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Post subject: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:19 am
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From time to time people who live in the city will remark to me that there must be very little in the way of entertainment living in a small town in rural Alberta but where else can you go and walk into the local Safeway and look in the magazine rack for motorcycle and guitar enthusiast magazines and find one dedicated to chicken farming? Now THAT is entertainment.

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:43 am
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Hi BMW: I divide my time half-and-half between town and country. I must say, in the city they are very short on useful articles about coccidiosis in the magazine rack.

I agree with you, the outback scores over the city in some important ways. 8)

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:46 am
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The first band I was in, our drummer was into horticulture and farming. I always thought it was funny that we'd be learning to play Jumpin Jack Flash and then he'd go outside and take care of the livestock.

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:55 am
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Your town can't be that small if you have a Safeway!

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:13 pm
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Ceri wrote:
Hi BMW: I divide my time half-and-half between town and country. I must say, in the city they are very short on useful articles about coccidiosis in the magazine rack.

I agree with you, the outback scores over the city in some important ways. 8)

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Coccidiosis is a "stealth killer" of goats - don't ask me how I know that. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:15 pm
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Big Cities are cool... but then again, smaller town areas have their moments too.
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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:16 pm
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yodacaster wrote:
Your town can't be that small if you have a Safeway!

The town is small but it serves a large farming community surrounding the town. That's why we have a Safeway and a Walmart. Remember Less Nessman's Hog Report on WKRP? We have something like that on the local radio station here … where they play BOTH kinds of music, Country AND Western.

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:16 pm
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Ahhh I miss the small towns in Alberta. I've lived in a big city before and I'd never do it again.

I live in a reasonable sized town in the Cotswolds and work around in the countryside there, everytime I'm in London on a job I just wish I was back in the Cotswolds, where you can chat to the locals and not spend the day surrounded by people rushing about their business.


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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:34 pm
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Snowjoe wrote:
I live in a reasonable sized town in the Cotswolds and work around in the countryside there, everytime I'm in London on a job I just wish I was back in the Cotswolds, where you can chat to the locals and not spend the day surrounded by people rushing about their business.

Hi Snowjoe: I'm half the week in London, half in rural Devon. To my eyes one of the biggest differences is driving styles. Mostly I adjust automatically as I move between the two places, but once in a while I forget and drive like a selfish, psychotic maniac in the country, or attempt polite consideration in the city. Yikes - neither of those ever work! :shock:


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Coccidiosis is a "stealth killer" of goats - don't ask me how I know that. :wink:

Gnnnn! Now I'm itching to ask! :D

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:44 pm
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Ceri wrote:
Snowjoe wrote:
I live in a reasonable sized town in the Cotswolds and work around in the countryside there, everytime I'm in London on a job I just wish I was back in the Cotswolds, where you can chat to the locals and not spend the day surrounded by people rushing about their business.

Hi Snowjoe: I'm half the week in London, half in rural Devon. To my eyes one of the biggest differences is driving styles. Mostly I adjust automatically as I move between the two places, but once in a while I forget and drive like a selfish, psychotic maniac in the country, or attempt polite consideration in the city. Yikes - neither of those ever work! :shock:


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You're right there! In London you just have to stick the van into the gap, otherwise you will never get anywhere. Back in the country sometimes I've had to reverse half a mile down the road, such is life but that's what you do there. I find the worst country offenders to tend to be city folk there for the long weekend driving their pristine 4x4 however they please.

Not a dig at you of course good sir!


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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 12:53 pm
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Snowjoe wrote:
Not a dig at you of course good sir!

Hee-hee - no worries! :)

I'm a total expert at backing at speed half a mile down a narrow country lane, when faced with a townie in an oncoming vehicle who just gazes at you in horror, unable to cope with reverse gear.

Though it can be a bit of a pain in the tourist season when you sometimes have to do it three times in a row over the same stretch of road, especially when you know they have a passing space about ten yards behind them. :lol:

Snowjoe, I just spent a long weekend on Dartmoor with a city friend. It nearly finished him: hills, rivers, mud, big animals, no street lights, no phone signal. He thought he was lucky to make it out alive. Bwaaahahaha!

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:25 pm
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Another of the other truly remarkable benefits of living in a rural farming area will come to bear in about 5 months or so. In the springtime the farmers will begin spreading manure on the fields. Ah, now that's what I call fresh air. So fresh it leaves a film on your lips.
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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
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Ceri wrote:
Snowjoe wrote:
Not a dig at you of course good sir!

Hee-hee - no worries! :)

I'm a total expert at backing at speed half a mile down a narrow country lane, when faced with a townie in an oncoming vehicle who just gazes at you in horror, unable to cope with reverse gear.

Though it can be a bit of a pain in the tourist season when you sometimes have to do it three times in a row over the same stretch of road, especially when you know they have a passing space about ten yards behind them. :lol:

Snowjoe, I just spent a long weekend on Dartmoor with a city friend. It nearly finished him: hills, rivers, mud, big animals, no street lights, no phone signal. He thought he was lucky to make it out alive. Bwaaahahaha!

Cheers - C


The lack of phone signal is my favourite part, no one can bother me. I often take my guitar to sit in the hills and play after the job is done.

Although I've found the phone signal on London is possibly even worse!

I remember taking my American friend into the country through the lanes, he had lived in inner city New York all his life, the poor guy was petrified!

I've had a good season with the pheasants this year too from the farmers. I've taken out enough with the van too, they just don't move!


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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:49 pm
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I'm a lifelong city dweller, I get confused and disoriented if I'm not surrounded by highrise buildings and pre-stressed concrete.

Also countryside smells funny. Sorry but there it is.

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Well I don't own a Tank so if I leave the suburbs of cville for the city it's only to go to the Inner harbor. Outside that area your safer in Afghanistan.

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