Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "Why are small towns disappearing?" video.

  1. That's not a small town, that's a homestead area ;) Really one of the reasons teh US is so spread is that homesteading history. In Europe those isolated houses existed too, of course, but they have consolidated to villages or even agricultural towns (as in a few thousand people inside a wall who mostly still work on their fields in front of the wall)
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  2. "of course a Walmart on the outskirts of town surrounded by the usual fast food places" That is a big part of the problem. Neither of those are places of small town feeling right? You want your restaurant in what used to be the town inn, another place that is more a drinking locality and a small supermarket in the center. Preferably right between church and town hall and a park on the other side of the street with a good place for children to play. That is where life happens in a small town and this is what creates that feeling.
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  3. And a lot of the side streets are so small that cars can't even get through - at least US sized ones ;) That is why I love Cory's channel, he wanders along all those small alleys. https://www.youtube.com/c/CoryMay81
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  4. Japan has many small "towns" - more villages - though if you leave the big plains. Or agricultural areas where you have a house ehre and there between fields. (The last is also true for areas in the Netherlands). I really want to make long trip along the mountain rroads through those small villages and look at all those small shrines (I like small shrines).
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  5.  @MJ-zo5gb  The Akabane video is great to show that feeling. Of course there are houses everywhere, back to back, but apart from that, it does not feel like Megapolis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW2tc3tGoM8 I followed him around on google maps :D Not always easy, but fun.
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  6. But those definitions are official like from the government Can't trust those guys! In Germany the borders are 50, 2000, 5000, 20K, 100K (1M) btw.
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  7. I am sure your confusion is because you never learned the actual definitions (or did not nother to adjust your thinking to them). In Germany for example there are official categories for under 50 people, 50-2000 (village), 2000-5000, 5000-20000 (literally small town), 20K-100K, 100K+ (and million cities but we have so few it's not a real category). But normal people just differentiate between village and city (we only have one word Stadt for town/city ) and may add small or big to it, similar to the above definitions but without respect to the official numbers, purely subjective.
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  8. That heavily depends on the town. Generally there is "young leaving the town to find work" and "young families coming (back) there" (for the small town feeling you could say). Depending on how big the second movement is, the average age can vary drastly.
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