... but what do folks do for fun in small town middle America.
I've lived in a few of those places. You have to be more responsible for your own entertainment than ever!
Some of it is the same everywhere:
- 500 digital channels and nothing to watch.
- Four billion websites and nothing to read.
- Libraries everywhere without the books you want.
- Plenty of stores with nothing you need.
- Lots of places to go dancing and [-]get drunk, meet hot chicks, and get into trouble[/-] socialize.
- Gripe about the government (although in small towns you might also
be the government) and the corrupt politicians (this too).
Some of it is different:
- Recreate on a nearby body of water-- boat, water ski, fishing, sailing, diving, even surfing.
- Hiking, camping.
- Sports. Lots and lots of sports in community/workplace leagues.
- Clubs. Lots & lots of clubs with activities like building or crafting things, playing games, discussing books, or stock investing.
- Attending sporting events of minor league, college, and high-school teams. Be shocked with disbelief that people would pay $40/ticket for a sporting event.
- Maintain and operate your property. Now that you're out of the big city, you can actually spread out on some land, build a bigger house (or not), and acquire some serious diesel-powered [-]toys[/-] tools.
- Wonder how those big-city folks ever put up with community associations and home-owner rules & regulations.
- Raise funds to build arts & culture sites like them there big cities. Try to decide whether or not the town needs a symphony orchestra.
- Hotly debate whether or not the town needs a traffic light.
- Hotly debate just about everything at town meetings.
- Zone as much of the surrounding area conservation/land trust as possible. Raise funds to buy it or rezone it.
- Legislate against "big box" stores.
- Food, agricultural, & community festivals.
- Parades for every occasion.
- Know (and discuss) everybody's business.
- [-]To keep out the riffraff and the druggies, file repeated anti-business suits to outlaw every form of modern mass transportation known to mankind.[/-] Sorry, that's probably a Hawaii specialty...