Im doing an essay on people that were raised in small towns apposed to people who grow up in the city?

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Im doing an essay on people that were raised in small towns apposed to people who grow up in the city?
but the problem is i dont know anyone from any small towns so i dont have any reasearch to go on can any one give me there exspirence on how there life was growing up and if u feel it alterd how u grew up can u also tell me the name of ur small town and were its from for my essay please thanks

Answer 1

I grew up in Bethlehem, PA, which is a medium-sized town among three medim-sized towns clustered together (A-B-E: Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton), and with Easton right across the Delaware from Phillipsburg, NJ.

Until I was 4, I lived in Emmaus, PA, at the time a small, rural borough where most of my mother's 12 siblings made up a substantial part of the community. It took Rodale to put Emmaus on the map.

I was so used to hearing my parents speak that the only time I ever noticed any Pennsylvania Dutch accent was when they spoke Pennsylvania Dutch to keep secrets from us, but with my grandparents it was a lot more obvious. When my mother's parents used to get on each other's nerves, my grandfather would say "Ach nah mami!" and my father's parents, especially his mother, called me "Cherry"!

Bethlehem Steel was one of the largest employers in that part of the Lehigh Valley. My father retired from there in 1982. It's really depressing to drive past the miles of empty, rusted-out buildings that used to be operating around the clock.

Answer 2

I grew up in a small town near Fort Worth, Texas. As a child we hated living in a small town because everyone knew everyone else's business and we couldn't do ANYTHING without our parents knowing about it BEFORE we got home. We had to go to town (Fort Worth or Dallas) to shop as we had few stores other than grocery stores and some small variety and drug stores. We all wanted to get out of there as soon as we were out of high school.

The nice part was we had a lot of freedom to roam the countryside and experience things that our city friends never got to experience. We knew all our neighbors. We left our doors unlocked without fear of anyone intruding. The whole town stuck together when necessary (right or wrong....and we were sometimes wrong). We made good friends at school and we've kept in touch even though most of us did move on to other small towns or big cities.

Our small town has grown A LOT in the last 15 years and I would not want to raise a family there today, but it was probably the best place for my parents to have raised me and my siblings. It was close enough to the big cities that I was not shocked when I did move to the city, but it was country enough to give me some old fashioned values that some of my city friends seem to be missing.

Answer 3

I grew up in Phoenix, AZ. I've lived in a small town in Minnesota now for 20 years. The young people here are more respectful, I think because everyone knows where everyone else lives, what they drive, and know their parents. And if people don't like you here, you're not going to get a job, or even the things you may want to buy. People are more eager to pull their own weight. And in a really small town, the people don't live there because it's convenient, or the living is easy (especially in northern MN), they live there because they want to. And that makes for a better group of people.

Answer 4

sure. i grew up in a small rural town in north carolina called princeton. i went to the same school for 13 years (K-12) with approximately the same 65 people. i had a hard time keeping the same friends through those years and was always looking forward to new people coming to the school. i wasn't an outcast, i was liked by the popular crowd. i just saw what they did to those who were not pretty, well to do, or smart. they bullied them very harshly.

maybe it was my religion. i was the only catholic kid in my grade and we had to drive half an hour to church every sunday so i spent a lot of time with my family. those kids at my church were more my speed. but now i don't even attend church....hmm.

i think growing up in a small town has helped me be more creative. you were not able to walk down the street or to the next house to play with your friends so you had to really use your imagination to keep yourself occupied. MacGyver was my hero! i've always been inquisitive and seeking hands-on knowledge of how things work.

after i left school and went to college i didn't go wild, but i didn't make the same grades i had in high school either. i think because my school just didn't try and teach the students, they let you get away with anything. i graduated in the top 10 of my class in high school. wasn't too hard to do either, the education was lacking to say the least. i remember desperately wanting to go to the larger schools in the area because of the curriculum they were teaching.

while i was in college, i didn't reach out and make a lot of new friends. probably because i'd been around the same people for so long and hadn't been close to any of them. i'd guess that the biggest downfall to growing up in a small town--social disorder and rebellious independence!

Answer 5

its tighter. Everyone knows who is who. so you can't get away with anything. Which is why people from small towns are nicer.