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A good example in fiction: In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, the heroes come from Emonds Field, which is a small town of a few hundred people. They get to a city (regional capital) and are all amazed at the size: thousands of people! Then they go to the capital city and discover that "big city" they were so impressed by is considered a small town, and that nobody has even heard of Emonds Field.


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* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': The heroes come from Emonds Field, a small town of a few hundred people. They get to a city (regional capital) and are all amazed at the size: thousands of people! Then they go to the capital city and discover that the "big city" they were so impressed by is considered a small town, and that nobody has even heard of Emonds Field.
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Might overlap with AdventureTowns (the characters travel to a new setting every episode, often a small town).

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Might overlap with AdventureTowns (the AdventureTowns, the characters travel to a new setting every episode, often setting--sometimes a small town).
town--every episode.
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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere
* OnlyShopInTown occurs most commonly with small towns.

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* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere
NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: A supposedly ordinary, boring location is the site of an extraordinary event.
* OnlyShopInTown occurs most commonly with small towns.OnlyShopInTown: A town is so small, it can only support one shop.



* The TownWithADarkSecret is usually small as it's easier to keep a secret if only a small number of people are in on it.

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* The TownWithADarkSecret is usually small as it's TownWithADarkSecret: It's easier to keep a secret if only a small number of people are in on it.
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* EccentricTownsfolk

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* EccentricTownsfolkEccentricTownsfolk: A (small) town's population is full of strange, friendly characters.



* QuirkyTown

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* QuirkyTownQuirkyTown: A (small) town is portrayed as strange, but pleasant nevertheless.
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** As might a work in a SouthernGothic setting.
*** SouthernGothicSatan

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* SmallTownBigHell: In a small town where all people meet each other, when a drama occurs everyone ''will know'' about it.

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* SmallTownBigHell: In a small town where all people meet each other, when a drama occurs everyone ''will know'' about it.



* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: There are working-class people in cities too, but the way this trope is played more often than not has the dumb working-class people in small towns or rural areas.

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* IOwnThisTown



* LovecraftCountry might contain these.

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* LovecraftCountry might contain these.LovecraftCountry: Rural [[HollywoodNewEngland New England]] is a land of [[EldritchLocation cosmic horrors]] and evil.
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* InformedSmallTown: Inaccurate fictional portrayal of small towns.

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* InformedSmallTown: Inaccurate fictional portrayal of A supposedly small towns.town has an unrealistically wide range of facilities.
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* DeepSouth:

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* DeepSouth: Home of rednecks and miles of farmland, backwoods, mountains, and bayous.



* {{Dreamville}}:Dreams, VR scenarios, artificial realities and other imaginary events set in suburbia or small towns.

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* {{Dreamville}}:Dreams, {{Dreamville}}: Dreams, VR scenarios, artificial realities and other imaginary events set in suburbia or small towns.



* GhostTown: A small town's population has dwindled down to just a few individuals at most, if anyone even still lives there at all.

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* GhostTown: A small town's population has dwindled down to just a few individuals at most, if anyone even still lives there at all.town where (almost) no one lives.

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Compare to CountrysideIndex. Contrast TheCity.

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Might overlap with AdventureTowns (the characters travel to a new setting every episode, often a small town).

Compare to CountrysideIndex.CountrysideIndex and {{Arcadia}} (an out-of-the-way rural area where you get away from it all and enjoy simple pleasures); though, do remember not all small towns are rural. Contrast TheCity.



* AdventureTowns: The characters travel to a new setting every episode, often a small town.
* {{Arcadia}}: An out-of-the-way rural area where you get away from it all and enjoy simple pleasures.



* DeepSouth:



* FarmLifeSim
* FlyoverCountry and the DeepSouth are famous for these.

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* FarmLifeSim
* FlyoverCountry
FlyoverCountry: American coast-dwellers see the land in-between as boorish, sparsely-populated, rural, and the DeepSouth are famous for these.conservative.
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* EccentricTownsfolk: The adult cast went to the same school together and hasn't changed since then.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether

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* EccentricTownsfolk: EccentricTownsfolk
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether:
The adult cast went to the same school together and hasn't changed since then.
* EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether
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Compare to CountrysideIndex.

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Compare to CountrysideIndex. Contrast TheCity.
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* FakeTown: When the "town" turns out not to be real at all.

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* FakeTown: When the "town" turns out not to be real at all.A fake, often uninhabited, but realistic-looking town.
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* AdventureTowns are often small
* {{Arcadia}} can contain really low level population towns
* BigTownBoredom: When someone from a bigger city or mid-sized suburb wishes they could move to a smaller or more rural place.
* CleanUpTheTown

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* AdventureTowns are AdventureTowns: The characters travel to a new setting every episode, often small
a small town.
* {{Arcadia}} can contain really low level population towns
{{Arcadia}}: An out-of-the-way rural area where you get away from it all and enjoy simple pleasures.
* BigTownBoredom: When someone Someone from a bigger city or mid-sized suburb wishes they could move to a smaller or more rural place.
* CleanUpTheTown CleanUpTheTown: Ridding a (small) town of the evils pervading it.



* CloseKnitCommunity: It's often a small town.
* DownOnTheFarm can also contain them.
* {{Dreamville}}: Small towns that exist only in the imaginary.
* DyingTown
* EccentricTownsfolk

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* CloseKnitCommunity: It's often A setting where people look out for each other; if not a neighborhood, a small town.
* DownOnTheFarm can also contain them.
* {{Dreamville}}: Small towns that exist only
DownOnTheFarm: Classic view of fewer than 1000 people living in the imaginary.
middle of nowhere surrounded by farming fields.
* DyingTown
{{Dreamville}}:Dreams, VR scenarios, artificial realities and other imaginary events set in suburbia or small towns.
* EccentricTownsfolkDyingTown: A town that has lost its main reason for existing, resulting in a dwindling population.
* EccentricTownsfolk: The adult cast went to the same school together and hasn't changed since then.

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A good example in fiction: In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, the heroes come from Emonds Field, which is a small town of a few hundred people. They get to a city (regional capital) and are all amazed at the size: thousands of people! Then they go to the capital city, and discover that "big city" they were so impressed by is considered a small town, and that nobody has even heard of Emonds Field.

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A good example in fiction: In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, the heroes come from Emonds Field, which is a small town of a few hundred people. They get to a city (regional capital) and are all amazed at the size: thousands of people! Then they go to the capital city, city and discover that "big city" they were so impressed by is considered a small town, and that nobody has even heard of Emonds Field.




There are a lot of specialized [[SubTrope sub-tropes]] of the small town:



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* A CloseKnitCommunity is often a small town.

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* A CloseKnitCommunity is CloseKnitCommunity: It's often a small town.



* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: There are working class people in cities too, but the way this trope is played more often than not has the dumb working class people in small towns or rural areas.

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* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: There are working class working-class people in cities too, but the way this trope is played more often than not has the dumb working class working-class people in small towns or rural areas.

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There are a lot of specialized subtropes of the small town:
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There are a lot of specialized subtropes [[SubTrope sub-tropes]] of the small town:
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* EccentricTownsfolk
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* WorkingClassPeopleAreMorons: There are working class people in cities too, but the way this trope is played more often than not has the dumb working class people in small towns or rural areas.
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* EverytownAmerica

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* EverytownAmericaEverytownAmerica: The stereotypical American small town.
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* SupernaturalHotspotTown: This town attracts the supernatural.
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* HalfWittedHillbilly; People from the small towns are incredibly dumb.

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* HalfWittedHillbilly; HalfWittedHillbilly: People from the small towns are incredibly dumb.
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* HalfWittedHillbilly; People from the small towns are incredibly dumb.
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* SmallTownTyrant: Evil authority figure of a small town.
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* TyrannicalTownTycoon

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* TyrannicalTownTycoonTyrannicalTownTycoon: A corrupt rich prick who rules over the small town like some sort of modern nobleman.
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* GhostTown

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* GhostTownGhostTown: A small town's population has dwindled down to just a few individuals at most, if anyone even still lives there at all.
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* BigTownBoredom: When a character in a bigger city or suburb wishes they could move to a smaller or more rural place.

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* BigTownBoredom: When a character in someone from a bigger city or mid-sized suburb wishes they could move to a smaller or more rural place.



* SmallTownBoredom

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* SmallTownBoredomSmallTownBoredom: Someone grows tired of life in their dull little town or village, and wants to move into a larger city.
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* BigTownBoredom: When a character in a bigger city or suburb wishes they could move to a smaller or more rural place.
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* CornyNebraska: Nebraska can contain a lot of small towns known for their corn farms.
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* SmallTownBigHell: In a small town where all people meet each other, when a drama occurs everyone ''will know'' about it.

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* LovecraftCountry might contain these
** As might a work in a SouthernGothic setting

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* LovecraftCountry might contain these
these.
** As might a work in a SouthernGothic settingsetting.
*** SouthernGothicSatan

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