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In response to "Jason Aldean tries to explain away his threatening "Small Town" song -- (link)" by Beaker 🍺

I'm from one of the smallest possible towns. It's not some crime free "we all look out for each other" utopia

Posted by Reagen Jul 19 '23, 08:30

Only someone who's never lived in an actual small town could think this.

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i grew up in exactly the kind of place he's singing about. anyone who could get out since the 80s basically have. poorest county in MD now - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 09:12
Word. And do we need a poll? Smallest town you've ever lived in? - Reluctant Cynic Jul 19, 09:05 23
- 250-275 annual pop. Swell to 700-800 in summer. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request Jul 19, 12:59
- As a toddler we lived on Sullivan's Island, a spit of sand part of a barrier reef I understand no longer exists on Carolina coast -- nm - zeitgeist Jul 19, 10:46
- Perry, OK 5200 people -- nm - Pippy Quintas Jul 19, 10:17
- Where I live currently is ~9,200 in the borough proper as of 2021, but we’re surrounded by other suburban municipalities as well. -- nm* - znufrii 🦄 Jul 19, 09:52
- Athens OH I think had 5k permanent residents at the time but >16k students. My grandfather lived in a one-stop-sign town in OH pre-WWII - Max Jul 19, 09:40
- Kurtistown, HI Population 2-3.5K people depending on when counted - JD Jul 19, 09:37
- did you ever have a chili dog outside the Tastee Freeze? -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:35
- Palmer Lake, Colorado has a population of 2,654 as of 2021 - and we lived there in the late 70s where it was much smaller. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 19, 09:34
- Brooklyn. Only 2+ million. -- nm - Krusty Jul 19, 09:34
- my hometown proper is less than 1k but adjacent to a city of about 8k -- nm - hollywood big shot Jul 19, 09:30
- Weehawken-10 years. 14000 people. -- nm - Diva Jul 19, 09:28 1
  - There are only two reasons that I know such a place exists. - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:33
- My hometown was about 10-12k growing up. Similarly our first house was in a town of about 10k. That's about as small as it gets for me -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 09:25
- The small town I lived in from age 8 to 18 was about 1200 at the time -- nm - mara Jul 19, 09:25
- Bethel, AK was 6,325 in the 2020 census -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:23 4
  - You grew up in Alaska? -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 09:29 3
    - No. I took a job there in the mid-90s. I thought the way RC phrased it was lived in at any stage of life. -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:33 2
      - Ah true, he said "lived in". Still, I didn't know you lived in Alaska either :) -- nm - oblique Jul 19, 09:35 1
        
        Yeah, I have lived in WA, ID, and AK. I've always been a northwest guy -- nm - crash davis Jul 19, 09:42
- Three that are currently smaller than 4500. One of them is currently at 1,717. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:23 1
  - The population of the town I currently live in is 10,408 ... but that's kind of a technicality. The GV area's pop is just shy of 400K. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 19, 09:36
- Depends what year you sampled in but it bounced between 175 and 225. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 09:20
- Where i grew up (from 5 to 18) - it was about 35,000 then, felt smaller. -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 09:08
Except for during Christmas when a career driven big city woman visits. -- nm - Dano Jul 19, 08:57 1
- (this is very funny.) -- nm - 🏳️‍🌈 judge jones 🏳️‍🌈 Jul 19, 10:32
Hampton, Georgia. 4 shot/killed on Saturday. 3 officers shot on Monday in apprehension attempt. Suspect killed on scene. -- (link) - Qale Jul 19, 08:47
Yeah, but that's in Canada. In the US, we all have guns and are white in small towns, so you know, it's safer. -- nm - Jackass Aldean Jul 19, 08:36
That doesn’t sell records to suburbanites. -- nm - spamlet Jul 19, 08:35 3
- Oh, it's absolutely selling a fantasy of identity to people who would reject that they play identity politics. -- nm - Reagen Jul 19, 08:44 2
  - And that will be the next defense—“There’s never any outrage when rappers talk about shooting cops and slapping women, in every song.” -- nm - Flavorize Jul 19, 08:51 1
    - That's really out dated. I would venture that there's more songs about the rappers slapping their men these days -- nm - JD Jul 19, 09:05
Yeah, for as long as cities have existed, they've been home to people from small towns/villages who were made to feel like outsiders. -- nm - Roger More Jul 19, 08:33
yeah, but how do they feel about lynchings? -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Jul 19, 08:32
My mother, who still lives where i grew up, a pretty small city, will swear she feels safer walking downtown Toronto at night vs where she lives. -- nm - Andie Jul 19, 08:31

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I'm from one of the smallest possible towns. It's not some crime free "we all look out for each other" utopia

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