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I grew up in a town of 900 people. Small towns aren't really all that, unless you're into driving 30 miles to go to the movies, the mall, etc. However, if drinking in a cornfield or on a country road is your idea of a fun night out, then you'd fit in well in a small town.
I live in a kinda small town with about 4000 people but we do have to drive about 30 miles to get to a good movie theater. We have a movie theater in a bigger town about 6 miles from home but never go there b/c it's just a small and rather old theater which doesn't show good movies
I like living in a small town altho 900 people would be a bit too smallish for me
personally im dying to live in a small town. One day hopefully i will
I do live in a small town and I want to keep on living in one. All our cinemas are closed, we don`t have mall and we have amazing nature. How does that sounds?
I loved this series! I am now reading her new book, The Host and am having a really hard time getting into it. Did anyone else read it and did you like it?
It takes a while to get into "The Host" but I thought it was worth the time. It's a very odd book and most folks I know did not like it. I think they were expecting something along the lines of the "Twilight" series. It's totally different but I liked the book.
I come from a town of 4,000-6,000 (somewhere in that range), and quite frankly, I loathe it. Maybe I was just born for huge-ass-city-life, but the small town life is not for everyone. If you like it, great, but as for Forks/LaPush/PortAngeles in general, I just like camping there. The Salt Creek Campground in P.A. is GORGEOUS. And like another poster said, PA, is actually a really small town itself, but you can take ferries over to Victoria, B.C., so that's a plus.
Point being, I wouldn't want to live up there, but going and vacationing now and then can be very relaxing. Do not make your moving decisions just based off a book though, please. It may be an ok book, but that shouldn't be your only reason. Do your research, go visit the place first and really get a feel for if you'd be happy there. You would have to drive a whole lot of places to do anything, and gas ain't getting any cheaper.
I'm from Washington state and am amazed at the number of people who seriously think about uprooting their lives and moving to a water-logged town based on a fictitious movie (for most, the books for a few).
Forks is an economically depressed town that has been dying since the logging industry has been knocked down so badly over the last few years. It's very small and insular. It averages between 12 and 15 FEET rain per year. One of the most common jokes I heard is that Forks doesn't really have vampires--the residents are just so pale outsiders think they are.
People I know from the area were laughing over the portrayal of the high school, especially since it had such a nice ever so pc mix of ethnically diverse kids. It is a very, very different place than portrayed in the movie. Much of it wasn't shot in Forks. Nearly any part of the movie where you saw a big river? It was the Columbia River, in an area known as The Gorge, located well over 100 miles away.
More power to Forks. Maybe something can help that poor little wet town.
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