You Know You Live in a Small Town When... (electricity, farm, houses)
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Judging by your location you probably drove past them on your trips down US 1.
I rarely get over to the coast. The coast is predominately tourism, seasonal gift ships and restaurants. Full of tourists in the summer, nearly deserted in winter. Dotted with a lot of 'quaint' towns the tourists expect.
In winter the traffic along the coast is like inland traffic. You can often drive to your destination without seeing any one vehicles. But along the coast are fewer abandoned houses and collapsing barns.
Inland is more rural. I imagine for every six or eight townships there is one urban enough to have a Post Office with one full-time worker.
Our town is not urban enough to have one. Neither are the towns to our North, East or West, or the bigger town to our South has one.
Last year the rumors were that all small Post Offices were going to shut down.
Yep, looks like the new one in Hadley. And, mam o man, does our mail get here fast.
You might live in a small town when the big box mail truck is at the parking lot of the post office and you know he is in the cab napping because he doesn't leave until four P.M. The post mistress won't let anyone disturb him. I am not making this up.
if there are stores along main street, why wouldn't there be street lights.
Most farms by me utilize night lighting also.
I don't know why so many people who move to a rural area feel having any sort of night lights violates an " unwritten code "
When I was a child on my parent's farm, they had street lights around the barn, all night. They lit-up the entire property every night.
Now [many decades later] I have settled in a rural area where folks appreciate the night sky. Light pollution is frowned more on.
In any case, someone is paying the electric bill.
If a town does it, then it comes from taxes.
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