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The controversy around Jason Aldean’s “Try that in a Small Town” got me thinking. What are some things that you wish you could do in a small town that you just can’t?

I was in the mountains, Hendersonville NC I think, trying to find a place to eat after 7 pm on a week day. Was impossible.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can we define a small town? The ones in his video have populations of around 150k which I would argue isn't a small town. That's a little over the combined population of seven counties were I live or about 165% of the combined population of all 11 "major cities" in the Eastern Kentucky Coalfields. I say anything much over 10k in population doesn't qualify as a small town.

[–] postmateDumbass 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Small town should be <10k and not part of urban sprawl

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be nice if it were that simple, but a lot of "small towns" have a few tens of thousands of people but are located in a sprawling, rural area.

[–] postmateDumbass 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, suburbs are towns surrounding cities. It's not a suburb if there is no city around.

[–] postmateDumbass 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sprawl is a city term in my experience.

New York is vertical. 5 bouroughs, one city.

Los Angeles is sprawl. Hundreds of "little" cities in Los Angeles County that all combine to 'make' L.A.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When people think of sprawl, yes, they think of urban sprawl. But semi-rural towns can sprawl quite a lot, I assure you. Go drive through Oregon and you will see.

[–] postmateDumbass 1 points 1 year ago

Been a while, but Los Angeles is orders of magnitude different.

Imagine if the area between Salem, Eugene, and the coast was all strip mall, subdivisions, gated communities, golf cousres, malls, city parks, freeways, etc.

That is urban sprawl.

And the San Diego version is only 40 miles away.

[–] Capricorny90210 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My hometown had a population of 120. My current town is around 800. Anything bigger might as well be a city to me lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you have any stop lights? I had some friends I met in college who had come from a town that didn't have any stoplights, and they sure struggled.

[–] Capricorny90210 2 points 1 year ago

Neither town had stoplights, but all the shopping was done in a town that did, so we didn't struggle too much.