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This has probably been done, but I've noticed different views of what counts as a "small town." Here's some that seem to appear here and elsewhere
*Any place with a population less than 500,000 so long as its population density is under 2,000 per square mile. - Example Virginia Beach, Virginia was once described as a "small town."
*A place whose metropolitan area is under 300,000 people. - Examples places like Lincoln, Nebraska and Duluth, Minnesota.
*Any suburb or town with less than 40,000 people. - Examples Milton, Massachusetts and Germantown, Tennessee as "small towns."
*Micropolitan areas that are not suburbs. A micropolitan area is one where the central city/town has 10,000 to 50,000 people. - Examples include Hilo, Hawaii and Tupelo, Mississippi.
*A town has to have less than 10,000 people, and not be a suburb, to be a small town. - Montpelier, Vermont and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania being two notable examples.
As I tend to come from very small places I might only include the last as really being "small town" but possibly I'd include some smaller micropolitan areas like Spearfish, South Dakota or Yazoo City, Mississippi.
-The population ranges from 100 to 40,000
-When fields and tractors are commonplace
-It can be still be a small town if it's near a city, or over 150 miles from one.
-(Sometimes) when someone says "Yawnto?"
-When there happens to be 3 to 15 cops in the town
-Main street can be idyllic and well kept, or falling apart and hasn't been refurbished since 1940.
*A town has to have less than 10,000 people, and not be a suburb, to be a small town. - Montpelier, Vermont and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania being two notable examples.
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A small city is a place with less than 2 million in the metro - a lot in the middle is grey as to what is a city, town, or just sprawled suburbs
But to me a small town is closest to your example above - though some felxibility on size - I mean maybe 15K but this is pretty close
Also a place is more than a number - small towns have a certain feel - you just know it when you are there and this is vastly different than a suburban feel; a place all to it's own even if small
Shows how much you know about your Southern cities...
Indeed. It's fairly odd to me to think of people seeing New Orleans and Memphis as "small town." (I considered "Atlanta" but said poster might deem it essentially Northern)
#5 -A small town equals someplace with a "Mayberry" type of feel to it.
#4 is a small city. I am reminded of this every time I make out a check for my water bill to the city finance department
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