Who here lives in the smallest town?

[macbook yes]

I grew up in the same city my whole childhood. I was born when the population was just nearing 50k, and moved to college when the population was over 150k.
Now I live in a college town and I believe the pop is around 120k.

 

[sushi]

I used to think I came from a small town (Population 100).

After reading this thread, maybe I should call it a micro-town.

 

[instaxgirl]

You didn't like Graz only because it was half the size of Edinburgh? I used to live in Austria some years ago and I really enjoyed it. There are many smaller towns and villages in Austria, but their atmosphere and surrounding nature makes them really lovely. I'm not sure really if I would be able to loath the place simply because it is half the size of what I'm used to.

Oh I wouldn't have minded it there was anything in that half size. But I didn't find anything special about the town. Apart from the lift inside the mountain, and the club events inside the mountain. And the little train inside the mountain. And learning that during the war children from the school in my street used to run to the bomb shelter they excavated inside the mountain, which was quite a ways to run. And that bomb shelter could fit 30,000 people, which is pretty cool. Thinking back the mountain was the highlight of my stay. (although I think it's too small to actually be a mountain)

But from the day I found the town centre I was unimpressed. To be fair to myself I didn't spend the time sulking. I thought "pah, culture shock, or homesickness, or something" and set out to learn more. I think I explored more of that city than anyone else I knew there. I went to all the attractions, I hunted down everything there was to do and I walked miles and miles and miles across it. I went all over the place.

And it was absolutely nothing special, and there wasn't a whole lot to do. There wasn't anything there. Oh, and the stunning surrounding countryside thing? I know some Austrian towns have this, I visited and saw it. Graz does not have the surrounding panorama of mountains, at all. When you looked out towards the edge of the horizon you saw nothing. When I headed out of the town I saw lots of corn fields. Lots. I'm not really a surrounding nature person anyway. If it's going to be me and the nature for more than oh, a week, being surrounded by nature doesn't console me for the fact that there's nothing there apart from the nature.

 

[63dot]

Bit of info about the place here for those of you bored at work http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunstanton

That seems like an amazing small town with a lot of history. In the states, if any inhabited place were around for that many centuries, developers would have overbuilt the place with McMansions and shopping malls.

There is a shopping mall outside of my town in a similar patch of nice, sandy coastline (just like your photo and the wiki page photo), but where they put it in rather quickly (Target, Best Buy, Kohl's, REI, etc). The only positive thing about this large mall is that you can get Macs, and since there is a university down the street from that mall, that Best Buy sells tons of Macbooks. The only reason for the neighboring town's "official" Apple store is to sell iPods and its accessories, and it's floorspace and extensive iPod/iPod related inventory reflects that. For some reason, this Best Buy doesn't have the iPod thing going, but the two stores compliment each other very well with one for computers and the other for iPods.

It's just surreal that you could be walking on some of the most isolated, unspoiled beaches in my state, cross the road, and walk into a palace full of Macs and high tech toys.