small town vs big city

[Mott the Hoople]

Yea my experience is that unless you were born and raised there small towns are not a lot of fun. It's not so much because of the life style. Nothing wrong with that, just the way you get treated as an outsider. So if they feel that way about their own people from different towns or cities imagine what like can be life for a foreigner in small town America. It's not that you can't assimilate. It's that often the locals won't let you. That is, even if you do try to assimilate they won't accept you as part of the community.

I know a lot of friends where I grew up (Coldwater, OH, population 4,400) who had a similar experience that I had. Went off to college and came back and were branded as heretics. Couldn't find work locally after graduation so moved to urban area to find work. Went back home and found out we were lepers who were no longer welcome back home. We had sinned. We had seen the outside world and actually liked it. I definitely harbor a lot of resentments towards the small town where I graduated from high school. The religious discrimination I put up with there turned me off of religion for life. Small town social cliques of dirt farmers who had been inbreeding for 10 generations would look down their nose at you cause you weren't from one of the dirt farming families. The notion that they have these magical superior values cause of the accident of being born in a small town. Never have figured out how being born and raised in a small town magically gives someone superior values to someone who wasn't.

[USFREEDOM911]

socal in he 1960 and 70s


Urban sprawl

so many people don't understand what socal is really like.


you want horse country with ranches and fields of grass...we got em


you want big city fast pace....we got em



you want beach town with piers and surfers.....we got em


you wan mountain life with hillbilly hippies....we got em


you want long loney deserts with whispering winds in your ears......we got em



you want hollywood glitz....we got em

You want psychotic, crack addicted, landlords...we got em

ftfy