It amazes me of all the silly descriptions of a small town by ignorant people on here. No, I dont live in one, but I did for a while. They are not all the same. Yes, some are poor, but some are also very affluent (Lake Zurich, Illinois for example).

A small town is the anithesis of a big city, which is not necessarily a bad thing. A small town is a community where people are a generally friendly, laid back folk, and where everybody knows almost everybody there. If you stop and ask for directions, the person giving you the directions will probably turn it into a conversation. The community is probably a speed trap, but the police who give you a speeding ticket are often known and called by their first name. You are usually not afraid to unlock your doors (although I wouldn't do it). Most businesses in town are family-owned ma-and-pa stores threatened by the Walmart nearby, which is probably the community's largest employer. The Mayor probably has another job on the side. You also know your'e in a small town because the people raise a stink over a new business coming in, fearing that it will create "traffic congestion." Some small towns can be suburbs or exurbs of a large meropolitan area.

A little community of hopeless squalor mythologized Norman Rockwell-style as "friendly!" (translation: nosey) and "a great place to raise kids!" (translation: drive by shootings are written up as accidental discharges of a firearm in the local paper). Pits of desperate poverty, despair, racism, dysfunction, ignorance, sleaze and drunken failure.

Seguin Texas. Seguin is a small town that is overlooked by near large towns like San Antonio or Houston. The term 'Small Town' is a name that was given to Seguin within recent years due to how Seguin's growth is laughable compared to San Antonio's growth rate, and how many Segiun citizens have a thirst to be someone in life but it is fairly difficult at Seguin.

Actually if you look deep enough you'll find that the sole reason of why we call Seguin "Small Town" is because of San Antonio. The way San Antonio is growing is outstanding and while Seguin's growth rate is decent it is nothing compared to San Antonio's. Which makes Seguin live in San Antonio's shadow.

A town that sucks in a state that blows. Consist's of old people, rap kids, prep kids and punk/goth/emo kids. Old people suck, the rap kids are either fat losers or hang with the prep kids, goth/emo/punk kids all like green day and Good Charlotte and have no taste for rock music what so ever. Then there is a group of dirty, lazy, stoner kids that smoke weed and listen to REAL rock music (ex: Grunge, Punk, Indie, Metal) and aren't really sure if they are punks or hippies. By the way there is 80 kids per grade and about 3500 people in the town. IT SUCKS THERE!!! (Example of real bands: Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedy's, White Stripes, Vaselines, Black Sabbath, Lead Zepplin) I'm sure some of you relate to me.

When someone has lived for so long in a small town that they form a sense of entitlement to themselves and act as if there isn't a relevant world outside of their town.

Someone with small-town syndrome usually is majorly concerned with gossip and events only happening with people in their town and let their life revolve around such meaningless rumors. They act as if life is high school. Parents/Adults and children all engage in cliquey behavior.

People with small-town syndrome usually don't realise they act this way, and may be insulted if pointed out.

People with small-town syndrome may have lots of trouble adjusting to life in the real world (wherever they move to out of the comfort of their family/friends also from same town)

Small town syndrome is when people's thoughts are limited by a mental box, the less knowledge of the outside world, the smaller the box. This often happens when people do not venture past their back door.

if you live in a small town,your afraid of being in a realationship because your scared your reputation cause everyone knows everthing about you, which is called small town effect.

A phenomenon that occurs in small towns with very little to do. The person feels bored and isolated and starts doing self destructive things like getting drunk, being promiscuous, and doing lots of drugs to feel a sense of excitement that they can't otherwise feel in their lives.

A police officer that, instead of actually helping society and arresting people for actual crimes, like to to a list of annoying things because of their lack of actual things to respond to or stop; such as
1. sit by areas where the speed limit drops significantly with a radar gun to get you for 5mph over cause you didn't slow down quick enough
2.harass teenagers while they are just walking around not doing anything wrong asking them what they are up to.
3.not respond to burglary calls (My friend and his dad had this happen)
4. Act like town curfew means "immediate quarantine" and love to fine you up the ass for breaking this even if your standing 50 feet away from your yard.
5. think skateboarding/longboarding is a serious crime, although it can be annoying they take the rules to far on this one.

I don't have problems with authority, just bored fat pricks with a badge and tazers.