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It's so quiet here.

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notfred

Lifer
I'm at my parent's house. They live in a small community that's tucked between the ocean and some coastal mountains, kind of a suburb (if you can even call it that) of a town of 50,000 people. I can go outside and barely hear anything. No sirens, no people yelling, no motorcycles or cars with loud exhaust. Just a faint background noise that can either be the ocean or the main road.... it's hard to tell them apart from a distance.

And when I go outside and look up I see stars. Lots of them. Not just a few really bright ones shining through a yellowish streetlight haze, but a whole sky filled with them.

It's easy to forget what a small town is like after spending a couple years in a city with half a million people.
 
Originally posted by: notfred
I'm at my parent's house. They live in a small community that's tucked between the ocean and some coastal mountains, kind of a suburb (if you can even call it that) of a town of 50,000 people. I can go outside and barely hear anything. No sirens, no people yelling, no motorcycles or cars with loud exhaust. Just a faint background noise that can either be the ocean or the main road.... it's hard to tell them apart from a distance.

And when I go outside and look up I see stars. Lots of them. Not just a few really bright ones shining through a yellowish streetlight haze, but a whole sky filled with them.

It's easy to forget what a small town is like after spending a couple years in a city with half a million people.
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thats not a small town...not at all. Thats medium sized. You wanna see small? Try the town I pass through to get to school...population: 109
 
small town of 50,000? haha.. We only have 3,019 or something like that in our town here in good old southwestern minnesota.
 
I would consider Nevada City (in Nevada County, in Califonrnia) a small town, last I checked, populataion 3,001. Still not the smallest, but small enough to have that small town vibe going on.
 
I realize that 50,000 people is not the smallest town in the world, but I still think it counts as small. It's certainly not a big town, and it's definitely small when compared to the 500k+ that I've gotten used to.

Anyway, the point of the post wasn't to scrutinize the exact number of people that constitutes a "small town".
 
Originally posted by: notfred
I realize that 50,000 people is not the smallest town in the world, but I still think it counts as small. It's certainly not a big town, and it's definitely small when compared to the 500k+ that I've gotten used to.

Anyway, the point of the post wasn't to scrutinize the exact number of people that constitutes a "small town".
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Where is it?
 
Originally posted by: pray4mojo
Originally posted by: notfred
I realize that 50,000 people is not the smallest town in the world, but I still think it counts as small. It's certainly not a big town, and it's definitely small when compared to the 500k+ that I've gotten used to.

Anyway, the point of the post wasn't to scrutinize the exact number of people that constitutes a "small town".
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Where is it?
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I'm in Aptos, CA. The town I'm talking about with 50,000 people is Santa Cruz, just to the north of here. I'm really not in Santa Cruz though, and we do have more of the small town feel than we would if I was actually in town.
 
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