws, so I'll probably be building a house on my dad's 10-acre property out on Hwy 95 within a decade.

How's that old cornbinder coming? My stepdad found a `74 Scout half-cab a couple of years ago he's been fixing up, but he's getting too old for the manual steering and 4spd, so he's going to sell it this summer.

[lightman]

Three traffic lights, three gas stations, less than 3000 people and no bars here. We have a weekly paper but any news will have already been on the grapevine by the time the paper is out. A lot of the citizens still don't lock their doors or cars, which is kind of foolish to me. Its pretty common to see guns in trucks, rubber boots stuck in the crack between the bed and cab and many of us have a dog that rides in the back of the truck.

I've lived and worked here for 30 years. I would much rather be on a dark country road at night than in a big city! My neighbor and I kind of compete to see who gets our trash cans out to the street on trash day and back to the house after they are emptied. Who ever is first gets both of them! If you forget your check book at the grocery store they just tell you to bring a check back after while. The Ladys at the bank call you by name and ask about your Grandkids.

Small towns, yea! Would hate to move back to the citys!

[Gar]

Well I think so far I have everyone beat when it comes to small towns. We have one Post Office (open 4 hrs in the morning), three stop signs and three roads (one being a dead-end).
The general store closed down 40 years and is now a home. No other business except for a couple of work at home welders and tractor mechanics.
Nearest town with stores for groceries, gas, hardware, etc. is 4 1/2 miles away with nothing but farm land in between.

[trapper9260]

You know you live in a small area when you live 4 miles out of town and need to call for the law and it is just the Sheriff department to call and maybe take them 10 to 20 minutes to show up. and you got more dirt roads around you then pave roads.

[trapper9260]

You know you live in a small area when you live 4 miles out of town and need to call for the law and it is just the Sheriff department to call and maybe take them 10 to 20 minutes to show up. and you got more dirt roads around you then pave roads. oh by the way guns show signs are on the main roads where everyone can see them

[cupajoe]

When the town night watchman " Fritz" would ask you to keep an eye on a car he did not recognize. There was usually a burn out contest at the 4 way stop in town on sat. night starting about 9:30. The good ole days.
SALUTE !!!

[wv109323]

I live out in the sticks so far that I have to walk toward town to go hunting.

[MaryB]

Bar, co-op/elevator/gas station, bank, post office... ans if a strange car is in town the cell phone alert system lights up with where it is and who is in it LOL

[Blanket]

elevator, 1 bar, Post office open 4 hours a week, vote at the sheriffs office 14 miles away and not a stoplight in my county

[xs11jack]

My youth was spent in Birkhardt, Wi. Pop. 87 on week ends, and 86 during the week when my dad went to work on the RailRoad.
One bar, one Luthern Church, and a Cloverfarm grocery store. One room school for grades 1-6. To get the rest of the grades we were bused to Hudson 7mi away. You could walk out to the street and see every house in town. Loved the place.
Ole Jack

[jsizemore]

Couple times a week tractors or other farm equipment use the main drag to get around. And the locals don't mind sharing the road.

[quilbilly]

You know its a small town when the big social event of the week is going to the dump and you know everyone there plus you find out whose yard had the most recent bear (or cougar) sighting.

[Thumbcocker]

You know you live in a small town when you lock your car doors to keep people from filling the front seat with zucchini.

[jsizemore]

what's a car door lock?

I bought a 95 Fleetwood. My buddies 7 year old son wanted to know where I was gonna put the deer to bring it home.

[firefly1957]

I would think to call my area a small town but with all the meth heads sexual molesters and crappy court setting them free as fast as possible it might as well be a suburb of Detriot! (because really is it Detroit without a riot) :Fire:

[bob208]

the high school in the town near me now had drive your tractor to school day Friday.

[EDG]

I lived in a small town where half of the girls were my distant relatives.
My ancestors had been there over 100 years and the population was only about 200 plus the farmers even further out in the sticks.

I knew one family I was related to.
Some of my family were related to both the father and the mother so they were double cousins.

I knew another girl who was a distant cousin through my grandmother. Her husband was my distant cousin through my grandfather.

[AABEN]

I am from Snakerun IN there was a feed store groceries store telephone exchange where every one know what was going on are ring was 3 long 2 short one gas pump you had to pump up the gas by hand the glass bulb has marks that read 1 gal up to 5 gal OO we got are mail there I can r ember when we got are electricity and 2 years later we got the phone every one help every one out NOW it is all gone the close town is Fort Branch and they do NOT have a groceries store 2 gas stations 3 places to eat that is where I would like to move back ther again I live in Princeton In 7 miles north to By the way there is sign alone Hy 168 that has Snakerun they are about 3 miles apart OO there are 2 churches alone 168 one still has the old one room school most of the people was from Germany some were Protestant and some were Catholic and all were friends and help every one out it would be good if the world was like that to day

[Idaho Mule]

I bet most of those protesters were from Moscow, my hometown. It's a shame what it's become; the most liberal and leftist town in Idaho. I have to drive there every week and I am amazed at the the level of human debris on display at Winco and Walmart (when I used to shop there).

I love Palouse, but it's in Washington, and Washington has gone crazy with anti-gun laws, so I'll probably be building a house on my dad's 10-acre property out on Hwy 95 within a decade.

How's that old cornbinder coming? My stepdad found a `74 Scout half-cab a couple of years ago he's been fixing up, but he's getting too old for the manual steering and 4spd, so he's going to sell it this summer.

I think most of the protesters were from the Western side of Washington but I am not sure. I'll pm you about Cornbinders. JW

[Dapaki]

General Dollar is our supermarket, the only store selling groceries for 30 miles. 1 gas station, 3 churches, the ATV's out number people 4:1 and you cant park at the bar because the parking-lot is full of ATV's or Snowmobiles. We drive the Polaris 6x6 to church in the summer.

[Idaho45guy]

General Dollar is our supermarket, the only store selling groceries for 30 miles. 1 gas station, 3 churches, the ATV's out number people 4:1 and you cant park at the bar because the parking-lot is full of ATV's or Snowmobiles. We drive the Polaris 6x6 to church in the summer.

I visit a town like that every so often. Elk River, ID. This was the scene from my table last summer at one of two local bars...

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[MaryB]

Took my 70 year old friend grocery shopping today. Picked her up in front of the apartments so no big deal. The snow melt had a small lake in the street in front so I dropped her off at the back door where my truck is never seen. Every apartment window had a face peering out to see who it was LOL

[Idaho45guy]

You know you live in a small town when you lock your car doors to keep people from filling the front seat with zucchini.

Hilarious! I despise zucchini season! I'll take one to make bread, but beyond that, no thanks.

[Murphy]

The lil ole' town I lived in when I turned 14 was so small, if I noticed a cute girl and took a shine to her I had to ask one of the old folks if I might be kin to her or not.

Murphy

[country gent]

When the tallest structure for the Christmas star is the grain bins at the elevator in town. The towns I grew up closest to had one school,2 bars in the city limits, 3 churches 1 garage, 2 gas stations and a grocery store. The closet 2 towns shared a post office 1/2 day each. one had a church fire station and carry out. the other had a hardware store and a community water pump.

Small towns can be very interesting.

[trails4u]

You know you live in a small town when you lock your car doors to keep people from filling the front seat with zucchini.

This is a real thing. Zucchini and yellow squash raids happen here all the time. On a good year, you'll have tomato, cucumber and pepper raids as well. It's quite maddening when you're trying to figure out who to dump your excess on and they beat you to it!!!!!

[Bmi48219]

The town we lived in was so small and remote they had to ship sunlight in by tanker truck once a week.

[Tazlaw]

There is a small community near me named “Toadsuck.” It has a river lock and damn, and one store/gas station/bait shop. We have our annual festival named after it—Toadsuck daze!

[Chad5005]

we live 10 miles out of preston ga,one gas station,one family owned restaurant,one family owned grocery store and no red lights or bars.forgot we got a new dollar general