I'm not from a suburb. I'm not from the city. But I also wouldn't underestimate me. The kids from the small towns have a undeniable bond for reasons that city and rural kids just sometimes don't understand.
In a small town, there's always parades with floats that have your friends atop of them and even your neighbors too. You don't have to worry about not getting enough candy and when you get old enough, you're more than likely in the parade too for your high school athletic event or the band.
With that said, the high school game nights are always a town outing. Almost the whole town is there to cheer on the team! And the high school isn't 500 students per class. The high schools are maybe 500 students total. Everybody knows everybody in a small town.
The same person cuts your hair from when you were a child to the time you go to college and you can't trust anybody else doing it. (Yes, I have trust issues with people cutting my hair.) You form a bond with them. You don't only form a bond with your hairstylist but the local livestock that show up in your front yard. Yes, some small town kids have cattle and a lot of them show livestock. But not all of them are considered hillbillies. We still live in the midwest.
We have one really good thing that the city kids don't have. We don't have traffic issues. Getting from one end of town to the other takes two minutes at the most.
Every small town has their own traditions. My town has our own tradition called the Apple and Pork festival. It's a great time for great food and people to come together and shop around for antiques and crafts that people make out of their home. And obviously there's lots of caramel apples and pork.
While most small towns only have one newspaper, that's not everyone's source of information. Everyone is a news reporter. My town has about three or four Facebook pages where you post items for sale. If a crime happens or someone was in an accident, people know about it within a few minutes by word of mouth. There's a lot of gossip, but at the end of the day everyone has each other's back.
Don't take small towns for granted or the people that come from them. Small towns will always welcome you back home with open arms.
