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I want a town that is at least 1 hour and 30 minutes from any Walmart or chain store, or any grocery store that is a chain store. Gas stations don't matter, I know of Ely, Nevada but any other town? Also please make sure it has a hospital. Thank you so much.
I want a town that is at least 1 hour and 30 minutes from any Walmart or chain store, or any grocery store that is a chain store. Gas stations don't matter, I know of Ely, Nevada but any other town? Also please make sure it has a hospital. Thank you so much.
A town with a hospital but no chain stores? Good luck with that!
There are a couple of towns in Minnesota that have no chain supermarkets or chain stores, have hospitals, and are farther than an hour and a half from the nearest town offering any kind of chain retail. Coincidentally, both are very granola/hippie/liberal towns:
Grand Marais: beautiful artist/environmentalist community on the North Shore of Lake Superior
Ely: Northernmost town on the Iron Range and gateway to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, also contains lots of hippie types
Both of these places are clogged with tourists in the summer.
Ocracoke Island North Carolina. 2 hour by ferry to get to any major stores, shopping... Has mom and pop stores only on island. 1 gas station, 14 restaurants (all resident owned), 1 radio station (plays quite the variety). About 500 residence live there year round. During tourist season the number goes up to almost 1000.
Maybe Redfield, SD? It's about 70 miles from the nearest community with a real chain store (I think it has an ALCO, which is technically a chain, but it's not a national one by any stretch).
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