Small town syndrom

[Mcupobob]

So anyone here on the escapist live in a romote town miles away from everthing and anything? If you do how do you cope with the lack of people and nowhere to go? Having small town syndrom or (s.t.s) I try and cope with it through the internet to talk to vairous people and cultures (you guys) and hanging out with my best friend who incedently is literally the closest person to my age around here and lucky lives only a mile away.

 

[Weaver]

I grew up in a small town but now I moved to a mid sized city. Still not too much to do here, but a hell of a lot more than my shit ass hometown. I coped with growing up in a small town as follows:

1) Video Games. On a rainy day that was all I could fucking do as a kid, there was nothing else to do. This is probably why I became such a gamer

2) Books. I love books as much as games, reading a good book is a far greater experience than a movie IMO.

3) Friends. I enjoy hanging out with my friends. Even if we just sit in a park and walk around, it was fun.

4) Alcohol. Most of my friends started drinking before the legal age of 19, because in reality there was so very little else to do.

5) Play an instrument. I picked up guitar, this was a great escape from my regular activities and let me play songs for my friends. Once we tried to start a band, it didn't work. This also proved to be great during power outages. I remember one summer we had about a 3 day brown out, I spent roughly 3 days playing my guitar.

6) Other hobbies. I got into warhammer 40k and found painting my models to be a lovely distraction. I would become absorbed in the model and absorbed in painting it. I still do it and sometimes I look back at the models and wonder how I even painted the damn things. It's like I'm a different person when painting.

 

[Private Custard]

I always thought that small town syndrome was when small towns filled with chavs feel they have to emulate what they think goes on in the big cities by drinking, fighting and generally being idiotic knob-jockeys.

Something about small things generally being more aggressive than their larger counterparts.

To answer your small town syndrome question. I live in a village in the middle of the English countryside. I don't really socialise, so I surf the web, clean my motorcycle and occasionally go to the local pub, a proper local pub with a brace of pheasants hanging by the fire, a chatty landlady and brass things that usually hang on a shire horses leather bits!

Proper ale, the cure for a dull evening!

 

[Eliam_Dar]

When I was younger I did, in fact at one point I was living in a "town" that only had 4 houses, a small military outpost and a school, and that was it. My parents had to go to the city every month to buy groceries that had to last a month.

I broke my left arm there and trust me when I say that it hurts like hell to go to a hospital that is 100km away, on unpaved roads.

 

[Sleekgiant]

I quite literally have this site....that is all. My town is absolutely terrible; there is absolutely zero places to go and socialize with anyone

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

There's pretty much old people in my area and very few people are outside walking unless school's let out.

 

[Marter]

I was in a small town for a summer. I liked it, it was a nice town, and everyone seemed to know each other.

 

[Private Custard]

I was in a small town for a summer. I liked it, it was a nice town, and everyone seemed to know each other.

Yep, you'd be amazed what people know about you! I was chatting to the landlady at my local the other night, and even though I socialise with no-one in the village, she seemed to think that everyone know's a lot about me.

Sure I make a lot of noise when I ride through and I talk quite loudly when I'm drunk, but there was a definite air of 'wicker man' about what she was saying!

 

[arcticphoenix95]

i lived in palmer, alaska for the first 12 years. it was REALLY small. 0nly 500-1500 people.

 

[Hollock]

I live in a relativly small town, but it's in between a two slightly bigger towns, so when I'm bored I usually go to one of them.

 

[SmartIdiot]

How do I put this...

Even after getting a car the nearest city was a 3 hour drive away. The nearest noteworthy city was a 5 hour drive away. Can't drink and drive so I had to stick to the local scumhole if I wanted a place to hang out and have a beer, which was full of alcoholics(I mean proper alcoholics, not 'that guy who likes his drink'), druggies and people whose sheer mind blowing stupidity outweighs anything stupid that you can imagine. Deadbeats, dead-end jobs and rotting minds all stabbing one another in the back because it's the only thing in their pathetic lives that makes them feel better. A wasteland in the middle of what would otherwise be paradise.

How did I cope? I didn't. I moved. All of 700 miles. So far it's working.

 

[Spaghetti]

Currently I'm struggaling with small town life. It's got a whacking great big university in it, so you would assume that there would be something to do, but noooo.
I've spent most of my time playing video games, watching movies and doing some writing. If it weren't for my university work, I'd go insane.
There's a decent sized town near by, but I don't have a car and the public transport sucks.

How did I cope? I didn't. I moved. All of 700 miles. So far it's working.

I've come up with a similar solution...except it'll be about 3,000 miles by the time I'm finished.

 

[Wadders]

I most certainly do! I live in Shropsire, one of the most rural regions in England. My village (Priest Weston) is fucking tiny, there's barely a couple of hundred people here, if that.

The nearest town is 7 miles away, and the nearest big town with a decent mall, cinema etc. is 18 miles away.

I cope by going on walks/ cycle rides in the lovely countryside around my house, driving to see mates, playing games, watching films, shooting clays, surfing the intarwebz and going to the pub a lot

I only live there about half the year though, as I'm currently at university, so a lot of my summer holidays will (hopefully) be spent working and earning money, which should fill in the long dreary days.

the local pub, a proper local pub with a brace of pheasants hanging by the fire, a chatty landlady and brass things that usually hang on a shire horses leather bits!

Proper ale, the cure for a dull evening!

Hmmm, sounds like my local too! Proper ol' Country pubs are the best kind

 

[Yureina]

My neighborhood is filled with retired people or little kids. I think i'm the only 20-something on my street.

Hence why I am online as often as I am.

 

[The Bum]

I always thought that small town syndrome was when small towns filled with chavs feel they have to emulate what they think goes on in the big cities by drinking, fighting and generally being idiotic knob-jockeys.

Something about small things generally being more aggressive than their larger counterparts.

To answer your small town syndrome question. I live in a village in the middle of the English countryside. I don't really socialise, so I surf the web, clean my motorcycle and occasionally go to the local pub, a proper local pub with a brace of pheasants hanging by the fire, a chatty landlady and brass things that usually hang on a shire horses leather bits!

Proper ale, the cure for a dull evening!

I MUST MOVE THERE!

Me and like 3 other guys where the only pepole under 40 in my town so i became the "guy with older frends" but on the bright side i never got picked on for fear that my frends would hunt'em down.