Ok this weeks blog I’m going to talk about something that I hope some people will comment on and be interested to find out more. Here it goes my questions is why are people from small towns such as my hometown of Metamora so nice then when you get to the city not even a big city people are a lot more to themselves. I’m not trying to dis anyone or say they are mean but they truly are less interested in other people if that makes sense I’m just carious. For example, when I’m driving through the back roads and sometimes in town even if I know them or not I wave and they wave back. I mean that’s just what happens. Then when you get to the city, you wave at someone and they just look at you funny. Another, example would be when you are driving you are usually don’t go that fast in a small town even though you have a lot of space to go fast we don’t. Then in the city such as like chi town or New York where there is little space to go fast people fly. I just don’t get it why is there that big of a difference. Then one last example I would like to put out there would be why is there a lot less crime in small towns. I know there is some but like I always leave my car unlocked at home and no one has ever broke into it and I leave my ipod and everything in it. I know this may sound like a dumb idea to people but really nothing ever happens. When I dated this girl from Bloomington she always took my ipod out and everything and made me lock the doors because she says people will steal them. So, what do you think?
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Hey man I know exactly where youre coming from when you say that people from small towns are more generous than people from big cities. I may not have the answers to your questions but I too have examples of people from small towns are more generous than people from big cities. I have to drive through back roads that go through several small isolated towns in order to get where I go to go hunting and 4wheel. Traveling through on these roads I get people waving constantly. Filling up my truck and ATV in Lewistown, some random elderly guy came up and started a 5 minute convo over basically nothing but it was just a nice thing to do while we waited for our vehicles to fill up. I will be on roads out in the middle of no where past the town of Rushville, out there is what you call middle of nowhere since there is no town for 30 miles, but I still get peole waving and I will wave back. People from the bigger cities, in my mind are to themselves. I have 7 cousins all from Chicago. 5 of the 7 are perfect examples of the whole "ME" aspect of people from the bigger cities. I dont have to travel to bigger cities just to see how people act. I just wait for my cousins to come and visit. I have more examples that I have witnessed about the differences between the two but Im not going to bore you with a super long comment.
ReplyDeleteI come from Washington so I understand what you are saying! My family lives in Metamora and my grandpa farms there so I understand the safety and friendliness of a small town life. My dad grew up in Metamora and he always says how small town people are much more friendly due to the "wave factor" as I would like to refer to it as. We wave to people or smile at them in the car and usually receive a pleasant response but then in bigger places like Peoria, it is harder to get that response. When it comes to safety, I think the reason why small towns have a smaller percent of crime, it is because in small towns, many times, word gets around and crime would ripple like this as well. In bigger cities, crime happens and the next day it is forgotten about because something else happens. I am not saying that this is what always happens but I do see a trend. Nice Blog :)
ReplyDeleteI went to college in a town about the size of Deercreek (Upland, Indiana). It was friendly, and every person I passed on the street, sidewalk, etc. looked up and said, "hi." During my freshman year, I visited my best friend in Chicago at Loyola University. The city was...closed. People kept to themselves and were suspicious. The differences were shocking.
ReplyDeleteWhen I lived in Peoria for a few years, I took a completely different approach to my personal space/safety than I do in Washington.
Why? I think part of it is our perceptions which may or may not be accurate.