You have to explain where you live by naming the closest city nearby.

You recognize everyone by the car that they drive.

“There’s normally a cop sitting right up there” is an every day thought driving to and from work.

It only takes two songs to drive across town so you have to choose wisely.

You hear things about yourself that you didn’t even know about.

You walk around Wal-Mart with your friends because there isn’t anything else to do.

You don’t have many choices so everyone ends up with someone’s ex and creates WW3.

There aren’t any cool snapchat stickers with your town name.

Your entire high school’s population was about the size of an average school’s graduating class in the city.

The closest mall is 45 minutes away.

You know where every back road will take you.

Rivalries between schools never end.

You introduce yourself to adults by “I’m the son/daughter of _______________.”

Directions are like, “Go down the dirt road past the big church and if you pass a broke tractor you went too far.”

Just about every party that you’ve been to is in a field.

Truck beds are swimming pools.

It was casual to see students being dropped off at school on tractors.

There is only one stoplight.

Everybody knows everybody and you wouldn’t want to grow up anywhere else.