Small Towns Suck!!!!!
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Small Towns Suck!!!!! Posted on Jan 26 2008 at 6:36pm by I lived in several small towns during my teaching career, and I can tell you those places were pathetic! If a person is a transplant, like I was, then you are treated with suspicion from the beginning. These small town, small minded people are suspicious of anyone that has not grown up within their community. Adults have clicks, just like the kids. I was mobbed and ostracized from the beginning, since I advocated the "evils" of evolution and noncompetitive tolerance and understanding of all people to students that were brainwashed by the small town culture into believing their little town is the world and everything in it should follow "Jesus". Small town people have a difficult time grasping the idea of cooperation in a world community nor in ideas that go beyond the fundamentalist views of Christianity. I'll tell you these small town people don't have a clue about what is happening outside of a twenty mile radius from their insignificant little town. Their pathetic little lives revolves around completive sports, like basketball, and gossiping about people they can never understand. Believe me, if you want to visit hell, while still being alive, move to a small town. 
RE: Small Towns Suck!!!!! Posted on Jan 27 2008 at 7:22pm by wow sounds like you have alot of anger built up! I am sorry to hear that your experience in a small town was that terrible, as you discribed it. I was quite outraged when you said that small town people were pathetic, well i am a small town girl. I can assure you that not all small towns are the same and the people in them are not all alike. I am actually away at college and have realized how lucky I was to grow up in a small town where life isn't so much about the brand of clothing you wear or how much money you make but rather on the kinds of relationships you have with those around you! In my small town there are all kinds of people from different backgrounds but we are there for each other in times of need! That is what is so beautiful about small towns, people actually care about one another! Everyone has a right to there own opinion and I will not chastize you for claiming that small towns suck but since you claim to be so open-minded or think others need to be more open-minded, I will ask you kindly to not assume all small towns suck or are the same! Because when you do you say that the wonderful people in my beloved community are pathetic and MR. you dont even know them so dont make generalizations! Small towns don't suck!!!!! there just not for you!
RE: Small Towns Suck!!!!! Posted on Feb 13 2008 at 6:26pm by Indeed, small towns are not for everybody. But, done right, it can offer a beautiful life. You sound a bit full of yourself and perhaps you were not accepted due to your personality. I grew up in a small town, went to a major university, and now I'm liven the dream in a Los Angeles suburb. My neighborhood appears nice, expensive homes, expensive cars, expensive looking wives, and mexicans mow everyones lawns on Thursdays. Everyone comes home after work and the garage door opens and shuts. No one talks to each other. There is a total disconnect with nature. There is no sense of community whatsoever. So if a cold, materialistic, existance is what your looking for with your enhanced chested, botox and colligen poisened spouse, come on down. Personally, I can't wait to get back to a little piece of heaven I own back in my small town.
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RE: Small Towns Suck!!!!! Posted on Feb 29 2008 at 12:56am by Yes. I am in a small town and they are also stuck ups. They think they know better, them people and I can't wait until I graduate from Beacon College. There is only a small number of smart environmentalists in the college and outside of the town seems so much better. I have all of March and April lastly to go in this town and I am done. -
RE: Small Towns Suck!!!!! Posted on Apr 21 2008 at 2:11am by I have to say that I really agree with roundape. (The poster that started this).
I've moved to a small town and I am a teacher. I am going to move to a bigger, yet conservative city in the midwest as soon as I can! Not a major city, just a city that has at least 200,000 people in it.
I understand why people are suspicious of others AT FIRST. Some that are suspicious after knowing you for a while just have some type of mental issue. However, in a town of less than 1000, it's hard to get to know people and have a good time without a rumor getting started. You feel closed and sometimes just plain trapped.
If Mr. so and so had one glass of wine at so and so this may go around saying that Mr. so and so is a complete drunk.
I think it's okay and great to be in small towns if your not involved in anything politically. For instance, I think contruction, highway department, ect would be okay.
However, I think being a police officer or a school teacher, or anything very political can just be plain hard in very small towns. Everyone knows you and you have to act a certain way or everything can get screwed up. You feel like you really can't be yourself.
I'm not bashing small towns. They can be a wonderful way to raise kids and live life.
However, for some, like me and roundape and someone else, it can be much worse than living in the city.
I don't think that roundape actually meant that small town people are pothetic. However, just try taking a political position in a small town and see how weird some people can get. Some people are great though. I have meant a few people that are fairly close friends.
However, the advantages, in my case, are MUCH less than living in the city.RE: Small Towns Suck!!!!! Posted on Apr 21 2008 at 4:38pm by All I have to say is thank god I am graduating. This small town of Leesburg, in Florida, is changing slowly for the better. I am surprised that there are three churches surrounding this town and that shows much of the description of the people that live here. I am not saying that small towns are bad but they just have to lighten up on the realistic subjects of the world than themselves..... Know more of the physical world than they what they hear in churches all the time. Their favorite station around here is FOX noise (actually news, but doesn't reflect too well) and TNT. I have felt bad for them and most of them as a person doesn't realize the larger picture of environmental awareness.
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