Two fish out of water...
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
United States
December 10, 2015 2:16pm CST
...that's what it felt like heading to the big city this morning. No, not Chicago, or New York or Boston - the big city of Cleveland, Tennessee. When you live in the boonies where we do heading to any good size town or city is a big deal. I mean we put on our 'go to town' best outfits and mingled like big city folks!
Our one horse town has two traffic lights and a blinker and not much traffic except when school lets out. Cleveland, however, has traffic and red lights, lots of noise and too many people. It was fun being there for a few hours, but it was nicer to get back here to the peace and quiet.
Now the two fish out of water are safely back where they belong!
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@fishtiger58 (29819)
• Momence, Illinois
10 Dec 15
I so know what you mean. My whole life I have lived in the southern suburbs of Chicago. My last place of residence was 5 miles south of the Chicago city limits. I got so sick of all those people. Now we live about 50 miles south of Chicago in a small town of 3000. So quiet here we love it.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Dec 15
Our entire county only has 1,1000 people! And a brand new McDonalds opened today - it's a real big deal!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Dec 15
I haven't been to Boston in years but when I did go, several times, I loved it. I used to work for Dunkin' Donuts Regional office so we went up to Braintree a lot for training.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Dec 15
Ours can't get too big, it's a very small county and one boundary is a river!
@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
10 Dec 15
Glad you are back home and not being attacked by any rough housed cowboys..
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@Rosekitty (19368)
• San Marcos, Texas
12 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill whoohoo..you captured the best!!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
12 Dec 15
@Rosekitty Don't let him hear that...LOL!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Dec 15
LOL - the only cowboy like that is the one I married LOL!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Dec 15
Our town is a little too small it takes less than a minute to drive thru it!
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Dec 15
We do have our own set of 'problems' living int he country but I'd never go back to city living again.
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
23 Dec 15
Then you know what it's like going from small to big and full of people
@PatZAnthony (14749)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
11 Dec 15
We have visited Cleveland TN and did not think of it as a big city, but understand what you mean.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Dec 15
@PatZAnthony, when you live in a county that only has 1100 people a city like Cleveland with 42,000 people it's a big city to us. Thats from the 2010 census - Cleveland has grown like a weed with the opening of VW and two amazon plants and many other major companys. They are building homes and town homes like crazy. That's one of the main reasons we left, traffic was almost as bad as when we lived in a metro area in Central Jersey.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
10 Dec 15
Our entire county only has 1,100 people - not sure how many cows or John Deere tractors!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
11 Dec 15
lol, I dont have go to town clothes, I just wear the same stuff.
@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
11 Dec 15
For me I put on brand new jeans and a clean top LOL!
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@AbbyGreenhill (45490)
• United States
12 Dec 15
@Jessicalynnt They won't let you in stores w/o shoes!
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@Jessicalynnt (50523)
• Centralia, Missouri
12 Dec 15
@AbbyGreenhill I put on shoes, lol, I hate wearing shoes
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