Small town people don’t need big cities
The traffic, the hustle, the bustle, the crime
The crowded streets and stores
The increasingly polluted air
Houses crammed too close to each other
The soul suffocation of a penned in life
They’d rather the clean country air
The uncrowded streets and stores
The easy, peaceful living
The soul-satisfying, safer, quiet life
Bob Boyd
I live in a small city, but there are times when I kind of wish I lived in a small, quiet town a ways from the city. I used to do yearly presentations about resources for seniors and Medicare, and I often went to a small town called Pleasant Garden. I loved that town and really would have liked to have lived there.
Decades ago, I lived in a tiny town in Vermont that was quite rural. I didn’t like it. There was nothing there, but if I had an Internet connection back then, and if there were at least a couple of stores there, I would have liked it. Plus, since I buy a lot online, if I had Internet back then, I probably wouldn’t even have needed the stores. But that was before the Internet.
Though I believe one would need a significant other to really adapt to country living. I think it would be difficult on your own unless you had lived in the country all your life or for many years.
Come to think of it, with the right significant other, one could probably be content and happy anywhere, except in a warzone or an extremely dangerous location.
