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Topic: How small is your town?
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Philbird
Knowflake Posts: 3396
From: Here, there and everywhere.
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted July 05, 2004 08:39 PM
 
My town is sooooo smalllll, our newspaper is only 6 pages thick! Onec a week they print all the crimes that happened that week. (about a quarter of a page for the whole county) Our newspaper has off on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. They print such articles as "Little Jesus turned seven today, someday he would like to play professional baseball".
"Mrs. Hernandez turned 90 today and has been a member of Our Lady of Prepetual Suffering Church for her entire life. Her favorite food is watermelon". It's not quite like The N.Y. Times!
And your town??? IP: Logged |
Nephthys
Moderator Posts: 3800
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted July 05, 2004 09:22 PM
Hey P-Bird!Wow, interesting subject!!! I had to do a search on Google to find out my population is 56063. I wish I lived in the country, near a small town, with a farm or ranch, rolling green grass plains or hills, and a lot of trees. I am not a "city" person at all. I live about 30 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge of San Francisco. We have a lot of trees but it's a suburb. Google gave me this statistics page, very interesting; San Rafael Population & Demographics Oh, our newspaper is thin, 4 sections. IP: Logged |
BloodRedMoon
Knowflake Posts: 932
From: somewhere out there
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 05, 2004 09:34 PM
10,103,000 people------------------
you came one night, turned my tide
blood red moon that you are IP: Logged |
Isis
Knowflake Posts: 1922
From: CA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted July 06, 2004 02:10 AM
70K------------------
“The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.” Seneca IP: Logged |
Yang
Knowflake Posts: 2296
From: A temporary home
Registered: May 2004
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posted July 06, 2004 03:14 AM
Hey Nethphys-what site did you find out your population?
I would also love to find out mine.
Thank you
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Nackie
Knowflake Posts: 561
From: Germany
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted July 06, 2004 08:16 AM
I live in a suburb of Cologne, about 79,000 people. Cologne is just shy of 1,000,000.Nackie IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted July 06, 2004 09:37 AM
I live between two villages. One is my address with 474 souls and the one with my phone number about 775 souls year around . Both swell in the summer with tourists I was born and raised in the village of 775 and still consider it my 'home village'.  juniperb  ------------------
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Nephthys
Moderator Posts: 3800
From: California
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted July 06, 2004 12:49 PM
Yang,I put a link there, I think it's Areaconnect.com. IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted July 06, 2004 01:17 PM
Stats of my little village. xxxx replaces the villages name  (population 2000): 483, Est. population in July 2002: 474 (-1.9% change)
Males: 237 (49.1%), Females: 246 (50.9%) Elevation: 621 feet County: xxxxx Land area: 0.7 square miles Zip code: xxxxx Median resident age: 33.1 years
Median household income: $38,125 (year 2000)
Median house value: $84,700 (year 2000) New: xxxxx, MI residents, houses, and apartments details Races in xxxx: White Non-Hispanic (96.5%)
Two or more races (1.9%)
Hispanic (1.0%)
Other race (1.0%)
American Indian (0.8%)
(Total can be greater than 100% because Hispanics could be counted in other races) Ancestries: Dutch (35.4%), German (22.4%), English (6.8%), Irish (5.8%), Polish (3.7%), French (3.7%).
For population 25 years and over in xxxxx High school or higher: 89.4%
Bachelor's degree or higher: 16.4%
Graduate or professional degree: 2.0%
Unemployed: 6.7%
Mean travel time to work: 22.0 minutes
For population 15 years and over in xxxxx village Never married: 21.8%
Now married: 62.6%
Separated: 1.4%
Widowed: 6.1%
Divorced: 8.1%
0.0% Foreign born
Nearest city with pop. 50,000+: Saginaw, MI (150.0 miles, pop. 61,799). Nearest city with pop. 200,000+: Milwaukee, WI (236.9 miles, pop. 596,974). Nearest city with pop. 1,000,000+: Chicago, IL (284.5 miles, pop. 2,896,016).
Industries providing employment: Manufacturing (24.4%), Educational,health and social services (21.0%), Arts,entertainment,recreation,accommodation and food services (15.1%).
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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
LittleLadyLeo
Knowflake Posts: 183
From: New Franklin, MO, USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 07, 2004 08:26 PM
NF, MO: population 1,145. No newspaper, no grocery store. Main Street is one block of businesses. The bank, flower/antique shop, Senior Center, South Howard County Historical Society (the old Masonic Lodge-Eastern Star buidling), a heating/cooling repair shop, post office, City Hall/Police Station (no jail in town), meat locker, funeral home, and laundry mat. One convenience store (Casey's) and the beauty shop is only open limited hours Wed, Fri, and Sat.
For most of the basic things we go across the river (about two miles) to Boonville. It's 1/2 an hour to Columbia, 2 hours to KC, 2 1/2 to Saint Louis, 3 to Springfield.
NF is an old farming town with a lot of retired railroaders. The MKT (Katy) Trail runs through the edge of town. Just outside of town was the end of the Boone's Trail, the Santa Fe Trail started in Franklin (just down the hill in the flood plain), and the Lewis and Clark Trail runs through the area. Hence "New Franklin - Where the four trails meet." Also, hometown of country singer Sara Evans.I haven't lived here all my life, and I don't want to live here the rest of my life, but I've been here over 20 years so I guess it's home.  LLL IP: Logged |
juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted July 07, 2004 09:01 PM
LLL, I love Sara Evans  Can I ask why you don`t wish to stay in your lovely sounding town? juniperb ------------------
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
Philbird
Knowflake Posts: 3396
From: Here, there and everywhere.
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted July 07, 2004 09:34 PM
Interesting LLL,
So I guess you are also hard up for some spiritual literature. We may as well not have a newspaper any way, Most of the paper is taken up by ads for the paper- "Buy us, we really don't have anything important to say, but we do have a press". I'm in the desert, we actually have a two foot wide..creek? they call The San Pedro RIVER!
Later!
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LittleLadyLeo
Knowflake Posts: 183
From: New Franklin, MO, USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 07, 2004 09:35 PM
juniperb, You want the long or short version? Actually, there are multiple reasons, like "I love my family. Especially when they don't come walking in my front door whenever they like." Though, as a single parent I would be lost without their love and support. The main reason at this time, though, is the riverboat casino on the other side of the river. NF has really gone downhill in terms of its citizenry in just the last two years. The drug problem is getting worse, the noise and public disturbances are on the rise, and children being allowed to run wild is getting on my nerves. I've always known that I belonged someplace else, but I moved quite a bit as a kid (my dad is a minister) and when I became a mother I wanted to give to my son what I never had - permanence. I don't plan to up and leave anytime soon, but I know that one day NF will not be home anymore.My sister was in band, choir, drama, and cheerleading with Sara in High School. I don't remember her too kindly, but I was the younger brat sister who was dragged along by a very involved mother to music and drama contests and annoyed everyone to the best of my ability.  Sara was two years ahead of me in school, so I really didn't know her well. Her mom Pat, though, is a sweetheart. She still drives a school bus for the district, and though my son walks to school she always talks to him and asks how my family is. Sara and her husband Craig recently bought a house just outside of town so we may have more "celebrity sightings" in our little burgh. And I may hate to admit it, but Sara is good. I don't usually like female singers (so many of them have voices that literally hurt my ears)but I can listen to Sara without cringing, and I adore her latest single, "Suds in the Bucket." Blessings to you. LLL IP: Logged |
LibraSparkle
Knowflake Posts: 6034
From: Vancouver USA
Registered: May 2004
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posted July 07, 2004 11:12 PM
Vancouver Population: 143560
Male Population: 70644
Female Population: 72916
Households: 56628
Median Age: 33
Average Household Size: 2.5
This is from the 2000 census. This little city is growing rapidly.
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LighTgrEEn
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Registered: Jun 2004
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posted July 08, 2004 07:29 PM
The small city I live in (outside of Los Angeles) has a population of 194973. It is not that small, i think??? ha ha IP: Logged |
lalalinda
Moderator Posts: 3291
From: nevada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted July 08, 2004 09:33 PM
so small (under 10,000) that the newspaper is free. And if you die you make the front page. And its weekly.
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LibraSparkle
Knowflake Posts: 6034
From: Vancouver USA
Registered: May 2004
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posted July 08, 2004 10:46 PM
Lightgreen,I grew up in a small city outside LA ... Long Beach. Went to Wilson High. Is that close to you? IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 25287
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted July 08, 2004 10:49 PM
Can I use that material? "I come from a small town. Does anyone else come from a small town? My town is so small that the daily newspaper is a weekly. And it's free. And when you die, you make the front page." ------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Randall
Webmaster Posts: 25287
From: Columbus, GA USA
Registered: Nov 2000
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posted July 09, 2004 05:20 PM
I know you were being serious, LLL--it's just that it sounded like a good comedy skit (if said in the right environment).  ------------------
"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged |
Irish Eyes
Knowflake Posts: 461
From: PA,USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 09, 2004 09:19 PM
I keep telling her the same thing Randell! Although, I would like to add "white trash in trailers setting off bottle rockets on the 5th of July, cuz they have no calenders and they had to pawn the t.v. to buy tabacco...ect..."Needless to say I am a city girl. I did graduate High School in Liberal MO...pop.638 my husband and I were 2 of the 26 grads that year. LLL-
I love you and New Franklin...but I couldn't help yeself. IP: Logged |
LittleLadyLeo
Knowflake Posts: 183
From: New Franklin, MO, USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 09, 2004 10:50 PM
I see you made it back to the big city Irish. I just want to remind everyone that without small towns and the rural population everyone here would starve to death (thank God for hick farmers!) AND you city folks would have no comedy material to make you feel better about yourselves.  Seriously, I don't mind the convenience and culture offered by larger towns, I just don't want to live there. I don't have to lock my car doors and I can leave my things out in the yard all night without worrying about it being stolen (like my brand new lawn mower!)I enjoy walking around town in the evening and being greeted by people sitting on their front porches or others out walking. I don't have to listen to sirens all night long. I can hear the crickets and locusts as the sun sets. And in the fall, during deer season, the smell of the locker smoking meat is glorious. (For those of you who are vegetarians I do not wish to offend you with this.) People still ride their horses into town, and even if you don't know someone personally you say hi.
I admit I'm rather old fashioned, and maybe a little "hickish," but I'll take being in the middle of nowhere any day. Blessings to all.
LLL
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juniperb
Knowflake Posts: 6830
From: Blue Star Kachina
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted July 09, 2004 11:08 PM
We, so far, seem to live in the smallest village LLL, we are kindred souls! Of course it would be a 7 mile walk to go into town & greet the townsfolk I do ride in horseback when I get the opportunity tho. I love going to bed with the doors wide open; the security of this little burgh is priceless. I had asked about your wanting to leave because that is the normal experience around here. We all go off for years at a time but always return for various reasons. I believe it has a Karmic overtone somehow. I took my time away to experience the city, the life and times and ended up right back where I started from. There`s no place like home.  If you noticed our population, the 2004 cattle census was just released and there`s over 10 times the amount of cows than people here. MMMoooooooove over Detroit juniperb ------------------
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ~James Herriot IP: Logged |
LittleLadyLeo
Knowflake Posts: 183
From: New Franklin, MO, USA
Registered: Apr 2004
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posted July 09, 2004 11:19 PM
At one time it was hogs around here. I guess it still is, but there are fewer family farmers, as seems to be the national trend. Most of the small farmers have moved away from running large amounts of livestock and are putting most of themselves into crops. Corn and soybeans mainly, though we still have some tobacco growers out in the county along the river. We have a number of sod farms now too. After the Flood of '93 the bottoms became nutrient rich so I guess we can honestly say we grow good grass around here.  Honestly, though, juniper, there's nothing quite like the smell of manure floating into town on a hot summer morning, is there? Blessings LLL IP: Logged |
Philbird
Knowflake Posts: 3396
From: Here, there and everywhere.
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted July 09, 2004 11:44 PM
Hey Irish Eyes!
I grew up in Bechtelsville. Or maybe you know Boyertown and Zern's Farmer's Market.
Gilbertsville? IP: Logged |
lalalinda
Moderator Posts: 3291
From: nevada
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted July 09, 2004 11:46 PM
You're funny Randall,
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