Oh my gosh, these are sooo funny! I'm from a small town and now go to school in a big city, see I experience all these things every day. Here's some I thought of:

small town: you go to a school where all the teachers are former students who went to college in a small town near by and came back and married other former students that are now teachers.

small town: the parents of your teachers are teachers at your school, too

(both were the case in my high school. soon everyone back home will all be related:eek: )

big city: you have teachers that aren't even from this country

Small Town: even professional men have nicknames like "Booter" and "Boy".

The fact that everyone appears to be related to each other is explained by "Our family trees don't exactly branch aroun' here."

Re: You know you are from a Large/Small town if...
 

I say this almost everyday!!!:D

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big city (NYC greatest in the world!)
You are fresh air fund kids.
Driving is a stupid idea.
There is a starbucks on every corner but thank God no Walmart within the 5 boroughs.
Connecticutt is the country.
You can get anything (and I mean anything) delivered to your door in 20 minutes with just one phone call.
A beer costs 6 dollars.
Parents begin to prep there children for admission to the best kindergardens before birth.
Young mothers gulp down 6 dollar lattes and complain about the difficulty in getting junior into the best kindergarden while the nanny does the dirty work.
Who needs the stars when you have the Manhattan skyline.

Oh My God!
 

These are so true of small towns! I'm currently living in a small/college town and a lot of what's been written is soooo true!

1. When I give directions, I have to say, "It's about 5-6 hours north of San Francisco."
2. We do have a town square and it is a very popular hang out (especially for the hippies and homeless)!
3. We get a police officer to direct traffic when there are more than 4 cars at the stop sign.
4. All the stores in town are mom and pop.
5. People protested when the nearest town/city opened a Starbucks!
6. We have people who live in trees in order to save the life of the tree.
7. The stores DO close earlier in the summer.
8. We have to drive 1hr. to the nearest Walmart!
9. We have 4 bars on the same street (right next to each other).
10. Public transportation (bus) will stop anywhere at your request. If you live on a street that's on its route, the bus driver will drop you off at your front door if you ask nicely :)

There are many more, but I need to go to sleep now (1:15am and I have class at 8am).

Good night everybody!

Ok, I'm showing my small town-ness, but what is a fresh air fund kid?

http://www.freshair.org

The Fresh Air Fund transports underpriviledged city children into the country in the summer so they can experience smelling cow poop, digging worms out of the ground, and just generally the joys of small town life. :D

Its true about the starbucks, there is one on about every corner in DC.

Also big cities you dont neccesarily need a car, you just take public trans.

What sucka about being in a small town is that there is no variety. For example restaurants, bars, and shops/stores.

Re: Oh My God!
 

What's funny is that these are true of Chicago, too. People protested when a Starbucks was opening in the Wicker Park neighborhood, and I don't know of any Walmarts in the city, although I wouldn't even know if there are any.

For five days I stayed in Time Square in NYC for the U.S. Open over the Labor Day weekend. My observations:
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Big city: The constant noise day and night from cars, sirens, horns, and construction gave me a headache.

Small town: Sit outside at night and be able to hear a truck driving down a highway 2 miles away.
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Big city: Everyone has to be 'trendy' and is a clone of one another wearing all black clothes in the evening. (I thought someone died.)

Small town: If someone didn't die and you are dressed in black everyone will comment that you must think a lot of Johnny Cash.

Small town in the south during the summer: If you dress all in black and go outside in the daytime you will burst into flames.
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Big city: Phoney, plastic people.

Small town: Real down to earth honest people.
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Big city: Try to help a lady with a large/heavy suitcase put it in the trunk of a cab and you get a look like you are from another planet.

Small town: Help a lady put something heavy in the back of her car and you get a 'Thank you.'
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Big city: Give up your seat on a subway to an older woman and someone else will try to steal it.

Small town: What's a subway?
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Big city: You see people walking down the street talking or yelling at someone that isn't there yet not saying anything to the people who are there.

Small town: People walk down the street and pleasantly greet people who are there and say nothing to people who aren't.
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Big city: Paying $4 for a can of Diet Coke in the mini bar.

Small town: Paying .50 for a can of Diet Coke in a vending machine, .35 if it is in front of a Wal-Mart.
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Big city: Having to leave someone to watch the bikes on a tour of Central Park otherwise someone would steal them.

Small town: Leaving your bike unattended without worrying if it will be there when you get back.
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Big city: Can't leave the top down on your convertible because someone will mess with your car.

Small town: Can't leave the top down on your convertible because it might rain or a bird might use the edge of the windshield as a perch, otherwise it is okay.
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Big city: Having two policemen every 50 yards on the sidewalk because bad things would happen if they weren't there.

Small town: Only needing a few policemen for an entire town because bad things don't happen, they are only there to write tickets.
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Big city: Being afraid of the cops catching you if you do something bad.

Small town: Being afraid that your parents will find out if you do something bad.
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Big city: Shop keepers have items in the windows of their stores to get you in, but they don't have any in stock and won't sell you the display itme, so they try to sell you an inferior product at an inflated price.

Small town: Bait and switch is illegal and if a shop keeper does that he loses his business license, gets fined, and might go to jail, but since it is a small town it doesn't happen anyway.
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Big city: The air smells like a combination of automobile exhaust, garbage, vomit, and a sewer.

Small town: The air smells like alfalfa, wheat, trees, grass, or rain depending on where you are, unfortunately it can also smell like cow manure if you are too close to the feed lot.
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Big town: A $50 meal at Tavern on the Green with the worst steak and sevice that I have ever had, served with Ore-Ida shoestring potatos and expensive Diet Coke.

Small town: The $8 meal at the truck stop out on the highway with a good steak, baked potato (loaded), salad, homemade rolls, and unlimited refills on the Diet Coke with great service.
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Big city: Nearly $2 for a gallon of super unleaded.

Small town: $1.40 for a gallon of super unleaded.
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Big city: No Dairy Queen, Sonic, or Braums.

Small town: Your choice Dairy Queen, Sonic, or Braums.
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Big city: Smile and say 'Hi.' to a young lady on the street and get a dirty look or ignored.

Small town: Smile and say 'Howdy.' to a young lady on the street and get a smile and a 'Howdy.' back.
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Big city: The horn on your car will wear out in a short time.

Small town: You don't even know if the horn on your car works until you take it in for your vehicle inspection sticker.
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Big city: Buildings so tall that your ears pop going up the elevator.

Small town: What's an elevator? The buildings are short enough, we use stairs.
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Big city: The bus stops every block.

Small town: The bus stops every 20 miles.
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Big city: No telling what language the person you meet is going to speak.

Small town: Everyone speaks English, it is what we learned in school so as an added bonus everyone understands each other.
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Big city: Lots of people yell.

Small town: Nobody yells, it's rude.
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Jeff-Small town: The air smells like alfalfa, wheat, trees, grass, or rain depending on where you are, unfortunately it can also smell like cow manure if you are too close to the feed lot.

This brought back memories! We only had to worry about the feed lot when there was an east wind!:D

and then you go back to your small town college and always forget that you DON'T have to do it

Not always...As the esteemed Mr. Earp and myself will tell you, in Kansas City Metro Area, you would be SOL without a car....a 20 minute drive from the Plaza to the Stadiums would take probably an hour and a half if trying to use a bus other than on Chiefs gameday. Not to mention the fact that the NASCAR track is opposite of the Stadiums, the amusement park is distant from the Plaza, which a good distance from Union Station/Crown Center (Hallmark's World HQ), all of which is no where near the Sprint World HQ campus.

Does Kansas City count as a big city? ;)