Sometime in your life you are going to have to answer the question, “When you’re older, would you rather live in the city or in a small town?” To me, living in a small town feels more like home. And here are a few reasons why:

1. Everybody knows everybody.

All of the friends you have from your home town are the same friends you had when you were five years old going into kindergarten. You have seen them through all their adolescent, awkward stages and they have seen you the same way. You know these people inside and out because you were there witnessing the first 18 years of their lives alongside them, and a bond like that is never easily broken.

2. All of the festivals and events.

Considering you live in a small town, nothing really exciting happens that often. But when it does happen, you are guaranteed to run into somebody you know at every event. Festivals and events have a way of bringing everybody together and by the outcome of the crowd, it’d be hard to believe that many people live inside your small town.

3. Apple picking.

No matter what small town you are from, there will always be an apple picking farm close by. And as soon as the summer season ends and Autumn approaches, everybody will be spending their weekends climbing apple trees and eating apple cider donuts.

4.The first snowfall.

In a city, the first snowfall quickly gets ruined by tire marks on the streets and the foot trails of thousands of people on their way to start their busy days. But in a small town, one of the best feelings is waking up in the morning and looking out your back window to a field covered in fluffy, fresh snow completely untouched by mankind.

5. Always having a scenic route.

Small towns are made up majorly of back roads, even the main roads aren’t busy enough to refer to them as “main roads”. This means that no matter where you are going at any time of day, you will always have an enjoyable ride there with a beautiful view of the mountains and hills in the distance.

6. Leaving home.

The best part about living in a small town is you learn to appreciate it more once you leave home. You learn to value the closeness of the community - grieving as a whole once a tragedy occurs and celebrating as one once we hear good news. Coming from a small town is comforting because it gives you all of the life lessons and morals that you need to leave and experience the world outside of it, but it also guarantees you a home to come back to you if ever you decide that your small hometown is where you belong.