I love small town life

There's a lot to be said for living and working in a small down. It's the sense of community that doesn't exist in a city. I live in a town of about 40 people, small enough to be tacked on to the next town over (population 1400) for "administrative purposes". It's the kind of place where everyone knows your name, everyone is friendly and there's no drama. The kind of place where, if you hear a car driving up the road you run to the window to see who it is. The kind of place that, when my wife opened her sewing shop, we didn't even bother to hang up a sign. Everyone knew it was there. The town where I run my garage isn't much bigger, but I love that. I know all my customers by name, they send me Christmas cards, stop in just to say hi, and last year when I was down for a couple days with pneumonia they called to ask if I was ok.

I can't imagine living any other way!
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dancingtongue · 80-89, M

the sense of community that doesn't exist in a city

I've lived in both (as well completely remote rural and suburbia). I beg to differ. Large cities/urban areas have neighborhoods, and those neighborhoods very much have a sense of community as well. Not quite as all encompassing as small towns, but then small towns can become suffocating as well with everyone in your business.

Suburbia, otoh, is where it can be very hard to find any sense of neighborliness let alone community because they have been around cars for commuters who are gone all day, from before sunrise to after sunrise in most cases, because of the commute time. All for the kids, whom they seldom see; barely more than the neighbors they only wave to.