30 things that always agace people in small towns
Seriously, stop calling all that "adorable".
Whether your family has been there for generations or you have left the city's life behind for more space and better schools, small towns are an integral part of America's fabric. In fact, while urban populations can increase, more than a third of Americans callsmall towns residence. And while the idea of moving in a small town can conjure images of idyllic pastoral life and a community so tight, it is virtually family, and all that concerns the life of a small town is as charming as 'it seems.
Before you start dreaming of leaving your city life and start looking for this perfect piece of the property of the small town, make sure you know these 30 things that annoy people in small towns. And if you want to know what really pushes people nuts in big cities, do not worry! We also have those. Just just saw these30 things that always annoy people in cities.
1 Local celebrations Safeguarding traffic
These small town festivals and local carnivals may seem amusing to foreigners, but ask anyone living in a small town and they will tell you how bored they can be. Addition of 1000 additional cars to lowercase streets and municipal parking posted is a recipe for serious traffic.
2 The tourists commenting on how "adorable" everything is
Are some small towns cute? Sure. However, when tourists descend on where you live, work, work and usually do all things that people in urban areas make and doubt everything "adorable", it's just condescension. Seriously, the local gas station and this dilapidated home are not worthy of "oohs" and "aahs". And if you want a relaxing break of the little town of the small town, try one of the20 most zen locations on the earth.
3 Always seeing someone you know at the store
When you live in a big city, you enjoy the anonymity of your purchases from your local supermarket 24 hours a day in peace. In small towns, where your local grocery store is open at limited hours (and maybe not at all on Sundays, you will always meet someone you know when you are in your PJS, buying embarrassing transport, like a CHEESEBALLS industrial jar and tabloid magazine.
4 Have to drive everywhere
Do you want to be able to walk everywhere? Good luck to see that in a small town. In a large part of the small town of America, you have two choices: Take the car wherever you go or stay in. And when you want to do these hours behind the more enjoyable steering wheel, the head for these40 roads that everyone should lead to 40 years.
5 Companies that keep all the hours they want
In a big city, you can buy your grocery store at 3 o'clock in the morning, to adonate your desire for Shawarma at midnight, or see a movie before noon. In a small town, you might have trouble buying a beer Sunday.
6 Lack of delivery options
Find yourself hungry and run down the grocery store in a small town leaves you with three options: do you dress up and drive 30 minutes from the other dinner that is always open, has again hungry or order the pizza again . But do you know who does not seem to worry about? Your favorite stars. For the evidence, check these20 celebrities that have crossed Hollywood for the life of a small town.
7 Gossip always came back to the bad people
You may not think that you know everyone in your small town, but that you are assured, someone knows - and your business. This time you did with the drummer for this band and did not tell anyone? Yes, the local pharmacist, all your cousins and your high school chemistry teacher, all know. And when you want to reign in these commutive pulses, discover these20 ways to be less nasty.
8 The new residents act as they discovered the place
When new people move in your small town, they often act as if they are the first people to discover the place, a lot to the inconvenience of the inhabitants. It's not because you have opened a coffee or an old house does not mean that you have essentially written the charter of the city.
9 Have to keep your vices hidden
Want to have some drinks in a local bar? Do not you still quit smoking? Spend from time to time at night at your ex? If you are in a small town, you know how difficult it is to hide one of these vices.
10 Constant construction if your city becomes popular
If your city has obtained a recent press cover, prepare yourself at a seemingly stop construction. Suddenly, your picturesque city will be overloaded with people who build new businesses, fixing old houses for months and creating condos construction, making it virtually impossible for you to get anywhere in a time reasonable.
11 Drive your children everywhere until they get their license
If you have children in a small town, you know they have two choices to their license: stay at home or you are pulled by you. A lack of airworthiness means that there is virtually nothing to do, except that mom and dad warmed them until they are old enough to drive.
12 Virtually mandatory parades
Have you missed the parade of the commemorative day of your little town? You will definitely hear someone from someone. Although they may seem voluntarily, attending some small town events is more or less mandatory if you do not want to get a serious eye of your neighbors.
13 Hostility to newcomers
If you are a newcomer in a small town, you might simply find that you are not as welcome as you hoped. In fact, no matter why you moved to a small town, even if your family really lived there for generations - do not be surprised when people look at you like an outsider.
14 Tourists taking pictures of everything
Think about the great congestion of the city is bad? The streets of small towns are not exactly equipped to have a dozen people stop towards Instagram each cute house or an impressive display of Christmas lights, and the resulting traffic can seriously slow down.
15 Have nothing to do a Friday night
Making plans on a Friday night in a small town often means one of the three things: going to the house of a friend, go to the restaurant, or drive a ridiculously long time to do something fun in the city's most close.
16 Everyone knowing your parents
"Are not you the daughter of Jim and Cathy?" Yes. Even if everyone in your little town do not know you by your name, they probably know your parents. If your parents lived in the city for a while, you will always be "So-and-So's Kid" to older generations.
17 Limited options for housing
You may be delighted to have landed a great job in a small town, but it does not mean moving, it will be easy, necessarily. Small cities usually have limited rental actions and find anything, even comparable remotely to what you had in the city, whether it's open free space or kitchen with countertops In granite, is often almost impossible.
18 Find a place to park
Parking in a city can be difficult, but parking in a small town is often almost impossible. Not only is parking is limited in most small villages, if your city takes place a weekender or tourist population, it could be virtually impossible to find anywhere to park your car even at the supermarket.
19 Job search
The job hunt is never an easy process, but in a small town, it's practically torture. In addition to the limited job prospects, wages tend to be significantly lower than they would be in a big city, and you may need to feel the indignity of the interview with this kid who has always pushed you in high school lockers.
20 Always have to chat with someone when you go out
In a building of massive buildings in Manhattan, you may not even know the name of your neighbor neighbor. In a small town, you do not only know their name, family history and children's football program, but you are supposed to make a small conversation every time you see them.
21 See your exès all the time
Knowing that your exès continue to exist after breaking, it's pretty boring. However, living in the same small town as they means that you meet them constantly, whether you are in the bars, shops or Christmas party of your cousin.
22 Application of excessive law
Small city cops do not always have much on their plaques in terms of local crime. Unfortunately, that means someone has definitely look - and eager to go to the ticket - when you accidentally go in a 30.
23 Have virtually no option for the date night
Tinder does not help you much when there are not many people. In addition, if you try to impress a date in a small town, your options are often un limited. There is this chic restaurant, dinner, or 30 minutes from Chile.
24 Power failures
If a tree branch hits your power line in a small town, you'd better hope you have had a backup generator at your disposal. In many small towns, even an apparently minor storm can mean that power is out for a week.
25 Forced politeness
Sometimes you just want to talk about a coarse shopkeeper or honk your horn to someone who driving like a fool. Unfortunately, in a small town, the person you do this to be simply the mayor, the spouse of your boss or the kid of your neighbor's neighbor, which means that you have virtually no choice but to always deceive you from side of extreme politeness.
26 Children anywhere
A lack of things for teenagers to do means a seriously boring problem: children pronounce everywhere. Leave your car in a car park for 20 minutes and when you are back, there are teenagers who make teenagers, which makes the hood and a group of other blowing cotton-beak of the fragrant steam smoke In your face.
27 INCOMPECENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT
Small city policy often supports little population of the greater government. When only two people are running, you have sometimes left choosing the least of two evils. And sometimes, this person is always an unskilled idiot.
28 Running in your primary school teachers
If you still live in the small town, you grew up, you know the discontent of running in your teachers wherever you go. This date, you are on someone again? Buckle for having to present them to your primary school teacher.
29 Have spent two hours in the car to arrive at the nearest cultural attraction
If you live in the city, the nearest museum or opera is probably just a jump, jump and a gap jump. If you want to enjoy similar cultural activities when you live in most small towns, get ready for a few hours of travel time to a major attraction.
30 Go is impossible
Although there were a lot of falls to live in a small town, it can sometimes feel practically impossible to leave your humble little hometown behind. Just when you think you're looking forward to going elsewhere, you realize all the people, places and things about the life of a small town that you will miss when you go. And if you decide to leave for greener pastures, checkThe 100 most happy cities of America.
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