1 | ->''"Well I was born in a small town, and I can breathe in a small town.\ |
2 | [I'm] gonna die in this small town, and that's probably where they'll bury me."'' |
3 | -->-- '''John Mellencamp''', "Small Town" |
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5 | Many stories prefer a [[MajorWorldCities big city]] because it's exciting. But sometimes a story instead needs a small town setting, where people know each other, and "time slows down to a crawl". Of course, size is relative, and a small town can be anywhere from tens of thousands, to a few hundred, depending on your perspective. |
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7 | Might overlap with AdventureTowns, the characters travel to a new setting--sometimes a small town--every episode, and * CloseKnitCommunity, a {{setting|s}} where people look out for each other. |
8 | |
9 | Compare to 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. |
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11 | !![[SubTrope Sub-tropes]]: |
12 | [[index]] |
13 | * BigTownBoredom: Someone from a bigger city or mid-sized suburb wishes they could move to a smaller or more rural place. |
14 | * CleanUpTheTown: Ridding a (small) town of the evils pervading it. |
15 | * CompanyTown: Usually fairly small, as the town's entire purpose is just to support one company's work. |
16 | * CornyNebraska: Nebraska can contain a lot of small towns known for their corn farms. |
17 | * DeepSouth: Home of small-town rednecks and miles of farmland, backwoods, mountains, and bayous. |
18 | * DownOnTheFarm: Classic view of fewer than 1000 people living in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farming fields. |
19 | * {{Dreamville}}: Dreams, VR scenarios, artificial realities and other imaginary events set in suburbia or small towns. |
20 | * DyingTown: A town that has lost its main reason for existing, resulting in a dwindling population. |
21 | * EccentricTownsfolk: A (small) town's population is full of strange, friendly characters. |
22 | * EveryoneWentToSchoolTogether: The adult cast went to the same school together and hasn't changed since then. |
23 | * EverytownAmerica: The stereotypical American small town. |
24 | * FakeTown: A fake, often uninhabited, but realistic-looking town. |
25 | * FlyoverCountry: American coast-dwellers see the land in-between as boorish, sparsely-populated, rural, and conservative. |
26 | * FromNewYorkToNowhere: When a character moves from a major city to a rural or small-town location. |
27 | * GhostTown: A town where (almost) no one lives. |
28 | * HalfWittedHillbilly: People from small towns are incredibly dumb. |
29 | * InformedSmallTown: A supposedly small town has an unrealistically wide range of facilities. |
30 | * LovecraftCountry: Rural [[HollywoodNewEngland New England]] is a land of [[EldritchLocation cosmic horrors]] and evil. |
31 | * NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: A supposedly ordinary, boring location is the site of an extraordinary event. |
32 | * OnlyShopInTown: A town is so small, it can only support one shop. |
33 | * QuirkyTown: A (small) town is portrayed as strange, but pleasant nevertheless. |
34 | * SmallTownBigHell: In a small town where all people meet each other, when drama occurs everyone ''will know'' about it. |
35 | * SmallTownBoredom: Someone grows tired of life in their dull little town or village, and wants to move into a larger city. |
36 | * SmallTownTyrant: Evil authority figure of a small town. |
37 | * SuburbanGothic media will take place in a sleepy smaller community |
38 | * SupernaturalHotspotTown: This town attracts the supernatural. |
39 | * TownWithADarkSecret: It's easier to keep a secret if only a small number of people are in on it. |
40 | * TyrannicalTownTycoon: A corrupt rich prick who rules over the small town like some sort of modern nobleman. |
41 | [[/index]] |
42 | |
43 | !!Examples that don't fit any of the above: |
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45 | [[AC:Literature]] |
46 | * ''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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