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06/19/12, 04:59 PM
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What size is a "small town" to you?
What kind of population (or area) is a small town to you?
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06/19/12, 05:10 PM
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Welllll, dh and I classify any town as a small town if they don't have a Walmart 
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06/19/12, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by mommathea
Welllll, dh and I classify any town as a small town if they don't have a Walmart |
Even if you come from a city of a million plus and your town has 12k and a Walmart? 
I have seen alot of under 50k places with Walmarts... which is VERY small to anyone who has lived in 500k+ places.
Ofcourse those living in said 12k places view places under 1k as "small".
This one really comes from perspective and I think how big of a place you grew up in.
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06/19/12, 05:22 PM
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That makes me wonder... does Walmart have a "minimum" population they will build in or is there more to it?
The 12k place I refered to was West Plains, MO. They have a Walmart. Ofcourse they are also the largest "town" in a 100 mile radius and many people go there to shop. So did they meet the minimum population, or was it simply because of being the largest town in a 100 mile radius?
One of my fav places in CO is Glenwood Springs and they have a 9k population and a Walmart... ofcourse they are the biggest town too along the mountains on I-70.
Hmmm I see a pattern. Now going to rack my brain to think of any places less than 9k I have seen with a Walmart.
I may have to start a new thread on this!!! My curiosity is killing me now! LOL
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06/19/12, 05:22 PM
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We have a town that is under 500 nine miles from here, I say that is small in my mind. > Marc
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06/19/12, 05:23 PM
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I use red lights.....a small town has none. Less than five and you are a suburb. Above six and there is no difference between your town and NYC.
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06/19/12, 05:24 PM
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We got one stop sign but it's a four way  But i don't live in town to crowded 
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06/19/12, 05:25 PM
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For me, no town is small enough to live in. There's a reason I live where I do.
But realistically, town is a few thousand to around 10,000. At 10,000 that is pushing city to me. Don't even think about the megatroplis sized - headaches..
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06/19/12, 05:26 PM
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One red light, one store, about 1000 people and one old grouch....a small town....
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06/19/12, 05:28 PM
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I've lived in towns from about 7 to 9 thousand and find them perfect. Larger towns are only a hop skip and a jump away if you really need to go.
A small town to me is anything without a grocery store I suppose. No actually, I don't think I'd consider that a town even. Under 500 maybe.
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06/19/12, 05:30 PM
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Ok I made a spin off thread on Walmart: What is the smallest town you have seen a Walmart in?
No grocery store and counting lights and stop signs on one hand = "tiny" town to me.
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06/19/12, 05:35 PM
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A small town doesn't have a stop light.
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06/19/12, 05:42 PM
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For me, it is anything with no services. Usually here this means a place with fewer than 100 souls. Our main town has almost 1000, but they have everything your little heart desires. The smallest I know of with a Walmart, has about 4 000 people.
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06/19/12, 05:44 PM
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A small town is one that has it's name on the state map, but as you drive down the highway, you never notice the town. When the city limit signs are both on the opposite sides of the same post, it's a small town.
Rochester In. is around 6000, and has had a WalMart for about 20 years. They are building a new super one right now. There are 3 other big Walmarts within 25 miles of there.
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06/19/12, 05:46 PM
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We have 109 in our town which I call small. The next town over about 20 miles away has 450 and is a small city to me. 25 miles the other direction is a big city of 14K and it has a Walmart....we hate to go there (the big city not Walmart).
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06/19/12, 05:47 PM
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There's one zip code for the town.
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06/19/12, 05:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jennifer L.
There's one zip code for the town.
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That's just about every town in our state...big and small.
My town has 232 full time residents and I would call it small....that's about 100 maple taps per person.
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06/19/12, 06:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Freya
What kind of population (or area) is a small town to you?
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anything over 50k population is a city, between 1000 and 50k is towns.... small towns to me would be in the 1 to 5 thousand range... less than a 1000 population on down is a village. Some of those villages are merely a wide spot in the road.
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06/19/12, 07:11 PM
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Well, technically, a town is self-governing - a local government or council.
A village is not self-governing, but does have public buildings - a village hall, or a school.
A hamlet is a collection of houses, maybe even shops or inns, but has no publicly-owned buildings.
There is no technical distinction between small, medium and large towns. You can draw the lines where you like.
The only distinction between a town and a city is that some higher authority - state or national government - says it is a city. Cities used to be characterised as towns with cathedrals, but that distinction no longer applies.
For my taste, a nice small town is population somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000. Smaller may be nice places to live, but they aren't generally big enough to self-sustaining.
A nice medium town would be 2,000 - 3,500.
Any more population is too darned big. If I want something that takes more population than that to sustain, I'm sure there'll be a neighbouring town that's been happy to grow too big, and I can make occasional visits there. They'll be close enough to keep the prices in my local town reasonable, and given that then I'll be happy to shop locally and avoid paying for fuel too often.
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06/19/12, 07:48 PM
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I was born in a small city, raised in large metropolises (Chicago, San Diego, Denver ) and have lived in rural wilderness.
I consider a small town to have a population of 5,000 and under.
A village is less then a 1,000 folks
(a small city would be more then 5,000 to roughly 20,000)
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