just like it takes an aqcuired "taste" to enjoy certain foods and beverages...
it takes an acquired "mature" state of mind to enjoy the umbiquity of living in a small town...

trust me OP ...when you get OLDER you will learn to appreciate SMALL TOWNS , SUBURBIA and RURAL LIFE
cause at this stage...YOU AIN'T LOOKING FOR WHERE THE PARTY AT..or WHERE THE HOES AT??...WHERE DA DRANK AND DOPE AT??
at this stage in life you should be u living in a small quiet area..Where you got all your luxuries at home...... i.e (bar.....deck out back to smoke out in...mancave....wifey)
when i was in my younger 20s i couldn't imagine staying out in some boondocks where the stores close at 9 pm and nothing not even the liquor store is open on sunday's.....and the only thing popping is a Wal Mart
but once i got into my late 30s.........and realizing how much i CHERISHED SLEEP....AND TRANQUILITY
i started residing in outlying areas ...and it's been so much better for me......
and mainly for the fact I HAD A SON ....fukk big city life when u got a child
im closer to my job which was 20 miles away from downtown anyway......my neighbors mind thier business and are mostly professional men and women..
and i don't have to walk out to traffic..sirens and random people walking past my home like those inner city areas....
plus i loooooooooooove the anonymity....as Jada said....."if you seen where i live you would think i was hiding!"
at first i was apprehensive thinking...."fukk a small town....everybody knows your name and shyt an all in your business"
thats not true..that's only in TV like mayberry on andy griffith....
most small towns are now unincorporated areas of larger towns....so most people commute from these areas to downtown to work
so THEY TOO BUSY TO WORRY OR EVEN GET TO KNOW thier neighbor...
i've been in my "small town" for over a year now and still don't know none of my neighbors.....
we too busy getting money and raising our kids to worry about other shyt........
unlike the "projects" or "brownstones" downtown where everybody is all in the "mix"....