If you don't know what Mayberry is, it's a small fictional southern town that was the setting for The Andy Griffith Show. It's commonly used to describe a "perfect" small town where crime is non-existent, no one locks their doors, and everybody knows everyone (and their business). The streets are clean, the houses are cute and well-kept, and the jail is tiny with only 2 cells (one for women, one for men). Everybody goes to church every Sunday and they judge YOU if you don't go.
That's my hometown- at least that's how it was when I was living there. It was stifling to me. There was a small clique of people who were considered 'elite' in that town. They were the wealthy upper crust- the officials, the owners of the town businesses, the doctors, the lawyers, and all their spouses and kids. 🙄 This is an actual photo of those types, taken in my hometown in 1950-something. It's like a Rockwell painting.
If you weren't one of those people or their descendants, you were nobody. It's still like that, too. One reason I left as soon as I legally could.
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I lived for awhile in what is the supposed real 'Mayberry'. Look up Mount Airy NC. There are still remnants of the lamdmarks still there today, including the jail and the Snappy Lunch. I like small town life, but I also live in the country. I work in the city but I get to go home when it gets too much.
