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» pink101 - Sounds Great To Me.

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Could you live on an island, with 3,500 other people?
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Could I ever!
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» Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen - Sounds Great To Me.

In response to Sounds Great To Me. posted by pink101:

Have you ever lived in a small community?

I love it, but it does have its drawbacks. If you speed or take driftwood home from the beach or cut someone off, you'll get caught by someone you know! (that's probably good if you have teens). You never go out without seeing someone you know - at the library, store, pharmacy, post office, coffee shop - and it's mostly good except for when you haven't showered in a week and are wearing your grubbiest clothes and don't feel like talking to anyone but your cat.

I work Bylaw, and am learning some pretty interesting things about my fellow islanders.......living in a small community, whether it's an island or small town, definitely requires a different mindset. Sometimes I miss the anonymity of a city, and really enjoy wandering the streets of downtown Vancouver where I don't know anyone and nobody knows me!

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» pink101 - Sounds Great To Me.

In response to Sounds Great To Me. posted by LauriePK:
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I hear that.
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I spent half of my childhood up to age 14 in a rural community living with my grandparents.
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They were retired and my grandfather built a cottage at a lake next to a religious facility that was a summer campground for a state wide denomination of churches. He had a small truck farm and raised chickens. We were the only ones on that side of the lake in the fall, winter and spring. It was about a mile and a half to a country school where I attended with farm children. I spent half my time there and the other half with my family in a city of 100,000 people.
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You are absolutely correct about everyone knowing about you and your business. Other than reading Zane Grey and Edgar Rice Burroughs, knowing what the farmer was doing a mile down the road was it. We went to a small town for our needs on Saturday afternoon when everyone else was in a small town of probably two or three thousand at the very most.
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I was able to roam the country side through the woods, all around the lake in my little 8' row boat, and explore the fields where the Native Americans had live a hundred and fifty years earlier.
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And, yup, there was something great about getting back to the city with my own parents the other half of the year. If I had to choose, I would take the rural life in the blink of an eye.
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Once on my way home from school when I was about seven years old, I found a kite unattended but tied to a fence down the road a piece from a farm house. Apparently someone tied it there for whomever might want it. I untied it and took it home with me. When I got home, my grandmother already knew about the kite. I had to walk the mile back to tie it back to the fence. It belonged to the kid who lived in that farm house. You couldn't get away with anything.
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:)
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