With every place that a person can live, there are advantages and disadvantages of all kinds. And so it is with a small town in a valley nestled into the Rockie Mountains. I can't give an accurate number on the population of my town, but our high school is host to a record-low of 180 students. Hopefully that will give you an idea of just how small my town it.
Pros:
-You know everyone and everyone knows you. There is no need to worry about name-misspellings and the like. Everyone waves as they pass in cars.
-If you want to do a sport or club, you can, regardless of your skill-level. There aren't enough people trying out to be cut.
-Beautiful landscape is everywhere. We are surrounded by mountains on all sides. My house is within walking distance of the bottom of the mountains to the east. Currantly, a thick blanket of clouds is obscuring the top of the mountains. It truely is breath-taking. My house is on a piece of land about an acre big, surrounded by fields on all sides. We have so many trees. Our backyard is like a fictional fairytale land.
Cons:
-Want to order pizza or takeout? Get the sudden urge to go to a movie? Love to go shopping at the mall? Ha! Too bad! These, and many other things, are not availble to us small-towners. You have to drive half an hour, an hour, even as much as three hours to get to something you want or need.
-Everybody knows everything about you. Seriously. No joke
-It is so quiet. Our nearest neighbor is about a mile away. It kind of creeps me out.
-It is my perspective that people in my small town tend to be racist, judgmental, and ignorant. We are in a sheltered bubble, and they don't realize that other people have opinions and you cannot say certain things, because they might offend other people.
Really, though, a small, rural town isn't too bad to live in. I am more of a city person myself, but to each their own.
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