What is the town like where you live?

My town is small. Its kinda run down and everyone around me speaks spanish so I can't understand them. But they are all really nice deceant people. I wish I knew Spanish.

I live in a small city, about 75,000 on last count. It's a university and college town so I'm not sure what that number becomes during the school year. It's very eclectic thanks to the international students, but also very mellow since it has the most retirement communities per capita! lol.

The town I live in is small and mostly quiet.. except for the "neighbors" across the street. I like living in a rural area.. I don't like really crowded places.

The town I live in is fairly small with few amenities for young families. (I lived here in HS and we didn't get a movie theatre within 30 minutes until my junior year). We have to drive about 30-45 minutes to get to a real mall (although they've almost finished one about 20 minutes away, but it doesn't have a ton of stores.) We are just now starting to get mid-size city restaurants-Red Robin, Fuddrucker's, Bonefish Grill, PF Changs have opened or are set to open this year. We are a rapidly growing area (some estimates have the NW Arkansas metroplex larger than Dallas/FTW by 2015.) We are consistently ranked among the top 20 places to live in the US.

I have just moved to the town of my dreams- or close to....I would like to move more towards my mom's. It is beautiful with lots of trees and I love the clouds here.....along witht the rain and thunderstorms.....I am in heaven
Where I am from was a big town in Cali.....very fast pace and here is more layed back......thank GOD.

My town sucks!! It is a very small town, with one stop light.....no Wal Mart, no mall nothing-LOL!!! It isnt really all that bad, it does get boring though. I mean the small town safety and the schools are nice, but when you want something good to eat or wanna go shopping, you got to drive.

i dont really live in a town, kinda in between cleveland and very very tiny town,
i guess it kinda goes long with the very tiny house(grrr i really cant beleave how much i paid for this shack)

however i like it not much noise. the next house over is about 200 yards away,
that wife SOOOO hates it, it is 30 min to get to like any real shopping,(if she would stay in the US long enough to get DL she could drive herself) she is scared of the woods that are around saying someone could break in and no would hear her yell for help.

however my real house that i have in bali, is up in hills not far from town. front view is rice fields and back veiw is the ocean or boy i miss that place i hope that get this court case over soon so i can go back,

I live in quite a small "town" in the desert. It's my perfect balance of rural + town. I have 6 acres and most of our neighbors have about that, sometimes more, sometimes less. The construction and growth here is insane. The last population count said about 6,000 people. I think it's just about doubled. It's really ssad how much desert has been chopped down and how many animals have lost their homes. I miss the way it was before it grew.

I think the small town that is 2 miles away is I'm thinking less than 1000 people. No stop lights, a bunch of bars, a grocery store, video store-the only FF is Subway at the gas station!! We have lots of large dairy farms but slowly its getting developed. My road is 1.5 miles long and there are now 18 houses up from 6 in 1987 when we bought our house. We have 5 plus acres which is enough for now!! But we are halfway between Green Bay (Lambeau Field-the football mecca for many!!) and Appleton which has the largest shopping district in the state of WI. So I take my pick on what city I want to go to on any given day as it takes about 20 min or so.

I live in our state's capital city, but it is not our biggest city at all. Untill recently we had lots of pretty farm land surrounding the town. Our downtown has lots of beautiful colonial times buildings. Plus brick streets and things. I love that area. Most things are conveniently near by. But now they are building huge houses on top of each other. It's a crying shame in the name of greed! They say retired people are buying these houses...what retired person wants a +250,000 square foot house to clean!?! Ever heard of working smarter not harder people!?! You retired to keep up with that!?! Ok off my soap box.

Other than that my town is pretty nice. It's a good mixture of people and backgrounds I think. I don't particularly care for my current neighborhood, but it deffinately could be worse. Hopefully in about 2 years we'll be moving on to a 'real house.'

We used to be pretty rural here. I'm in the middle of 3 towns. The one to the south is slowing working it's way north and more and more woods and farms are being eaten up with subdivisions. (With houses that are too big, too pricey and most who move in are only here a few years!) We are also in the middle of 3 golf courses!

The entrepreneur who bought my grandfather's farm wanted to put lots of houses in the woods behind us, but he needed our house and the two on either side. Mom refused to sell so only one house could be built back there. A man who grew up in our neighborhood (and sis used to babysit) bought the house to our south after that neighbor died. He thanked mom for not selling out - he could afford the house - and thanks her weekly by mowing the front and side yard. (We offered to pay for his gas, but he declined. Said he needed a place to "turn the mower around". )

The other 2 towns are more redneck and not as popular as the town to the south but they are growing. They are finally improving the road to those towns from Evansville. Anyway, we don't have too far to drive to shop and to visit the vet (I knew him in school!). Mom likes it here (she's been here since 1930), as do I. Can't help it, we are north of Paradise! (Small community that never did incorporate.)

I'm up in the mountains of So. California in Big Bear. About 30,000 people. We have enough amenities up here to get by, but if you want the mega stores, it's an hour down the hill in either direction. I'm originally from Orange County, so it is an adjustment for me. Though I did live the past 7 years in the Portland, Or area. I can take it either way, but the ideal is to live in a small city about 20-30 miles from a large city.

I actually really like it up here because of the beautiful scenery and the clean air. Although I wish the public transportation ran a little more than once an hour!!