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To me a small town definition also depends on how close you are to a big town or a city. If you are 30 mins away from a 50,000+ population, you are just a suburb of that city. If the city is bigger, like 200,000+ then even an hour away is still probably just a suburb. So my daughter lives in a smallish town of 3800 and they have a McDonald's, Subway, a DQ grill, a brewery, a high end steakhouse, and a cafe. They are only 10 mins from my city of about 100,000. Now my Dad's store was in a town of 2800 but they have more franchises and restaurants, probably 3 times as many, but they are the biggest town about 2 hours in any direction.
It's also funny the bar ratio sometimes. My dad grew up in a town of about 6000 that had 14 bars. Jimmy Buffett wrote a song about it Livingston Saturday Night.
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