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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:33 pm
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Matt, I like both. Each has advantages. A condo at Marina Towers, and, a place out in the country. :D

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:55 pm
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Matt, I like both. Each has advantages. A condo at Marina Towers, and, a place out in the country. :D

SBLS you know what hoods to stay away from in Chicago I'm sure! :?

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:18 pm
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After a 2.5 year stint in a small town in southeastern Oklahoma, I returned to find my formerly quaint and small hometown just south of Fort Worth, Texas had grown at an outrageous pace. The traffic, the stores, the homes--everything is bigger, faster and more crammed together.

Oh well, at least I'm home.

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:25 pm
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Screamin' Armadillo wrote:
After a 2.5 year stint in a small town in southeastern Oklahoma, I returned to find my formerly quaint and small hometown just south of Fort Worth, Texas had grown at an outrageous pace. The traffic, the stores, the homes--everything is bigger, faster and more crammed together.

Oh well, at least I'm home.

Takes my Wife over an hour to drive 16 miles home from work. The area between Washington and Baltimore is like traffic central.

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:46 pm
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Screamin' Armadillo wrote:
After a 2.5 year stint in a small town in southeastern Oklahoma, I returned to find my formerly quaint and small hometown just south of Fort Worth, Texas had grown at an outrageous pace. The traffic, the stores, the homes--everything is bigger, faster and more crammed together.

The traffic is faster?

I remember open roads. Vaguely.


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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:14 pm
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I see nobody has any comment about the chicken farming magazine. I would have thought that might get a snicker or two. It certainly made me chuckle when I saw it in the store.

About traffic, I have often noticed that everything I do in my little town is faster. If I have 6 or 7 things to do on a Saturday I can get them all done in 2 or 3 hours instead of 7 or 8 like it took me to run the same kinds of errands when I lived in the city. Less traffic, fewer stop lights, less distance between places, finding parking spots much closer to the door, shorter line-ups or wait times once there.

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:25 pm
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"chicken farming magazine", that is what I forgot :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:29 pm
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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 10:34 pm
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GilgaFrank wrote:
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.


+1 !!

Lived in major cities (around the world) all my life.

My Sis-in-law lives in the 'country' and everytime we visit it just feels weird, and it's always so quiet that I can never get any sleep.

After living for 12 years in downtown Chicago, the first 6 mos. in Minneapolis required that I leave the radio on loud so that I could sleep... and that's on one of the final approaches to the Int'l. airport <2 mi. away. :shock:

I think rural life is great for those who appreciate it. But if I don't have concrete under my feet at least once a day, I get a Rash !! :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 11:53 pm
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I spent a great deal of my childhood in a very, very small town, and I couldn't wait to get out of it, because there was nothing to do. Now, I dream of going back, because.....there is nothing to do. No noise from planes, interstates, crowds, neighbors that are too close, no hustle and bustle, no traffic jams, fresh food that can't be beat, crickets singing you to sleep, early to bed and early to rise, .....ahhhh, the good life, that's good for the soul and longevity. 8)

Whenever I go to visit what I call my home town, it takes a day or so to decompress and enjoy the relaxation. When I come back to the big city, I can go from zero to pissed-off in no time flat. :(

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:08 am
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When I'm in the country they look like this!

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I know what I prefer :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:16 am
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BMW-KTM wrote:
I see nobody has any comment about the chicken farming magazine.

Hi again BMW: the magazine was commented on in the first and fourth replies on the thread. I'm still curious about how Mike knows about coccidiosis in goats. Maybe he found a goat magazine amongst the bike section at his local seller?

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:42 am
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One of the things I like best about living in rual Oklahoma......
.....I can step outside and scratch where it itches without worrying about others watching.... :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:20 am
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I grew up in rural Iowa, outside the town I live in now, which has a population of about 150,000 or big enough to accommodate three Wal-Marts. For most of thirty years after that, I lived in very rural northern Minnesota, where the third largest county had about 1/3 the population of the town I live in now.

For two years I lived in Mansfield Texas, which is scrunched between Dallas, Fort Worth and Arlington. 6,000,000+ people in a smallish area where it seemed people were killed almost every week trying to rescue mattresses off the interstates - not kidding. Living there, I definitely felt the Crush of Humanity.

When I left Texas I knew I couldn't go back to the empty wilds of northern Minnesota, but neither could I bear the relentless pressure of a huge city. With the wife's parents ailing, we returned to our hometown and here we are still, 12 years later.

Two other points. One, this town recently passed an ordinance allowing chicken farming within the city limits - up to six chickens, but NO roosters. Two, the thing I miss the absolute most about living in the wide open country is the ability to walk out the back door with a gun and open fire. Ah, the truly great outdoors!

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Post subject: Re: Small Town Living
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:22 am
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I don't think you gents (and ladies) know how isolated things can get! I'm only here for a few more weeks, but I dare you to look up Mount Magnet (Western Australia). I'm moving soon to a town just a little less isolated... What I wouldn't give for a chook farming magazine every now and then!


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