Current Events > Are small towns a thing of the past?

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For all the shit cities get, I find small towns unbearable. Things like lack of privacy as everyone knows everyone, boredom, lack of opportunity, and loneliness, and extensive drug addiction not fun. I know cities also have some problems that I just listed but it seems magnified significantly in small towns. Since the world is only getting more and more globalize and more urban, I can't really see a lot of small towns surviving. Am I right or am I wrong? I know a lot of people come from small towns and I know a large majority of them never go back there again.

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wat
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yes every town under 100k has just been sucked into the abyss
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Youre talking about at least a hundred years from now right? Because this is not happening anytime soon.
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Just like racism, small towns are a thing that no longer exists

Small towns will continue to exist, but small town schools will fade into obscurity as districts continue consolidating to save money.
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Not according to Hallmark Channel Christmas movies.
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I live in a small town, and it's very much like TC says. There is also the idea among the residents that their little town is an island in the center of the universe, and that nothing exists outside of the county line. Don't bother trying to get a job here, because you come from somewhere else, so your application goes straight into the trash. And even though the town is rotting, don't dare suggest changing or updating ANYTHING, because liberals or whatever. Keep everything the same forever, as dictated by the five people that run everything that happens here, no matter what it is, they are in charge, and that's final.
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DarthGravid posted...

I live in a small town, and it's very much like TC says. There is also the idea among the residents that their little town is an island in the center of the universe, and that nothing exists outside of the county line. Don't bother trying to get a job here, because you come from somewhere else, so your application goes straight into the trash. And even though the town is rotting, don't dare suggest changing or updating ANYTHING, because liberals or whatever. Keep everything the same forever, as dictated by the five people that run everything that happens here, no matter what it is, they are in charge, and that's final.

Jesus how small are you talking.
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red_is_ash posted...

lack of privacy as everyone knows everyone, boredom, lack of opportunity, and loneliness, and extensive drug addiction not fun

all of this is true

source: grew up in a small town 15km from the next town
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Rural Minnesota has been dying at a rapid pace the past decade. I used to love going up to the small town my grandparents lived at as a child, but it's a remarkably depressing place now. It's fucking heartbreaking.
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lmao wtf is this topic.
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I didn't know every town under 100K suddenly disappeared.
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My hometown has 900 people.

it's still there
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I did read an article that said something like by 2050, 2/3 of the world's population will live in cities
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Butterfiles posted...

yes every town under 100k has just been sucked into the abyss

Can confirm.

Posting from dark inescapable abyss.
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Orthopox12 posted...

DarthGravid posted...

I live in a small town, and it's very much like TC says. There is also the idea among the residents that their little town is an island in the center of the universe, and that nothing exists outside of the county line. Don't bother trying to get a job here, because you come from somewhere else, so your application goes straight into the trash. And even though the town is rotting, don't dare suggest changing or updating ANYTHING, because liberals or whatever. Keep everything the same forever, as dictated by the five people that run everything that happens here, no matter what it is, they are in charge, and that's final.

Jesus how small are you talking.

Fewer than 5,000.
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