| small town folk |
Aug. 15th, 2009|07:07 pm |
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I think the year I spent in rural South Carolina really soured me on the idea of living in a small town. Since that time I've always said I want to live in a big city because small town folk are all inbred anti-intellectual uncultured hicks. But I'm starting think that maybe it was just South Carolina residents that are inbred anti-intellectual uncultured hicks. I've only been here in Juneau for two months now, and in some ways I'm starting to see that small town life isn't all that bad. The people here are, at least to a degree, friendly modern and interesting. And it's kinda fun to see the same people over and over again everywhere you go. I'm not the most outgoing person, and even I find it hard to go a day without bumping into someone I know on the street or in a coffeehouse or at the movies. I feel sort of welcome here, and that's a nice feeling. I can see why people like living in a place like this, even if there isn't as much to do here as in a big city. Maybe the people seem more interesting because they all have big city attitudes. Even though Juneau has less people living here then went to my college, it's still one of the biggest cities in Alaska, so the people here don't think of themselves as 'small town folk', they think of themselves as sophisticated city dwellers. So it's really the best of both worlds, you get the small town friendliness of living in the sticks, with some of the pro-culture, pro-intellectualism of living in the big city. Not a bad mix really. |
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