I am a small town girl that grew up in a town with less than 200 people. You litterally knew every person by name and addressed them by name when seeing them walk by. You were safe no matter where you were, if mom and dad was not near then someone else they knew would watch you. You did not worry about letting your kids go outside to play with out you near them.
We eventually moved north a few hours into a bit of a bigger town. It was still small town life but more people. That town had about 10,000 people when we moved. We still lived in the country but now we had a town close with all the stores we need. There was still a lot of knowing who people were in your town, but more of a oh my stay away from so and so. You knew more names and information that you did faces pretty much. It was an ok town to live in then it went to methville.
After I grew up and moved out of the house I lived an a few other towns. All the places I lived were still small towns and nothing overwhelming to go to. Then a new place hits me....Savannah Georgia. I was thrilled with the idea at first. Warm climate, the ocean, and did I mention the ocean? So I am all for the move. I come to visit to look for housing and was driving around. That is when it hit me! I went into culture shock. It was a HUGE area and that means a true ghetto! I thought we had the ghetto back home in methville, no this was a true lock your doors and get the heck out of there ghetto. I was so scared and nervous and stunned. It just was not something I have ever seen and had to experiance.
We end up find a nice area and a home that we loved and had a fenced in back yard for the kids. We get the house and move it and it is not all that bad. However the constant growl of traffic, and beeping of the cross walks was a change to the normal frogs and crickets I am used to hearing all night.
