Small Town Life Research Paper

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A big change in my life was me moving from a city where I was raised to a small town where I have never lived before besides when I was a baby. I had lived in California since I was a baby, I grew up in California. In California is were I was raised, it was a big city with many different towns that were only like ten to fifteen minutes away. I had fit so good there, I had my family and my friends that I grew up with and even a sport I was actually good at that I played in since I was 4 years old. Well my older sister Courtney had gotten far behind in school because she made tons of mistakes, mind you my grandparents and very little of my dad’s side of the family live in Worland Wyoming, well my dad had gotten the idea to try out on moving to …show more content…
In big cities you have more attitude, more space, and things are just handled a lot different then towards a small town. Small towns they are nice people and in big towns people could be really rude, things can mean different things when you are in a small town compared to a big city. Their attitudes and reactions and even education is a lot different . Living in California, it makes you have a bigger attitude, more violence and more things to do as a teenager. You actually get to live your life without other people sitting there in a small town knowing every little thing you do as the seconds go by, you have privacy based on if you make it that way. Yes in a city people do judge you, but in a small town there are people who will judge by everything you do. I can say that I cannot be myself in this small town, nobody understands me, towards when I go to California this summer, I can actually be myself and everyone there will understand me and will not judge. I did not like the fact I have to change the way I was raised because of the small town I live in. It is something that still bugs me till this

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