My hometown is so small that

Georgiagranny

Georgiagranny

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the lead story in a recent edition of the weekly newspaper was "Stop Sign Installed." How small is my hometown? The stop sign wasn't even in town; it was in an even smaller town 30 miles away. Not much happens in my hometown. Obviously.

Is your hometown small? Do you still live there? If not, do you keep up with the local goings on?
 

yes my nearest town has a population of approx 25,000 ... and we get headlines like that too... we used to get Headlines such as Tony's bike was stolen from Franks cafe... but since they've built another couple of thousand houses on the East side of town, no-one knows Tony or frank because they're all incomers..

there's 800 people here where I live..acoorrding to the latest census
 
Our local small town, 3 miles away, has a little over 1,000 residents. There is a large rural K thru 12 school, and a half dozen stores which supply the basic needs...gas, groceries, hardware, barber/beauty shop, etc. There is virtually no crime, and the people are all friendly.
 
Where I live on the Dorset/Hampshire border, it's so small that it hardly registers on crime statistics. It's the 237th most dangerous overall out of the area's communities.

237 equates to, four break-ins in one year. The overall crime rate in the area in 2022 was 14 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares to the overall crime rate, coming in 43% or 1 in 60 per 1,000 residents. For England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole,

The New Forest is the 22nd safest location out of all towns, cities, and villages. In other words, the area where I live is so small that crime is more prevalent in the dictionary than it is in reality.
 
My town was so small that when they rolled up the streets at night sometimes they would forget to put them back out in the mornig. Nobody noticed.
 
My hometown was so small...
  • the clinic was called Joe's Hospital and Grill

  • long distance calls are delayed when the area code is busy

  • the town Lady of the Evening stands under a flashlight

  • in order to paint traffic lines, the road had to be widened

  • instead of hoses, the Fire Department uses water pistols

  • you had to make a reservation to use the parking meter

  • during snowstorms, salt was spread using a salad shooter

  • the local Motel 6 sleeps six

  • during a boxing match, both men have to sit in the same corner

  • the class valedictorian had both the highest & lowest averages

  • the Mayor was also the Sheriff, Town Council & street sweeper

  • we had no porn movie house; once a week someone left the shades up

  • the municipal water system's pump was supplied by Water Pik

  • before you visited, you could look out a window & see who was home

  • there was no town idiot -- everybody had to take turns

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