Anyone ever move from a good-sized city to a small town?
We are thinking about moving from Denver to a seaside town of about 15,000.
What are the nicest changes?
What are the biggest shocks, concerns, adjustments?
Anything unforseen?
We do have a 14 year old who is about to enter high school.
(We figured the move would only be worse if we made it later, during the middle of high school.)
Just be sure they don’t have a “secret society” like the ones in Harvest Home and Wicker Man and that there aren’t any old people in the community with special powers.
Since it’s a seaside town, I bet there are some good ghost stories that aren’t altogether false.
JK. I’m jealous!
It depends on the location of the small town. If it is a “bedroom” community for a larger city, or if it has a significant local source of culture and income, such as a college, it will be different than an isolated small town.
For example, college towns will be more likely to have a better local public school system and more cultural events. Isolated small towns can have surprising levels of poverty and general social problems.
We lived in a small college town in western PA for about 5 years. I loved the beautiful scenery, the quiet, and, if we had stayed we could have bought a huge old house with a big yard for a fraction of what we will have to pay in San Diego.
The biggest concerns to us were lack of good local medical care, lack of cultural diversity, and bad public schools–the college was large enough to support cultural events, but not to support a good school system.