The city is where life's at! Or at least that's what our society, media, and every single city-dweller would make you believe. All the job opportunities, plenty of places to pick for dinner, and endless options for weekend activities are some of the shiniest gems the city has to offer. No wonder so many young (and sometimes old) people are drawn to the metropolitan glam. Amongst those who are most eager to join the big city life are those hailing from humble beginnings in small towns, all ready to escape the isolated areas where it feels like everyone's living in your backyard. However, you can't truly escape the small city aura no matter how far away you run. In a way, it's in your blood.
That's why one of the best ways to deal with things you dislike about living in a small town is to laugh at them. And if you're one of the people who grew up in a big city, well, now's a good chance to taste what the rest of the peeps experience. Scroll down to see the funniest memes about living in a small town and don't forget to comment and vote for your favorites!
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My teachers are the students of my parents who are also teachers 😂
You forgot the rest: -Where you from? *Vancouver -Canada? *No. Washington. -There is a Vancouver there too? *Yes, it's right across the river from Portland.
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Do you know that phobia of too much space, like, the opposite of agoraphobia? As someone from a bigger city this sounds quite suitable...
My half brother, raised in Washington D.C. suburb, actually had a panic attack
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Bingo! "I grew up X hours North/South/East/West of Recognizable City"...
As a Maine resident I have to do this all the time because the only place anyone knows in maine is Portland
I actually know someone in Portland, Maine, because we once worked together in San Francisco. Maybe I'll even visit one day...
Load More Replies... I'm from a small town in Germany called Homburg, and every time someone asks me where I'm from I have to say "Homburg, NOT Hamburg!"
I stayed with a family in Ottmaring, near Friedberg. When I explain this to a German in the US, they frequently assume I have mispronounced the city and say "you mean Freiberg"! (This mostly occurrs with teens or young adults. I have found that most Germans in their 40's and older are better acquainted with German geography. )
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stockdale, its about 150 miles south from san antonio, which is 500 miles west of Austin, which is in texas
LOL for me my hometown is Franklinville NY or "about 60 miles south of Buffalo"
When we lived on Crete, directions to our house were "first right after the pita stand, then first right and second house past the blue dumpster." These were dirt roads with no house numbers or street names.
I was working in an office and the alarm kept going off. I called the alarm company, and the rep. replied that they would have someone there in the afternoon. After staring at the phone for a few seconds, I asked him if he knew were we lived. Of course, he said no. I then explained we were 6 hours from the closest city, and that we were 80 miles south of the Oregon Border. Unsurprisingly, they didn't even get there within a week. They told us how to shut off the alarm, then said they would wait for another problem in our area so that they could bundle it all in one visit. Ah, small town living.
Even after a lengthy explanation, maps, and video's and endless direction, they still think you're really part of Canada and walk away. You know how those Canadians like to brag.
Our country is so unknown you have to reference being east of Australia
Soooo true - SMALL city - 20 miles away. If they're not aware of that one - the bigger one an hour away LOL
our city is in a metro area of about 100k and we're still "just south of green bay"
Is small town America the equivalent of a British village? Without the The Little Tea Shoppe?
Who needs more than five pounds of butter at once...? (Please note this is a legitimate question and not meant o be rude in any way)
I have done this, I have also been behind the horse in my car. There are crossing signals at the intersections which are high enough to operate from horseback.
*Drives through small southern town* *Sees 16 different churches*
As a small child, I would sit in my garage with my parents when there was severe weather, just to watch the show.
My Junior prom my friends and I all went to Bandidos... Senior prom I ate a banana at home before I went to prom by myself. A nice guy made sure I didn't walk down Promenade alone that year, though.
almost everyone who was in my kindergarten class was also in my graduating class
I prefer lesser-known local restaurants, every one I have eaten at while travelling has had better food than most chains.
This has literally been my entire life while living in a small town.
As someone from a small town, these stopped being funny about halfway through because I actually relate to all of them.
This is the first thing on Boredpanda in a while that I could really relate to! That being said, I love living in a small town :)
When you are from a farm town of under 60 people. And manure smells like home(true story)
Or when you do your best to go through the next town on the way to Tractor Supply in the morning, so you get the breeze that smells like bacon instead of the evening when the breeze that smells like manure.
Load More Replies... When you can go to the salvage yard and you know who owned most of the junked cars there, you are from a small town.
Many moons ago when I was young I jumped into our pond to save one of our ducks that had a huge tear in her side. My Dad decided to give her stiches( he did great, she went on to live a long health life) . He mentioned it to one of his friends. A few weeks later the story came back around to him that he jumped into the pond to save me and then he gave ME stitches. Gotta love living in a small town.
I flew from England to New York a few years ago, i was halfway up the empire state building and who should be coming down the other way, my ex-girlfriend from wayback, my wife really thought we had planned to meet up or something, it was ridiculous, like how can i get away from you people?
I grew up in a small town but it was a beach vacation destination so all sorts of people came to us from all over. It kept things from being boring.
I understood that reference whether you knew you were making it or not...
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Our town was so small there were T-Shirts that said Where the Hell is Tulare CA. That you could by in the bigger towns. I went to a K-8 school, our graduating clasee was fifteen the same fifteen I went through school with. and I can probably name them all still.
You cant buy sex toys in a small town. Townsfolks will talk about you in sunday mass
I live in the bay area of California and cant wait to move away from here and have these small town "problems".
Wow, how sad is it when you read the meme headline and you think...ha sounds like my town... 40 minutes from everything.... The you look at the meme itself.... it's a map from your small town to were everything is... 40 minutes away...?
i used to live in a small town in Pennsylvania and I remember I saw my teachers like everywhere and you could of said "You know Luna?" and everyone would have been like "oh yeah", even if you had a basic name, like mary, grace or Rebecca or something you can literally say their 1st name and everyone knew who they were
You have a houselot under 2 acres? Most people don't leave the keys in the ignition? Talk about small towns all you want
Idk about other places, but the drinking ones definitely do not go woth st. George UT
I have lived in several spots and find it funny how relative the definition of small town. I grew up a couple of miles outside of a town of about 1000 folks where the 50 or so folks in my area, considered it their own town. I live in a town of about 20K now where the folks from the nearest major city feel that I must live in a tent.
Well, I grew up in the french countryside. I was going to high-school in a proper city (25.000) according to my standards. Then I took my wife there, who is from Tokyo. She is still laughing at me to this day...
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I'm from a small farm town that doesn't exist anymore. "If the neighbors are half-a-mile away, it's time to move...they're too close," was the adage that my German Wisconsinite and Scots-Irish Kansan relatives would often say when I was a child. I told my students (at a college in metro LA) this adage for decades...they asked, "Where do you live now?" "In a condo..." was my reply. "Well, no wonder you're so uptight." *smh* -Dr M, in Orange County, CA
When you move to a small town, you're always "the new girl," even after 30 years.
You know you're in a small town when the gas station sells live fishing bait.
I grew up in a biggish city (big enough that some areas are like living in small towns) and you see the same thing. Lived in many small cities as an adult and always had to find someone to translate the local drama so I wouldn't make any faux pa's.
Other than getting stuck behind a horse in a drive through, these all apply. I live here deliberately, too. 😂
The last town I lived in was so small that it had to share a school system with two other neighboring small towns. There was only one restaurant and two small grocery stores among them (none in my town) and if you wanted to go to a different restaurant or grocery store, you had to go to the nearest large town.
Your brother in law denying something happened but the most of the town knows it did happen before you find out. Those up there bring back memories, sometimes I miss that everyone knows what is going on with your life before you do.
I have family that lives in smaller towns, but I live in a...meduimish city...maybe a bit large. The coast of Southern England...👌
We have 1 restaurant 1bank 1 post office approximately 18464478837236264646846800000000000000000000000000000001 fields
When you have more than 5000 people on a town i consider it big because in my county we only have like 5000 in all
I miss the vicious, malicious gossip & slander that you get in a small town...
I'm from a small town, population 700. Recently did a walkthrough of my childhood home, which is up for sale. Shared the story and photos on the town FB page and got dozens of comments from people who remembered me and my family. We moved to a different town FORTY years ago. I LOVE my small town.
Neighborhoods in large cities are just like small towns. I can sit at my desk and hear someone walking down the street and know who it is. You recognize cars by their sound. You know how much people drink by their recycling bin. You know who is having boyfriend/girlfriend problems. You always see your neighbors at the local diner/restaurant/news agent. Everyone knows everyone's business.
Depends how spread out it is. Went to school in a town of 2,000 and it was definitely small.
Load More Replies... Canada is the same as America. It's town or city, or Unincorporated Township if it's super duper ultra tiny and doesn't have it's own services like police or fire department. Maybe a "small" or "large" thrown in for scale, but that's it. It's different all over, but the basics are taht towns are small and cities are big. You place have 2,000 people? Town. 200,000? City. Growing up I never once heard any place here referred to as a village. It goes by population.
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Y'all want small town? Lee NH. No one knows where it is, what it is, not even if they're in it, unless they live there.
As someone from a small town, these stopped being funny about halfway through because I actually relate to all of them.
This is the first thing on Boredpanda in a while that I could really relate to! That being said, I love living in a small town :)
When you are from a farm town of under 60 people. And manure smells like home(true story)
Or when you do your best to go through the next town on the way to Tractor Supply in the morning, so you get the breeze that smells like bacon instead of the evening when the breeze that smells like manure.
Load More Replies... When you can go to the salvage yard and you know who owned most of the junked cars there, you are from a small town.
Many moons ago when I was young I jumped into our pond to save one of our ducks that had a huge tear in her side. My Dad decided to give her stiches( he did great, she went on to live a long health life) . He mentioned it to one of his friends. A few weeks later the story came back around to him that he jumped into the pond to save me and then he gave ME stitches. Gotta love living in a small town.
I flew from England to New York a few years ago, i was halfway up the empire state building and who should be coming down the other way, my ex-girlfriend from wayback, my wife really thought we had planned to meet up or something, it was ridiculous, like how can i get away from you people?
I grew up in a small town but it was a beach vacation destination so all sorts of people came to us from all over. It kept things from being boring.
I understood that reference whether you knew you were making it or not...
Load More Replies... Our town was so small there were T-Shirts that said Where the Hell is Tulare CA. That you could by in the bigger towns. I went to a K-8 school, our graduating clasee was fifteen the same fifteen I went through school with. and I can probably name them all still.
You cant buy sex toys in a small town. Townsfolks will talk about you in sunday mass
I live in the bay area of California and cant wait to move away from here and have these small town "problems".
Wow, how sad is it when you read the meme headline and you think...ha sounds like my town... 40 minutes from everything.... The you look at the meme itself.... it's a map from your small town to were everything is... 40 minutes away...?
i used to live in a small town in Pennsylvania and I remember I saw my teachers like everywhere and you could of said "You know Luna?" and everyone would have been like "oh yeah", even if you had a basic name, like mary, grace or Rebecca or something you can literally say their 1st name and everyone knew who they were
You have a houselot under 2 acres? Most people don't leave the keys in the ignition? Talk about small towns all you want
Idk about other places, but the drinking ones definitely do not go woth st. George UT
I have lived in several spots and find it funny how relative the definition of small town. I grew up a couple of miles outside of a town of about 1000 folks where the 50 or so folks in my area, considered it their own town. I live in a town of about 20K now where the folks from the nearest major city feel that I must live in a tent.
Well, I grew up in the french countryside. I was going to high-school in a proper city (25.000) according to my standards. Then I took my wife there, who is from Tokyo. She is still laughing at me to this day...
Load More Replies... I'm from a small farm town that doesn't exist anymore. "If the neighbors are half-a-mile away, it's time to move...they're too close," was the adage that my German Wisconsinite and Scots-Irish Kansan relatives would often say when I was a child. I told my students (at a college in metro LA) this adage for decades...they asked, "Where do you live now?" "In a condo..." was my reply. "Well, no wonder you're so uptight." *smh* -Dr M, in Orange County, CA
When you move to a small town, you're always "the new girl," even after 30 years.
You know you're in a small town when the gas station sells live fishing bait.
I grew up in a biggish city (big enough that some areas are like living in small towns) and you see the same thing. Lived in many small cities as an adult and always had to find someone to translate the local drama so I wouldn't make any faux pa's.
Other than getting stuck behind a horse in a drive through, these all apply. I live here deliberately, too. 😂
The last town I lived in was so small that it had to share a school system with two other neighboring small towns. There was only one restaurant and two small grocery stores among them (none in my town) and if you wanted to go to a different restaurant or grocery store, you had to go to the nearest large town.
Your brother in law denying something happened but the most of the town knows it did happen before you find out. Those up there bring back memories, sometimes I miss that everyone knows what is going on with your life before you do.
I have family that lives in smaller towns, but I live in a...meduimish city...maybe a bit large. The coast of Southern England...👌
We have 1 restaurant 1bank 1 post office approximately 18464478837236264646846800000000000000000000000000000001 fields
When you have more than 5000 people on a town i consider it big because in my county we only have like 5000 in all
I miss the vicious, malicious gossip & slander that you get in a small town...
I'm from a small town, population 700. Recently did a walkthrough of my childhood home, which is up for sale. Shared the story and photos on the town FB page and got dozens of comments from people who remembered me and my family. We moved to a different town FORTY years ago. I LOVE my small town.
Neighborhoods in large cities are just like small towns. I can sit at my desk and hear someone walking down the street and know who it is. You recognize cars by their sound. You know how much people drink by their recycling bin. You know who is having boyfriend/girlfriend problems. You always see your neighbors at the local diner/restaurant/news agent. Everyone knows everyone's business.
Depends how spread out it is. Went to school in a town of 2,000 and it was definitely small.
Load More Replies... Canada is the same as America. It's town or city, or Unincorporated Township if it's super duper ultra tiny and doesn't have it's own services like police or fire department. Maybe a "small" or "large" thrown in for scale, but that's it. It's different all over, but the basics are taht towns are small and cities are big. You place have 2,000 people? Town. 200,000? City. Growing up I never once heard any place here referred to as a village. It goes by population.
Load More Replies... Y'all want small town? Lee NH. No one knows where it is, what it is, not even if they're in it, unless they live there.
