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Rank: Frosh
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Location: canada
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Towns can be secluded yet can have a homey environment that can impact the children, adults and elders as a group tremendously; whereas, urban areas are more prone to individualism.
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Rank: Frosh
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Woot! small town are the best place to grow up. the air is clean and the atmosphere is beautiful.  the only downside was that i attended a small elementary school in the area so you didnt really have much of a choice when it came to who your friends were
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Rank: Valedictorian
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Joined: 3/7/2008
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Location: Newmarket
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Don't like small towns especially when you live out in where there are only houses, one small cafe and one variety store close by. For a few km takes like 35 minutes walking to reach something besides that. That being said I did not grow up in a town but moved to one. I came from North York (Northern Toronto) when I was used to go across the street and there is a bank, grocery store, dollar store, coffee shop, glasses store, shoppers, beer store and Pastry/Italian bakery. That was all in one plaza.
YORK; Honors Arts - History Major/German minor? '12
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Rank: Frosh
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Location: Ste. Rose
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I come from a very small town. Everyone no's everyone. Moving to Winnipeg for University is going to be so hard because I will not have the same comfort as I do living in Ste. Rose!
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Rank: Senior Student
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Location: Winnipeg
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liz wrote:Towns can be secluded yet can have a homey environment that can impact the children, adults and elders as a group tremendously; whereas, urban areas are more prone to individualism. Small towns to give you the feeling similar to a cozy home but it's nice to have some adventure when you're living in a bigger city (for me, it's Winnipeg--biggest in Manitoba, haha). It's great to be around an immense diversity of people with different personalities, cultures, and backgrounds, because it gives you the real taste on how the world works. But hey, I would absolutely LOVE to come to a small town for a bit, but I will most definitely miss the life in the city.
Waiting on the world to change. ♥
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Rank: Senior Student
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Location: Waterloo
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Small towns are excellent places to live up until about age 11 and from age 40 on, but on those in between ages they can be the most emotionally stunting places on earth.
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Rank: Frosh
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Location: North Battleford, SK
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Bassoony wrote:Small towns are excellent places to live up until about age 11 and from age 40 on, but on those in between ages they can be the most emotionally stunting places on earth. Agreed, I'm 18 years old, I live in a ' city ' with about 18,000 people. I've had a horrible time here  . I can't wait to get out of here, and go somewhere larger.
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Rank: Frosh
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Location: Newmarket, ON
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I grew up in Port Colborne, which is on Lake Erie. It's a town of approximately 20,000 people, but had a small town attitude about it. As a kid you couldn't wait to get out of there and move to something bigger and better, but now that I'm an adult (shhh, don't tell anyone), I would certainly go back for the calmness and easy-going attitude of everyone around.
I also lived in Southampton with my kids for many years. It's a town of 2700 people and is located on Lake Huron. I LOVED it there, but moved away in 1997 so that I could get some sort of post-secondary education. Well, 10yrs later I'm finally reaching for my educational goals of becoming a teacher. I've nearly completed my first year but have 4 more years to go. Once I'm a teacher I'm definitely going to move to a small town. I really hate the hussel and bussel of cities and having to deal with people with road rage, etc.
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Rank: Frosh
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Location: British Columbia
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I have lived in a small town my entire life, and I don't think I would ever want to move into a big city. It is comforting being on a first name basis with a good majority of the people who live in your town. Also, it is hard to keep horses in big cities _
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Rank: Frosh
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Wow, i'm really suprised with what i'm reading....i live in a very small town and i can't wait to move to the city! Still, i am thankful for my beginnings here...
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Rank: Frosh
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I live in a large city and I feel so out of place and can't wait to get back to where I couldn't wait to get away from. I miss the leisurely way my old littel town functioned and how you knew everyone, there was a real sense of community and belonging. Plus I hate public transit, I liked being able to get where I needed to be in a half hour walk.
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Rank: Student Body Vice-President
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Location: Ottawa
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I loved living in Wolfville. That being said a small town where about half the people are university students (from Sept-April at least..) is a different atmosphere from many other small towns. I think another thing that's important to me is being able to walk to places that I need to get to regularly. That applies to Wolfville, and probably many other small towns but not all.
 
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Rank: Frosh
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Rank: Frosh
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Joined: 3/30/2008
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Location: Alexandria, ON
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It's going to be crazy for me to move into a bigger city (I'm going to Ottawa) because I come from a town with only 300 people in it. We have a restaurant and a corner store and that's it. I know almost everyone in my high school by face or name so goign to a school with thousands of students as opposed to only a couple hundred will be insane.
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Rank: Frosh
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Location: Bracebridge
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i grew up in a small town where everyone knows everyone(except in the summer). Im from a tourist town and its like a city in the summer but im still scared to go away to college in the city cuz i won't know anyone else there. all my friends are going to different schools than me and i am going to miss every1 including my 6 brothers. Ive never been away from home for more than a week or two and i think im going to go crazy. But im glad to be getting out of my hometown because there is nothing to do in the town
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Rank: Senior Student
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Joined: 3/26/2008
Posts: 63
Location: Ontario
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I live in a really small town (1000) and I hate it here, I am scared to go off to college but I really want to get out of here and meet new people. Small towns sound good but in reality there not, yes everyone knows you , this is not always a good thing. This means that there is alot of rumors and gossip.
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