western australia

It’s all relative

@JudyEv (381760)

Rockingham, Australia

December 10, 2018 5:44pm CST

MyLotter Always smiling (@allknowing) wrote recently about a fun run held in Germany. This is the discussion if you want to read more: M.-L. (@MALUSE ) commented that it was funny she had to come to an American site to read a post by an Indian member to learn about something that happened in her home country. She went on to say that, when she checked, she discovered the event was held in a ‘tiny’ town of ~12.500 inhabitants. This might be tiny by some standards but in Western Australia we only have nine towns with populations over 12,500. My small town has 2,500 people so perhaps I should be calling Donnybrook miniscule. As the title says, it’s all relative.

This is unheard of / myLot

We have seen revelers wearing santa caps getting into the feel of Christmas but this is hilarious One thousand runners in Germany dressed as Santas took to...

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@snowy22315 (208746)

• United States

11 Dec 18

Yes, it's all relative. Here in the wilderness

, there is one small town that has about 500 residents and a few businesses, plus a bank, post office and market..one shopping center that serves the lake area where I live, and a bigger town the county seat..that has a few thousand people.

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@shaggin (74988)

• United States

11 Dec 18

@snowy22315 That sounds very similar to my town but mine sounds a wee by smaller and no lake.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

That sounds a bi similar to our town really. I think our 2,500 includes the surrounding district - farmers, orchardists, etc.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

10 Dec 18

When I was living in a city we lived in a flat. There were 54 flats in an area that is as big as the one we now have here in a semi rural town. Just compare the number of people in the building and how many of us live here in the same area.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

They can certainly squash people in with high-rise living.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

11 Dec 18

@JudyEv It was not that bad. We have a 2 bedroom flat but here we have our house which has 3 almost 2000 sq. ft and a huge garden,et al

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@shaggin (74988)

• United States

11 Dec 18

I saw that post and all the comments so I know what you are saying. I live in a town with a population of around 300 lol

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@shaggin (74988)

• United States

11 Dec 18

@snowy22315 it's like cheers where everyone knows you name BUT unlike cheers you don't want everyone too lol

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@snowy22315 (208746)

• United States

11 Dec 18

@shaggin right!

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@snowy22315 (208746)

• United States

11 Dec 18

I am glad I am not right in the town..although they do know who I am when I go to the bank.

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@sofssu (23660)

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11 Dec 18

LOL, its is all relative indeed.. I would say where i live just this tiny community consisting of a few hundred homes would have more that 12500 people residing here.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

So I guess there are many living in each house?

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@Juliaacv (56195)

• Canada

10 Dec 18

We lived in a tiny village for over 20 years, it was so small it did not even have a population sign! Yet everyone knew of the village, and how to get there.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

Towns and/or villages don't have to be huge to be noteworthy do they?

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@DianneN (254949)

• United States

11 Dec 18

It certainly is all relative. We live in a small town of about 50,000 minus two people.

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@DianneN (254949)

• United States

11 Dec 18

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

And that still sounds huge to me.

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@LadyDuck (502187)

• Italy

11 Dec 18

Siwss villages (little towns) are pretty small, our village has 4,000 people, but the one just at our right only has 2,050 people.

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@LadyDuck (502187)

• Italy

12 Dec 18

@JudyEv The biggest city in the south of Switzerland is Lugano with a population of 64,000, it's 25 Km from here.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

@LadyDuck I've probably told you before but Lugano is on our Ticket To Ride board as is Brusio which I just read about on here today too.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

I guess it depends on the surroundings too and how many a region can support.

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@andriaperry (118793)

• Anniston, Alabama

11 Dec 18

I learn stuff everyday about where I live that I did not know.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

There seems to be always plenty to learn.

@MarymargII (12422)

• Toronto, Ontario

11 Dec 18

Haha! they had something similar in Canada too. So must be a new thing. Thank God it's wintertime with all that Santa gear on!

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

Another excuse for a bit of fun and I think perhaps the German one raised money as well.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

@MarymargII Good idea. We have a Santa hat somewhere. Last time we used it Herc modelled it for us.

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@MarymargII (12422)

• Toronto, Ontario

12 Dec 18

@JudyEv I'll have to search out my old Santa hat and get a red shirt. lol!

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@Ronrybs (21504)

• London, England

12 Dec 18

I live on the edge of London, so you could say our population is in the millions, but a few centuries ago it was measured in the few hundreds and the city was day's walk away. We would still have taxed as if in London, though!

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

Income tax was apparently brought into Australia during World War I and the citizens were told it would only be imposed till the war ended. Ha ha ha. That never happened did it?

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

2 Jan 19

@Ronrybs It is too easy a way to get money from the populace to ever be stopped for too long.

@Ronrybs (21504)

• London, England

12 Dec 18

@JudyEv In the UK, I think, income tax was first brought in during the Napoleonic wars, disappeared and came back again, disappeared one more time and then in the Victorian era was brought back one last time

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@ilocosboy (45155)

• Philippines

11 Dec 18

My town has more or less 10k populations and half of it were registered voters. Just last month a fun run was also held in my town.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

So that is a very big town too. How many were in the fun run?

@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

@ilocosboy Wow, that is a lot. Did you run in this event?

@ilocosboy (45155)

• Philippines

12 Dec 18

Just more than 300 runners.

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@thelme55 (79311)

• Germany

11 Dec 18

Yes, everything is relative. What might be small to us, might be big to others.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

That is very true. I guess you find quite significant differences between the two countries you live in.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

16 Dec 18

@thelme55 I can understand those differences. We recognise Germany as being quite pedantic.

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@thelme55 (79311)

• Germany

14 Dec 18

@JudyEv yes, indeed. Lots of differences. I keep on being spontaneous here in my home country while everything is planned in my home in Germany. It is no good to compare both countries because it is my choice to live here and there for a few months.

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@JustBhem (70555)

• Davao, Philippines

11 Dec 18

And I live in a big city meaning more population.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

Yes, I'm sure some of your cities are very large.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

@JustBhem Wow. Do you like living in a big city?

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@JustBhem (70555)

• Davao, Philippines

11 Dec 18

@JudyEv Yes, and where I am right now is one of the biggest city in the Philippines.

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@nela13 (59367)

• Portugal

10 Dec 18

Compared to my village that one in Germany is a big one.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

I thought the German town sounded really large by Australian standards.

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Christine aka stine1

@stine1online (835)

• Germany

14 Jan 19

I will have to check out that discussion, too. I am also from Germany :-)

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

14 Jan 19

We have a number of different nationalities here now.

@Tampa_girl7 (54714)

• United States

11 Dec 18

We live in a rural area and the nearest town has a population of 1,900.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

So that size would be pretty common here too.

@xFiacre (14782)

• Ireland

11 Dec 18

@judyev Nice apples, if that’s what they are.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

Yes, they're apples but they look dusty. They must have been repainted as they look very bright at the moment.

@Fleura (34927)

• United Kingdom

11 Dec 18

As you say, everything is relative. There are around 3,000 people in this village. In China a small town that you've never heard of would have many hundred thousands of inhabitants.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

Yes, some countries seem to be absolutely full of people

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@TheHorse (238268)

• Walnut Creek, California

11 Dec 18

I lived in a town of 10,000 in Iowa for several years. I drove 20 miles to Newton to get Chinese food, and 60 miles to DesMoines to get Thai food. But it was quicker than getting around the blasted Bay Area.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

12 Dec 18

I just looked up Walnut Creek and that seems a sizeable town too. Is it regarded as such there or considered 'small' or 'large'?

@JamesHxstatic (29410)

• Eugene, Oregon

11 Dec 18

It certainly is. There are many pockets of small towns like yours in the US. Many are in Texas, where I grew up.

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@JamesHxstatic (29410)

• Eugene, Oregon

11 Dec 18

@JudyEv That is certainly true is many areas of the US.

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@JudyEv (381760)

• Rockingham, Australia

11 Dec 18

I guess some of it is to do with the surrounding land not being to support large populations.

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