Living in a small town

While there are benefits and added conveniences to living in the city, living in a small town has it's benefits as well. I love the quiet of my neighborhood. I love that my kids can play out in the yard and I don't really have to worry about them, of course they aren't totally unsupervised but I can go in and out and not worry. I love that I can go to the store to get a gallon of milk and it take an hour because I ran into someone that I hadn't seen in a while so we took the time to catch up. I love that when I go into my bank everyone that works there knows my name when I walk through the door and they are more then happy to take the time to help me with any thing I need. I love that as I drive down the main street in town I will inevitably pass at least 2 people that I know and we always wave at each other. I love that I can sit on a park bench on the corner and have a conversation with a total stranger, and them be shocked that I would actually sit and talk to them. I love that my daughter can walk down the street and people who pass her know who she belongs too. I love that I can see someone that I don't know and they will say "hey tell Larry I said hi" because they know my husband and who I am. I love that when I drive down my street I know who almost every one of my neighbors are. I love that our little town is only an hour's drive from the city when we feel the need to go there.

I know that there are many people who love city living and I will agree that there are great things about living in a bigger town. But I think I will happily take my little town of under 1000 people. Where I've know the Chief of Police since I was my daughter's age, our mayor since grade school. I also know that there are people who live in my own town who don't like all those things that I love because they feel like "everyone knows everything about everyone else's business", and while yes that sometimes is a downfall to living in a small town. I still will take that over the crazy, noisy, chaos of city life any day.