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Originally Posted by ilovetv
And as for the comment about one's hometown of 16,000 where there is no such rudeness and people know everyone from cradle to grave, what I'd say is this: My experience with small town life (I grew up in it) is that yes, everyone knows you and knows every last tidbit of gossip about you that could possibly be known......and it gets spread behind your back! "Rudeness" comes in many forms.
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ilovetv, we've lived in small communities of less than 1000 and in cites of several million. In my experience folks are folks. Even the cities are divided into small neighborhoods. These neighborhoods might have several thousand residents but they're often just as close as the small towns. In all those places I have yet to see one where gossip travels faster than in our neighborhood in TV. That's not a negative. These same neighbors who gossip at the pool, mail station and on the golf courses are also the ones who will be there to help you when you need a hand. That's just living in a community. You can't escape that. No matter where we've lived, most people are very nice. In some areas they are more friendly than others but basically they are good, decent people. I still say that something happens in TV when people are driving or in a supermarket. There seems to be a lot of well controlled anger which comes out, in these situations especially. I notice this more in TV more than any place we've lived.