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

[justamom]

I just remembered-My niece dated a guy from a REALLY small town. He played football, and was in the band. At half time, he had to run in and change into his marching band uniform!!!

LOL! I've never lived in a (very) big city, but my hometown has 400 people and the small town ones are SO right - esp. the one about Don't speed or I'll tell your mother"

More Small Town Ones:

*Your bus ride to high school takes more than an hour

*There is a big to-do whenever a new house is built.

*People wave at you when you're driving down the street.

*You can ask any given person in town where any other given person is at the moment, and they can probably tell you.

[MuAZD]

Small Town:

Knowing you can speed through town because the lone cop car is sitting at the conveniece store

[ADPi~Ally]

I live in a small farming town , population around 350 (high school-230, graduation class-60).
Mine was getting into a car accident, then about an hour later, the "older" townfolks call my grandparnets to see if I was alright.
Also you know EVERYONE. You wave to them on the road, etc. I agree with Ginger, riding the bus took about an hour. Also you learned you don't wanna date the "local" guys, cuz u know where they have been. LOL

[sororitygirl2]

You know you are from a small town if you see everyone you know on a trip to the grocery store.

You know you live in a big city of someone says, "Meet me at the Bennigan's/Old Chicago/Red Robin/Whatever Restaurant" and you have to ask which one because there are like, at least 10 or 12.

[lifesaver]

Big City: Give distance in terms of time: How far is downtown?" "Downtown? About 25 minutes from here."

Small city: Give distance in terms of miles: "Oh, I live about 5 miles outside of town"

Kinda funny, you'd never tell someone you lived 5 miles from campus. Youd say "I live 5 minutes away."

Big city: Not uncommon to hear people speaking a language you dont understand. (or on GC, see Tom Earp. lol, had too.)

Big City: You adjust your life around the traffic. Damn, I was hoping to be outta the office by 4:45 to beat the traffic. Its now 5:30. Might as well stay till 7. I'll be home the same time regardless.

Big City: You know what an "Air Quality Health Alert Day" or an "Ozone Action Day" is. You also see the brown haze and say to yourself, "Whatever, this is nothing. Its been worse."

Big city: You live in the land of 24 hours. 24 Hour grocery stores, 24 hour Home Depot's (those ROCK), 24 hour movie theaters, 24 hour resturaunts, 24 hour dry-cleaners, etc.

Small town: They rol up the sidewalks at 9pm, and the only food to be had is the fried chicken at the 1- 24 hour convience store.

ALSO: In a big city, IF I am running errands, and have to include downtown to pay a bill or something, I can often put 100 miles on the truck. I can remember growing up that 100 miles was the distance roundtrip to the nearest big town.

[ThetaGirl1997]

Wow...I grew up in a small town, went to college in an even smaller town, and now live in a city....all of the things you guys are listing are sooo true!!

I have one for you:

Small town--it takes 5 minutes to get to the movie theater (which invariably only has 4 or 5 screens)
Big city--you think nothing of driving 25 minutes to get to the movie theater across town, just because it has more comfortable seats than the one down the street

[AGDPrincess70]

Originally posted by sororitygirl2
You know you are from a small town if you see everyone you know on a trip to the grocery store.

When my parents first got divorced, my mom said that she didn't have to go to a counselor, because she got all the counseling she wanted every time she went grocery shopping! She knew everybody there!


And btw, this is my 100th post

[prospectiverushee]

Big City: Walmart and Starbucks are in constant competition to see who can build the most buldings in the least amount of time

Big City: There is a Wal-mart and Starbucks on almost every corner

Big City: You complain about how bored you are and there's nothing to do despite the fact that you live close to 6 shopping malls, tons of resturants, a few colleges,sports bars, dance clubs,and that there are serveral pro sports teams in the area

[pbear19]

Small town: A traffic jam is waiting for that large tractor or other piece of farm machinery to move off the road

Small town: Having yourself pictured in a commercial for the local pizza place that airs before every movie at the local theater. (Yep, that's me holding open the door to Pagliai's on the big screen )

Small town: The airport has two commercial flights a day with a plane that has a propeller, and is in the middle of a huge corn field.

[lifesaver]

I got another few:

Big City: You think in terms of Zip Codes. "Where is that? Over in 78249? Oh, ok"

Big City: You move, even if its across the street, and the daymn phone company makes you get a whole new phone number.

Big City: You have to dial (and I hate this one) the area code with the number just to call across the street, because your city has used up all the numbers in your area code, and you now have to have 2 area codes, just for your town.

Big City: You get really pissed if your friends who live just outside of town are too cheap to pay the extra money for a metro phone line.

Small town: You have no idea what a metro phone line is.

[MuAZD]

Originally posted by lifesaver
Big City: You have to dial (and I hate this one) the area code with the number just to call across the street, because your city has used up all the numbers in your area code, and you now have to have 2 area codes, just for your town.

That makes me think of that Simpsons episode-New Springfield and Old Springfield-sooooo funny

[lionlove]

Big City - Pedestrians and other drivers are just obstacles on your path to road supremacy.

Big City - Turn signals are for the weak.

Big City - Double and triple parking are acceptable ways to park

Can you tell I drive in Boston much?

Small town - There's one bagle shop in town that's also the gossip place. Signs for every event in town, lost dogs etc are posted there.

Small town - There is a law that is actually enforced in our town that outlaws colored christmas lights and outlaws painting your house without permission from the historical society.

[lifesaver]

Originally posted by lionlove


Big City - Double and triple parking are acceptable ways to park

hahah. Made me think of another two:

Big City: Yield/Shmield. It says yield. It means merge.

Big City: You can park ANYWHERE as long as you leave your emergency flashers on. Once I was dropping something off at our student union bldg, parked in the drop off/circular drive and put my flashers on, got distracted and then realized I was late for class. Hung out with the brothers for a while. After about 6 hours, went to leave and realized what I had done. Yep, the car was still there, still flashing, with no tickets. Did get lots of teasing, tho, 'cause everyone on campus saw it.

[lilsnakeyk]

Small Town: When you go to high school you get referred to as "Baby Insert-Your-Last Name-Here" by the teachers because they had your mom/dad as students back in the day.

(That one's a true story, happened to me, btw thanks Dad for being such a lousy high school student)

Small Town: The first time you get your period, the entire town knows within 24 hours and calls to congratulate you.

Small town: The speed limit actually means something, especially when you live next door to the police chief

Big City: Speed limits are merely suggestions of how fast one should drive if their is a major catastrophe on the freeway i.e. snowstorm, downpour.

Big City: High school reunions are actually interesting, you find out that the strange guy from apartment 4B went to high school with you.

Small Town: High School reunions are just that: High school all over again, same cliques, same S***.