The Ten Best Things About Growing Up in a Small Town World

January 23, 2014 by Susan Shay 7 Comments

I love, love, love living in a Small Town World. (In case you haven’t guessed.) And here are just a few of the reasons why . . .

1. Public workers are often people you went to school with. (That’s especially good when you’re speeding and get pulled over or you forget to pay the water bill.)
2. When you call someone and get a wrong number, it’s usually someone you know. (At least they know someone you know.)
3. You went to church with some of your teachers. “Mr. Ritchie, do we have to take that test tomorrow?” (That can be a bad thing, too.)
4. Your kids play with the kids of your friends when you were a kid. (That can be a bad thing, too, too.)
5. Directions are often, “Turn at the Dari Diner, go past Doc Saddoris’s house and the old school to the street where Mrs. Jordan lived.”
6. Instead of street addresses it’s, “The old Johnson House” or “The Mullendore Mansion.”
7. If your kids do something wrong, you hear it before they get a chance to lie to you about it.
8.  If you friended every one of the kids you graduated with on Facebook, you’d have a whopping 69 friends. (My cousins from Old Ford would only have twenty-something friends.)
9. When you apply for your first job, you usually call your prospective boss by his first name. (My first three jobs.)
10. The people you grew up around are nicer than people anywhere else in the world. In fact, they’re THE BEST!

Bonus #11: You know where the bodies are buried. 🙂

I know I’m missing some like, “kids from all churches attend various church functions” (especially if there’s food) and “when a dog gets lost, someone across town will recognize it, call it by name and return it to you.”

What else am I leaving out?

Next time–the worst things about living in a Small Town World. (If I can think of any.)