msmith1199 wrote: I live in a small little town in California of about 80,000 residents. By California standards, we live in the sticks and most people have never heard of it. But if my small town was located in many other states it would be as big as the State capital. We'd be the big city.
You live in a metropolis compared to the Calif town I live in (4,400 residents)! Technically, we're not a town but an unincorporated area of the county. We don't have a mayor or town council and no police or fire departments. We depend on the county for those services.
In the last year there was an attempt to incorporate but it was defeated.
There's an elementary school here for K-6th but after that the kids get bussed to the big city down the road, population 38,000!
I was sailing along the road to try and make the first ferry off the small island I was living on, when out of the dark came the flashing police lights pulling me over. I knew I'd been a bit heavy on the pedal, so expected the usual 'sign here' speech - but instead the cop said "Mary said to tell you your new cheques are in at the bank." Apparently the new cop was her boyfriend, and I hadn't been into the bank for a few days, so she told him to watch out for me! Yup. Small town!
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In our town, up until about eight years ago - when there was a fire, we used the phone chain to contact the volunteers to come fight the fire. At the time, we didn't have an ambulance, one of the volunteers would take the person in their own personal vehicle. Today, we still only have volunteers for fire department and ambulance.
The school bus drivers know where to drop off the kids after school by seeing whose yard the car is parked in.
When you want to know why the police are in town, you call the "old" lady that lives in the mobile home community and she can tell you where, why and what happened.
When your child gets in trouble at school, you always know before they get in home and you didn't get a call from a school official. Another mother calls you.
The town always knows if you didn't go to work because someone sees your car in the driveway and tells at the local diner.
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