The Importance Of Living In Centre, Alabama

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I live in Centre, Alabama, which isn’t the most exciting place to live. Matter of fact it is very, very boring. There is barely anything fun to do, maybe besides the drive-in. Our population is only three thousand-six hundred and seventy-seven, while places elsewhere have populations of thirty-eight point eight million. Centre is not pronounced like “century,” instead it is pronounced like “center.” The biggest town from Centre is Gadsden, which is like forty-five minutes away. Centre can also be a fun place to live at certain times.
Centre is surrounded by trees. It’s like everywhere you turn there are more trees to remind you that you live in the middle of nowhere.Now people are cutting the trees down, which isn’t that great. The one place

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