I would like to know which doper lives in the smallest town. (population wise that is)
I know some dopers don’t live ‘in town’ so that dosen’t really count.
Who lives in a really small town?
I’m not sure what you meant by “doesn’t count” but my mailing address is Mt Pleasant. Population 8027.
Actually we are in the New London school district. Population 1922.
What do I win?
Up until about 9 years ago I lived with my parents in McFarland, Michigan. There were maybe 50 people living within a 1000 foot radius of the bar and gas station. It counts as a town, though. It’s on the map and it has a sign. Lots of little places like that in the U.P. Just down the road was Lathrop, which was even smaller (no store, and the bar closed some time ago).
I am currently living in Oakland, CA. I am making plans to move back to Maine. I hope to find a place in Portland (approximate population - 62,000).
What will probably happen is I’ll be spending some time living in Madawaska (where I grew up), in northern Maine - Population 3,653.
Does that count?
Lifelong resident of the town of Stuyvesant, New York, population 2,178.
Hey, chikki, I should come and visit!
Fowler, Colorado checking in. We’ve got two banks, six churches, two bars, one grocery, four hair salons, two convenience stores, a hardware store, a newspaper, three cafes, a video store and 1,200 people.
Personally, I would not trade it for the world. I have lived in some of the largest or busiest cities in the world, Tokyo, LA, London, Bankok, and some mildly smaller places than those, and hold a couple degrees from some good-sized universities, but honestly, I really am very, very happy now. City types just don’t understand.
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[sup]Now, because I can never resist the impulse to do this when I hear someone say the name of their town followed by its population[/sup]
SAL-ute!
I’m home from college for the summer, and am living in Almond, Wisconsin, pop. about 500. We have a small general store, a gas station, 2 restuarants, 3 taverns, a post office, a K-12 school and a tiny library, and a few (very few) small business run out of people’s homes, hair-cutting places & stuff. Plus potato fields as far as the eye can see.
I hate it. I like small towns, but this is just too fricking small. There is zero diversity and if you want to actually do anything it’s at least a 30 min. drive away. If I could afford my own apt. I would’ve liked to stay in Ashland, WI, where I go to school (pop. around 10,000)
When I was younger I lived in an even smaller town not far from here called Buena Vista. I don’t think it even has a recorded population, but I’m sure it’s less than 100.
So, y’all live in towns with smaller populations than mine, but you have STORES? Come ON! I think you should get pop. points for having businesses! Stuyvesant has a post office, a general store which is currently closed, a church and a half (the “half” is because the building is currently closed), and a garage whose owner more or less refuses to work on anything except his own ancient Jeep. We have to drive ten miles to get milk and bread from a convenience store. A pox on your fully-equipped towns! A pox, I say!
I can’t believe I forgot to mention the farms. Almost everybody either lives or works on a farm, and at the very least most people (except for the trailer park residents who happen to be my neighbors) keep a small vegetable garden and maybe some chickens or sheep.
jack batty, i been to madawaska, a million years ago. i remember a really big lake, half in canada, and going to get spring water on an august morning and seeing ice. do i remember its the northernmost town in maine?
Hold up there, Paul Bunyon, your post is only about 33% on the money.
Madawaska is indeed the northern most town in Maine. It isn’t the northern most point. If you look at a map, there are two “humps” at the top of the state. Madawaska is on the right hump. The left hump goes further north but there ain’t nothing there but trees and moose.
I don’t know of any lake that’s half in Canada. The border of Maine and New Brunswick is set by the St. John River, for a long way. There are lakes, but they are inland from the border.
There is no way you saw ice in August unless you had your head in a freezer. Or you were indeed there one million years ago (that was the Ice Age, wasn’t it?).
It doesn’t get much lower than about 55 degrees in until the fall.
Barrington, New Hampshire, pop. closing in on 6,000 which is a thousand more than when we moved here in 97’ I don’t think any of the main routes have been without recent construction.
We have a country store(ie. “general” buy very old-fashioned) butcher’s shop, * a *gas station, One of the four Christmas Doves (very cool but way over priced for most of the stuff) a couple of banks, a hardware store, a store that sells only wicker baskets(I’m sure they rake in the money) a furniture store and, believe it or not, a four screen movie theater. I’ve never understood how we ended up with a movie theater, but not a grocery store.
Hey, Jack? When Maine 8th graders responded to a question on glaciers, at least 10% of them think glaciers in Maine are a yearly occurance. Scary, isn’t it.
I currently live in Pfeifer (pronounced PIFER for the love of God or else the locals will get upset), Kansas, population 26. We have a post office (which, by the way, only stays open from 7:00 am to 11:00 am) and a guy runs a small auto repair business out of his garage. We have to drive ten miles to get gas and twenty miles for groceries. I am surrounded on all sides by goats and sheep…I didn’t count the goats and sheep in the pop. count. do you think I should?
When I graduated from high school it was with 114 others in a town with a population of around 1200. That town has since grown to 1600 (in 12 years) and now has an elementary, high, AND junior high school. Foley is 8 miles away.
The town I relate to, however, is Gilman, MN. It has a Catholic church that seats @800 (but I was raised Lutheran and went to church in Foley in my younger years), one municipal liquor store, a VFW, a 3.2 beer joint, a general store/body shop, a post office, a soft ball field, and a creamery (although the creamery is outside of city limits and I’m not sure that counts). It’s three miles up the road and has a population of 103, I think.
Would kill to be back in DC. :\
Where I live now, Frimley, Surrey, England has 5600 people. I’ve also live in Mt. Pleasant Iowa (hey justwannano is Van Allen Elementary still there?) and Kellerton Iowa that had about 200 people.
Wow, someone has me beat. Well, the Rustic Tavern (the bar which constitutes exactly 50% of the notable buildings in McFarland) has (or had, can’t remember if they got bought out recently) jello wrestling every weekend. Hah, beat that.
IMHO, it’s not a small town unless the fanciest restaurant around has a big sign out front that says EATS.
The fanciest restaurant in the Madawaska area has more parking spaces for snowmobiles than for cars. And while the sign doesn’t say “Eats” it is merely one of those lit boards with the plastic letters and wheels and a trailer hitch.