People talk about the charm of small town life but this is one of the reasons I don't find it so charming. Everyone knows everyone's business or feels they need to know it. It's tough to have some privacy. Everyone will only meet you if you're in the same level of the social pecking order.

While I was married to a small town girl, she moved to the big city. I could never live where she grew up. Small towns are for retirees and people who are already married. For them it's bliss. For the rest of us it isn't.

Not really. The prospect of dating in this small town, impossible. One bit of irony is that I found exactly what I was looking for (intelligent life in a small town), and God's laughing his ether ass off.