Growing up in a small town means you have a unique connection with your surroundings. You've basically grown up with everyone in the town, so you know all of your neighbors and you could get from your house to the local store blindfolded. It's quiet and nothing exciting ever seems to happen. And once you finally move from your small town to a big city, you realize just how different life can be. There are so many different aspects of living in a city that make no sense to you since it's nothing like home. Here's a list of things you find all of the time in any big city, but never experience in your rural hometown.
1. Traffic
Living in a small town means there's likely never any traffic, and being stopped behind a line of cars on your way to work common rarely happens. You're used to back roads and going 55 miles per hour almost everywhere you go. You simply don't understand how people are okay with an insanely long commute that would take 15 minutes back home.
2. Other drivers in general
Your parents always warned you to be cautious of other people on the road, but you never understood just how many laws people will break to go faster. I've watched people drive down the turning lane to pass a line of traffic and not get pulled over.
3. Public transportation
Back home, you never needed to hail a taxi or look at the bus schedule to get from point A to point B. You could just carpool with whoever was available. And ride-sharing service like Uber or Lyft? Those certainly don't even exist in your hometown.
4. Paying for parking
What do you mean I can't just park on the street without paying? Why do I have to pay to park everywhere I go? Where does this money even go to? And do I really have to move my car away from the meter after only two hours?
5. Lack of privacy
There's literally no where that you can go and be by yourself in a big city. There are constantly people everywhere, and most of them are strangers. Back home, you could drive to the local park at night, or go walking in the patch of woods by your school if you really wanted to be alone.
6. Everything being so expensive
You would think that a higher population would mean that lower prices in a bit city. But you find yourself spending way more on your weekly groceries than you would back home. As if that wasn't enough, gas is also more expensive.
