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FearlessF · « **Reply #3360 on:** February 20, 2022, 05:04:07 PM »

BTW, everything is relative

What is your idea of a small town?

mine is anything under 1,000.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3361 on:** February 20, 2022, 05:26:21 PM »

Ohio has some strict designation and a "small town" was called a village officially. Ours had 3200 residents and was a village.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3362 on:** February 20, 2022, 05:28:55 PM »

Ohio is a bit different than Iowa or Nebraska or South Dakota

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3363 on:** February 20, 2022, 05:31:48 PM »

To me, a small city would be about 50,000. A town would be 10,000, a small town maybe 2,000, and a tiny town 500 or fewer.

But it's usually arbitrary unless some state defines it.

Mr Tulip · « **Reply #3364 on:** February 21, 2022, 08:56:06 AM »

Texas may have a town of 800 people, but it's 2000 sq mi in size. The "town" is basically where the cotton gin was or is.

But you can be sure they want their own ISD, stadium, and football team!

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3365 on:** February 21, 2022, 09:16:06 AM »

Towns in Ohio often sprung up every 20 miles, because that is where a tavern or stage coach livery would have been. Travel back then was tough over any distance at all.

I had to work this out in my books where folks traveled quite a bit on horseback, and I probably got it wrong. I figured a lone rider might make 30 miles in a day. A horse walks about 4 mph.

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utee94 · « **Reply #3366 on:** February 21, 2022, 09:47:11 AM »

Best steak I've ever had was cooked by me, at my house.

Best restaurant steak I've ever had was at some fancy place in Newport Beach, California. It was a local, super-swanky joint that our field sales team took us to after we secured a really huge contract with Rockwell Semiconductor. I also drank a $95 snifter of Louis XIII that night. Good times.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3367 on:** February 21, 2022, 10:42:17 AM »

I grew up on a dead end street in a town of 4-500

I now live on a dead end street in a town of 3-400. Because of the bedroom community status caused by the small city of 70-80,000 within 10 miles, both towns have one bar. no grocery, no hardware

the town that was 4-500 through my high school daze, is near 700. They have a gas/convenience station - beer, cigs, lotto tickets , milk & bread, pizza & donuts

too busy for me

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3368 on:** February 21, 2022, 11:10:24 AM »

Where I mostly grew up was unincorporated, but had a name and HS. It probably had 8,000 people, several churches of course, and small grocery, a cafe which is still there and a good sized lumber yard which survived called Cofer Brothers. It had a DQ also.

Then Atlanta hit and hit hard.

longhorn320 · « **Reply #3369 on:** February 21, 2022, 11:17:45 AM »

I grew up in a town of 20,000 so it wasnt really a small town

It felt like a small town to me as I knew a lot of people

In fact I knew most of the 30 man police force very well.

I never got a ticket but did get lectured with a threat to tell my parents if I didnt slow down

utee94 · « **Reply #3370 on:** February 21, 2022, 11:46:39 AM »

Quote from: FearlessF on February 21, 2022, 10:42:17 AM

I grew up on a dead end street in a town of 4-500

I now live on a dead end street in a town of 3-400. Because of the bedroom community status caused by the small city of 70-80,000 within 10 miles, both towns have one bar. no grocery, no hardware

the town that was 4-500 through my high school daze, is near 700. They have a gas/convenience station - beer, cigs, lotto tickets , milk & bread, pizza & donuts

too busy for me

Well then Austin as a moving destination is right out. This city has become really, really big.

It was 200-300,000 when I was a kid. Now the city is almost 1M and the metro area is over 2M.

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3371 on:** February 21, 2022, 11:53:09 AM »

The police force in Cincy in our village pretty much knew who I was. I knew the chief and a sergeant but none of the others. I used to hold wine tastings in the civic center which had signs "NO ALCOHOL ALLOWED" on the doors. The mayor and chief would often come.

I had two that ran over 60 people, you don't have to do much to get folks to drink wine.

That was way too many.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3372 on:** February 21, 2022, 11:53:29 AM »

yup, as is Round Rock

but, I'd find a quiet place near a golf course

maybe near Taylor, there's a dog track of a 9-hole course and decent BBQ

CWSooner · « **Reply #3373 on:** February 21, 2022, 11:54:56 AM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on February 21, 2022, 09:16:06 AM

Towns in Ohio often sprung up every 20 miles, because that is where a tavern or stage coach livery would have been. Travel back then was tough over any distance at all.

I had to work this out in my books where folks traveled quite a bit on horseback, and I probably got it wrong. I figured a lone rider might make 30 miles in a day. A horse walks about 4 mph.

Getting it Right: Time and Distance on Foot and Horse | Celebrating Independent Authors (indiesunlimited.com)

That's a good link.

There's a book of frontier soldier reminiscences called Forty Miles a Day on Beans and Hay. Despite that title, we on the Combat Studies Institute Staff Ride Team at Fort Leavenworth found that 30 miles a day was much more typical for cavalry units on the western plains.
I had a C.O. in A Trp, 1-17 Cav, at Fort Bragg, who had been shot down 5 times while flying scout helicopters in Vietnam. He was a runner. He maintained that over a long enough distance a man can outrun a horse.

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