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Okay, over the past two years since I've graduated from HS I've lived in three different places.
The first was a major city (Kansas City Metro area), with a population of 1.7 million all told.
Second is Lincoln where I currently go to school - with students it is about 225,000.
The last one was Hutchinson KS: Population of 40,000.
For me I'm a total city kid, and being from a big place I can definately notice differences even in Lincoln, and huge differences in comparison to Hutch.
First thing you'll notice in the smaller town is the lack of diversity in common stuff, like resteraunts. Hutch had a major issue with a lack of really, really High end food and then normal casual dining (like chili's or applebee's). Hutch had one applebee's and one carlos o'kelly's in terms of national chains in that price range and only a handful of other resteraunts that also fit that category. Everything was either fast food or fairly nice, more up-scale places. Can't say this is typical but I wouldn't doubt that you will notice a difference...
Other things that I notice about the move from big major city to smaller, but still fairly good size city is the lack of diversity in more specialty type places...case in point for me is sporting goods stores. There is only one major general sporting goods store, everything else is more specialized. In KC I could go to either Dick's or Galyans and know that I would be able find practically anything I needed that wasn't super specific. In Lincoln, I wanted a pair of gloves and the one store didn't have the right size adn there was no other place to go unless I wanted to spend a lot more money on a nicer pair of gloves...
Other things you will definately notice is that the sidewalks will roll up at 830, maybe 9 on a weekend, and nothing will be open on sunday. That takes a lot to get used to.
Once you get around those inconveiniences(sp?) I'm sure you'll be fine, as long as your motives for moving to such a small place are going to make you happy.
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