LibraryLover Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 :iagree: Cin-- our kids would have been like exotic zoo animals there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleWMN Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I would not. :) My family wouldn't match any of their demographics. I think if you're all white and all -'American looking' you'd feel comfortable, so I can see the appeal. We are not the above. Ditto. Been there, done that. Everyone knew who I was b/c my daughter was the only black person in town. I prefer cities. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OnTheBrink Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Absolutely. I'd love a slice of Americana that still cherished good values. See, I thought that, too, about small towns. Then I moved to one. It was quaint. It was cute. It was nestled in the forests of the Ozarks. It had a nostalgic "Main Street". It also had more back-stabbing, gossiping, two-faced, hypocritical jerks in one place than I'd ever seen before. And those were just the folks in our Sunday school class. Strangers would come up to me and question my son's parentage. Surely, he was adopted (said with disdain and a sneer) because of his skin color. I couldn't go to get gas for the car or go to the grocery store without someone knowing who I was and me not having a clue who they were. In short, it was awful. All my illusions about Mayberry were shattered into microscopic shards. We won't even go into how one female middle school teacher was arrested for an inappropriate relationship with a 13 year old boy, or how one middle school teacher, who was married to a high school teacher, had an affair with another high school teacher. When the population of the town is 1,400, nothing is secret. And, if you hadn't lived there for at least 30 years, you were a new-comer. And, if you didn't buy your car at the one and only car dealership and mechanic shop, forget getting any service there. They'd outright refuse you. It wasn't Mayberry; it was Stepford. I hated it and was absolutely giddy when we left there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucyStoner Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 No, I will stick to my city. I am a city girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imprimis Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 No. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristusG Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Yes. I'd love for my kids to grow up running and playing outdoors, with lots of room to roam. Everyone may (or may not) know each others business, but it would also be nice to have everyone keeping an eye on each others kids. I'm a very quiet/shy person and so are my kids so it would be nice to see the same people all the time to get to know them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketgirl Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 (edited) I'm city grown (Southern California), but raising kids in a tiny town. If Mayberry existed I'd probably try it, but it doesn't. I have been living in a small town for 15 years now though and as my kids grow in it, I find it more limiting than "safe". Edited August 20, 2011 by rocketgirl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serenade Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Absolutely. I'd love a slice of Americana that still cherished good values. Me, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 never Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThatCyndiGirl Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 As long as it was set in Canada, and not as closed to new ppl as small towns tend to be, even now. So, Dog River, then? ;) (I would move to Dog River in a Nova Scotia second if I could!) :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nestof3 Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Only if I could marry Andy Taylor. What a great dad. Does any dad actually talk to their sons like that? Far better than a good night hollered from the living room. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
helena Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 No, I can't live without a vegan Vietnamese restaurant in my life. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 I love the show, but would not want to live there. Where are the people of other races?? More diversity, please. I remember hearing something about how the producers wanted to add a black family to the show but Andy Griffith didn't agree because he didn't think it was realistic for the time and place being portrayed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missiemick Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 Yes, but only if it was really like Mayberry. I grew up in a small town that was terrible -- just because it's small doesn't mean the people are nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negin Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 just because it's small doesn't mean the people are nice. Very true. Good point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slartibartfast Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 No. The explosive goat would be the deal breaker. :tongue_smilie: :lol::lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Word Nerd Posted August 20, 2011 Share Posted August 20, 2011 We already do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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