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A teenager growing up in a small rural town wants to get away from it all, to the big city, or abroad, anywhere but the boring old Small Town. Characters who come from this background, such as the CountryMouse and FarmBoy, generally [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The Call]]. If they don't, expect [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive the call to come looking for them anyway]].

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A teenager growing up in a small rural town wants to get away from it all, to the big city, or abroad, anywhere but the boring old Small Town. Characters who come from this background, such as the CountryMouse and FarmBoy, generally [[JumpedAtTheCall Jump At The at the Call]]. If they don't, expect [[TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive the call to come looking for them anyway]].



** [[spoiler: Milah]] is often seen at the town's tavern and is bored of being a wife and a mother, so she [[spoiler: fakes being kidnapped by Captain Hook to run away with him and his crew]], abandoning her husband and young child. But when [[spoiler: Rumpelstiltskin]] finds out about the deception, it does not end well for her.

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** [[spoiler: Milah]] [[spoiler:Milah]] is often seen at the town's tavern and is bored of being a wife and a mother, so she [[spoiler: fakes being kidnapped by Captain Hook to run away with him and his crew]], abandoning her husband and young child. But when [[spoiler: Rumpelstiltskin]] finds out about the deception, it does not end well for her. her.
* Bailey in ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOnDeck'' enrolls in high school aboard a cruise ship to escape her boring life on a farm in Kettlecorn, Kansas.



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* On his album ''Werewolves And Lollipops'', Creator/PattonOswalt talks about growing up in Sterling, Virginia, and "The Test Of The Small Town". You pass the test when you say "I'm leaving before I kill everyone and then myself!" You fail it when you say, "I'm gonna get a job at the Citgo and fill my truck up for free!"

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* On his album ''Werewolves And and Lollipops'', Creator/PattonOswalt talks about growing up in Sterling, Virginia, and "The Test Of The Small Town". You pass the test when you say "I'm leaving before I kill everyone and then myself!" You fail it when you say, "I'm gonna get a job at the Citgo and fill my truck up for free!"



* Both ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'' and ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' feature this trope InSpace, with Ratchet living on the backwater world of Veldin where Ratchet has very little future ahead of him. In the [=PS2=] game he leaves purely for the fun of adventure, while in the movie [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 and its video game]] Ratchet leaves to become a famed hero with the Galactic Rangers.
* One official source states that ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' only began exploring because he was bored with his birthplace, Christmas Island.

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* Both ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2002'' and the movie ''WesternAnimation/RatchetAndClank'' feature this trope InSpace, with Ratchet living on the backwater world of Veldin where Ratchet has very little future ahead of him. In the [=PS2=] game he leaves purely for the fun of adventure, while in the movie [[VideoGame/RatchetAndClank2016 and its video game]] Ratchet leaves to become a famed hero with the Galactic Rangers.
* One official source states that ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'' Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog only began exploring because he was bored with his birthplace, Christmas Island.



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** Oklahoma has successfully documented the "Great Brain Drain", a finding that 50% of all university graduates leave the state for any state which has both better odds of employment and appears less boring to their university-educated eyes. One consequence of this finding has been a reluctance for Oklahoma parents to allow their children to attend university because they fear that a university education will take their children away from them.

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** Oklahoma has successfully documented the "Great Brain Drain", a finding that 50% of all university graduates leave the state for any state which has both better odds of employment and appears less boring to their university-educated eyes. One consequence of this finding has been a reluctance for Oklahoma parents to allow their children to attend university because they fear that a university education will take their children away from them. It's theorized that this is one of the contributing factors to Oklahoma's increasingly severe issues with meth addiction among its residents; to escape both the lack of prospects and the high poverty rate, many people turn to illicit substances, leading to a downward spiral of addicts who can't make progress in their lives and therefore remain addicts.
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* In general, this trope can be inverted by people who actually ''enjoy'' the fact that small towns seem sleepy and boring. These people can find large, vibrant cities to be too loud, too suffocating, or what have you, and very much prefer the slower pace of life that occurs in smaller communities. What others would call boring and dull, they would call peace and quiet.

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* ''WebVideo/PirateSMP'': The reason Jojo ventured beyond her tiny home village to sail the seas, only to be captured by the Hooded Figures, leading up to her breaking out with her fellow captives and joining the Nightingale faction on the Isles.
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* "Oklahoma Smokeshow" by Music/ZachBryan is about a young woman stuck in "That small town bar scene/Where small vices kill your big dreams."
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** Bordedom comes up in Eri Minami's Social Link. She has married an Inaba man who had a son and finds the town somewhat boring. TV and the Internet are her only forms of entertainment, and she also has no friends among the other mothers who come to the daycare center.

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** Bordedom Boredom comes up in Eri Minami's Social Link. She has married an Inaba man who had a son and finds the town somewhat boring. TV and the Internet are her only forms of entertainment, and she also has no friends among the other mothers who come to the daycare center.



** Depending on player's dialogue choices, Yu can also agree the town is lackluster, though it has no gameplay significance

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* In ''VideoGame/{{APICO}}'', your character has recently moved to the APICO Islands because they were bored with life in the city.



* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Inaba is a small rural town where normally, [[TemptingFate at least before the murders]], nothing of interest happens. This provides initial characterization for several characters.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': ''VideoGame/Persona4'': Inaba is a small rural town where normally, [[TemptingFate at least before the murders]], nothing of interest happens. This provides initial characterization for several characters.
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* In ''{{Series/Cybervillage}}'', Marinka, Nikolay's older daughter, seems to suffer from it.
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* Many children (and some adults) in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' universe. See the later 'Pocket Monsters' Entry for a more specific example, though a sense of wanting to leave their hometowns for the wider world is still present elsewhere in the franchise.

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* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Many children (and some adults) originate from small, humble towns in the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' universe. See the later 'Pocket Monsters' Entry for a more specific example, though a sense of wanting to Pokémon world, but often leave said-towns to become traveling Pokémon trainers. Even when they return home to meet up with family or celebrate their hometowns for latest achievements, it isn't long until they immediately leave to go on a new adventure. The movie ''Anime/PokemonIChooseYou'' highlights that the wider entire world literally functions on this trope because a world without Pokémon is still present elsewhere in a dull and nearly lifeless society where the franchise.only adventure is going to school.



* ''Literature/PocketMonstersTheAnimation'' goes into depth on this in the ''Pokemon'' anime's 'verse. Many people end up becoming trainers in order to leave their towns, but many of these people end up failing their journey. A lot of them refuse to come home deadbeats. Ash's father and even his maternal grandfather ran off on journeys and never came back.

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* ''Literature/PocketMonstersTheAnimation'' goes into depth on this in the ''Pokemon'' ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeries Pokémon]]'' anime's 'verse. Many people end up becoming trainers in order to leave their towns, but many of these people end up failing their journey. A lot of them refuse to come home deadbeats. Ash's father and even his maternal grandfather ran off on journeys and never came back.
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** TheHeavy's main motive turns out to be [[spoiler: the lack of fun. Per his admission, Tohru Adachi only became a police officer to legally walk with a gun, but quickly finds that there's really for him to do in Inaba. The first murder happened accidentally in an AttemptedRape, because Mayumi Yamano rejected his love confession, while Saki Konishi was killed deliberately, both of whom Adachi considers his playthings. Realizing there are now both the supernatural and multiple people involved in the case, he masterminds the events of the rest of the game solely ForTheEvulz]].

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** TheHeavy's main motive turns out to be [[spoiler: the lack of fun. Per his admission, Tohru Adachi only became a police officer to legally walk with a gun, but quickly finds that there's really nothing for him to do in Inaba. The first murder happened accidentally in an AttemptedRape, because Mayumi Yamano rejected his love confession, while Saki Konishi was killed deliberately, both of whom Adachi considers his playthings. Realizing there are now both the supernatural and multiple people involved in the case, he masterminds the events of the rest of the game solely ForTheEvulz]].
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** TheHeavy's main motive turns out to be [[spoiler: the lack of fun. Per his admission, Tohru Adachi only became a police officer to legally walk with a gun, but quickly finds that there's really for him to do in Inaba. The first murder happened accidentally in an AttemptedRape, because Mayumi Yamano rejected his love confession, while Mayumi Yamano was killed deliberately, both of whom Adachi considers his playthings. Realizing there are now both the supernatural and multiple people involved in the case, he masterminds the events of the rest of the game solely ForTheEvulz]].

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** TheHeavy's main motive turns out to be [[spoiler: the lack of fun. Per his admission, Tohru Adachi only became a police officer to legally walk with a gun, but quickly finds that there's really for him to do in Inaba. The first murder happened accidentally in an AttemptedRape, because Mayumi Yamano rejected his love confession, while Mayumi Yamano Saki Konishi was killed deliberately, both of whom Adachi considers his playthings. Realizing there are now both the supernatural and multiple people involved in the case, he masterminds the events of the rest of the game solely ForTheEvulz]].
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* ''Theatre/{{Shucked}}'': Averted. Maizy doesn't want to leave because she's bored, she wants to go out and find someone who can help with their corn.
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* During Episode 398 of the ''Rooster Teeth Podcast'', Chris and Blaine talk about the weird stuff they did in their small towns as teenagers because there was just ''nothing to do''. Both admit that it's pretty common to just... randomly climb buildings, among other things, which Miles jokes is them looking for an escape. Miles then quickly jots down the hallmarks of small-town America, which match Chris and Blaine's hometowns, before noting that it's a miracle they didn't succumb to hard drugs.

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* During Episode 398 of the ''Rooster ''[[Creator/RoosterTeeth Rooster Teeth Podcast'', Podcast]]'', Chris and Blaine talk about the weird stuff they did in their small towns as teenagers because there was just ''nothing to do''. Both admit that it's pretty common to just... randomly climb buildings, among other things, which Miles jokes is them looking for an escape. Miles then quickly jots down the hallmarks of small-town America, which match Chris and Blaine's hometowns, before noting that it's a miracle they didn't succumb to hard drugs.
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* Ariel from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid''. She's an odd example, though, in that in her case the "small town" is actually ''the ocean''.

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* Ariel from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid''.''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989''. She's an odd example, though, in that in her case the "small town" is actually ''the ocean''.
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If a specific town is named, expect it to be UsefulNotes/ToledoOhio or {{UsefulNotes/Cleveland}}.
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* Dexys Midnight Runners' "Come On Eileen" is about a boy who wants to leave his boring town with his crush.

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* Makoto from ''LightNovel/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' is glad to leave his town to live in the city with his aunt.

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* Makoto from ''LightNovel/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' ''Literature/GroundControlToPsychoelectricGirl'' is glad to leave his town to live in the city with his aunt.
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** TheHeavy's main motive turns out to be [[spoiler: the lack of fun. Per his admission, Tohru Adachi only became a police officer to legally walk with a gun, but quickly finds that there's really for him to do in Inaba. The first murder happened accidentally in an AttemptedRape, because Mayumi Yamano rejected his love confession, while Mayumi Yamano was killed deliberately, both of whom Adachi considers his playthings. Realizing there are now both the supernatural and multiple people involved in the case, he masterminds the events of the rest of the game solely FortheEvulz]].

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** TheHeavy's main motive turns out to be [[spoiler: the lack of fun. Per his admission, Tohru Adachi only became a police officer to legally walk with a gun, but quickly finds that there's really for him to do in Inaba. The first murder happened accidentally in an AttemptedRape, because Mayumi Yamano rejected his love confession, while Mayumi Yamano was killed deliberately, both of whom Adachi considers his playthings. Realizing there are now both the supernatural and multiple people involved in the case, he masterminds the events of the rest of the game solely FortheEvulz]].ForTheEvulz]].

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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Said boredom is such [[spoiler:that it drives someone to murder]]. This was also a key point in Shadow Yosuke and Shadow Yukiko's dialogues. [[ShadowArchetype Shadow Yosuke]] taunts Yosuke about how boring the town is to him, while Yukiko's shadow mentions how much she hates the town and just sits on her '''ass''' waiting for her prince to come rescue her from it. Yu (pun intended) can also play this trope straight or avert it depending on dialogue choices given to the player. (They don't appear to have any real effect on the story, and are mostly just there for flavor.) It should be said that the whole town's leisure facilities basically amount to one small diner, the shrine, the river, and if you're really desperate, the food court of the local supermarket. That is literally it.
** It ultimately turns out that Yukiko doesn't think about Inaba as boring, as she pointedly disagrees with a reporter describing it that way. Her main problem was the belief that she ''had'' to stay there and inherit her family's inn, but after getting past that, chose to do so for the sake of her family and all the people who worked for the inn who treated her kindly. As for Yosuke, while he admits that Inaba ''is'' boring, he also says that all his friends are there.
** It also comes up in Eri Minami's Social Link. She, a woman who married an Inaba man who had a son, finds the town somewhat boring, with TV and the Internet as her only forms of entertainment. It doesn't help that she has no friends among the other mothers who come to the daycare center, at least partly due to their looking down on her as an outsider and second mother.
** ''Golden'' dials this back a bit. Both a beach and Okina City are within a short train ride or a couple hours on a scooter from Inaba, giving a few more options. If nothing else, you can go to the movies now.
** In the fan-made musical of ''Persona 4'', the very first song is 'Small Town Blues' which completely tears down any pretense of fun and excitement. It used to be called 'Everything's Boring In Inaba'.
--> ''Inaba our town, where nothing ever happens,''
--> ''Where a superstore's enough to throw our homes out of whack''
--> ''Department store JUNES showed up here last December''
--> ''And proceeded to devour all our economic slack''

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* ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'': Said boredom Inaba is such [[spoiler:that it drives someone to murder]]. a small rural town where normally, [[TemptingFate at least before the murders]], nothing of interest happens. This was also a key point in Shadow provides initial characterization for several characters.
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Yosuke and Shadow Yukiko's dialogues. [[ShadowArchetype Hanamura is a transfer student who comes from a big city. As such, in the beginning he's secretly very frustrated by having nothing exciting to do. [[TheHeartless Shadow Yosuke]] taunts Yosuke about how boring the town is to him, while Yukiko's shadow mentions how much she hates the town and just sits on her '''ass''' waiting for her prince to come rescue her from it. Yu (pun intended) can also play amplifies this trope straight or avert it depending on dialogue choices given to aspect and mocks him for being a HeroicWannabe and treating the player. (They don't appear murders as an excuse to have any real effect on the story, and are mostly just there for flavor.) It should be said that the whole town's leisure facilities basically amount to one small diner, the shrine, the river, and if you're really desperate, the food court of the local supermarket. That is literally it.
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an adventure. While he still calls Inaba as boring, as she pointedly disagrees with a reporter describing it that way. Her main problem was the belief that she ''had'' to stay there and inherit her family's inn, but after getting past that, chose to do so for the sake of her family and all the people who worked for the inn who treated her kindly. As for Yosuke, while he admits that Inaba ''is'' boring, he also says that all his admits the new friends are there.
worth more than the thrills.
** It also Yukiko Amagi is the inheritor of the Amagi Inn, which she's not very fond of, and is expected to soon become its manager. Her boredom manifests in Shadow Yukiko, who accuses her of prefering a self-inflicted GildedCage and doing nothing but wait for a "prince" to take her away from Inaba. She eventually chooses to [[spoiler: stay at the Inn in gratitude for her family]].
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to their looking down on her as an outsider and second mother.
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be [[spoiler: the movies now.
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lack of ''Persona 4'', the very fun. Per his admission, Tohru Adachi only became a police officer to legally walk with a gun, but quickly finds that there's really for him to do in Inaba. The first song is 'Small Town Blues' which completely tears down any pretense murder happened accidentally in an AttemptedRape, because Mayumi Yamano rejected his love confession, while Mayumi Yamano was killed deliberately, both of fun whom Adachi considers his playthings. Realizing there are now both the supernatural and excitement. It used multiple people involved in the case, he masterminds the events of the rest of the game solely FortheEvulz]].
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to be called 'Everything's Boring In Inaba'.
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--> ''Where a superstore's enough to throw our homes out
provide entertainment for the audience, by showcasing the worst aspects of whack''
--> ''Department store JUNES showed up here last December''
--> ''And proceeded to devour all our economic slack''
a victim's personality in an advanced MaliciousSlander. One of the [[AnAesop themes]] of the game is that the best and not the worst parts makes the person interesting.
** Depending on player's dialogue choices, Yu can also agree the town is lackluster, though it has no gameplay significance
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* ''Anime/{{Shiki}}'': Megumi expresses this at the start of the series, hoping to go travel to the big city from her rural village as she finds it boring. [[spoiler: Ironically after she becomes a vampire, she's denied going to the city by her master and never leaves her village alive once she attempts to do so when things hit the fan. At most she gets a DyingDream of finally going to Tokyo upon being staked in the manga.]]

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* ''Anime/{{Shiki}}'': ''Literature/{{Shiki}}'': Megumi expresses this at the start of the series, hoping to go travel to the big city from her rural village as she finds it boring. [[spoiler: Ironically after she becomes a vampire, she's denied going to the city by her master and never leaves her village alive once she attempts to do so when things hit the fan. At most she gets a DyingDream of finally going to Tokyo upon being staked in the manga.]]
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Compare and contrast with NothingExcitingEverHappensHere and HatedHometown. Related to GrassIsGreener, which is about someone in bad conditions dreaming of going to a better place. Often seen in stories set in {{Dying Town}}s, perhaps ones with SmallTownRivalry. Contrast FromNewYorkToNowhere.

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FromNewYorkToNowhere. If the small town is actively toxic to live in because of its insular nature, it can lead into SmallTownBigHell.
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* In ''Film/{{Infamous}}'', Arielle is convinced that she is destined to be famous and has no interest in staying in what she calls a "speedtrap town" in south Florida. She wants to get out and get to Hollywood, even if she has to resort to crime to do it.

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* In ''Film/{{Infamous}}'', ''Film/Infamous2020'', Arielle is convinced that she is destined to be famous and has no interest in staying in what she calls a "speedtrap town" in south Florida. She wants to get out and get to Hollywood, even if she has to resort to crime to do it.
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* ''LightNovel/PocketMonstersTheAnimation'' goes into depth on this in the ''Pokemon'' anime's 'verse. Many people end up becoming trainers in order to leave their towns, but many of these people end up failing their journey. A lot of them refuse to come home deadbeats. Ash's father and even his maternal grandfather ran off on journeys and never came back.

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* SmallTownBoredom: A rare positive example with "Thrice All American", painting Tacoma, WA as something she loves exactly ''because'' it's this trope as well as a DyingTown.

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-->Bad is good for me\\
I'm bored, so clean, and so ignored\\
I've only been predictable, respectable\\
Birds fly out of here, so why oh why oh why the hell can't I?\\
I only want variety, of society
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* In Ann Turner's ''Third Girl From the Left'' Sarah is so tired of her little Maine hometown that she decides to become a MailOrderBride for a Montana cattle rancher. Unfortunately for her, life there is a bit harsher, and the groom a bit older, than she was led to believe.

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