Basic Trope: A person moves from a big city to a small town.
- Straight: Alice moves from New York City to a small town in Iowa.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice moves from New York City to a farm miles away from its neighbors.
- Alice moves from Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York, to Kodiak, Alaska.
- Downplayed: Alice moves from New York City to Albany.
- Justified: Alice was tired of the crowds and noise of the big city.
- Inverted: Farm Girl Alice moves from her family farm somewhere in the Deep South to Coney Island, Brooklyn, New York.
- Subverted: Alice was just visiting there.
- Double Subverted: But she liked visiting there so she decided to move there.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Alice can’t decide on if the city or the country is the place to live.
- Averted: Alice stays in the same place during the story.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: “Why would anyone move to such a remote and small town?”
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Some of Alice’s friends try to get her to stay.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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