Are you from a City or a Town...

[Longgrain]

Apparently I just found out I was from a city, despite some of the middle of no-where stuff I post around DU. At least the way the state of Massachusetts defines city.

I saw from a post in the MA state forum that Mass has only about 40 cities...the rest are all towns.

I never considered myself a city dweller...

Of course some people might live in villages or communes or other community structures.

I thought it was just cool to find I was suddenly of the urbanite crowd.

[babylonsister]

1. Are you from MA? Lived there always?

Just wondering because I'm from NY but a smallish town on LI, and live in Houston, so I s'pose I'm in an urbanite setting, though it hardly feels like it.

[Longgrain]

5. Yep same place all my life too...

Except for a year I lived in Worcester MA and a short time I lived in Nashua NH...both big cities compared to where I come from.

[rox63]

2. I'm a city mouse

who has occasionally lived in the country.

[Nite Owl]

3. Grew up in a city

NY, live in a town now. Would love to move back to the city again but it's now too expensive.

[HeeBGBz]

4. Boonie dweller

I live down in the holler.

[Left Is Write]

6. I'm from a city. I live in an alleged city.

[Longgrain]

9. Sounds like my perdiciment...

For a city, I've sure seen a lot of deer, and even an occasional moose, within our borders...

[StopTheMorans]

7. town of about 3,500

[AlCzervik]

8. city dweller but really it's a suburb with too many subdivisions

and no real center.

[maveric]

NH has towns that are larger than some of the cities.

Salem NH, pop. 30,000 is larger than say Berlin, pop 10,000.
Berlin is a "city", Salem a "town".
Some years back Salems residents voted for citihood and rejected it stating that if it becomes a "city", then slums will pop up.
Go figure.

[Longgrain]

18. How does NH define "city"

I think in MA it's based on population...I know of several towns that seem big, but don't have the population to make them a city...

[maveric]

24. Whatever the residents vote on.

Some NH cities have less than 10,000. Salem, on the MA line, has 30,000+.

[Huckebein the Raven]

10. City

[barackmyworld]

11. City of Chicago!

and it's the best

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

12. Village

[Sporadicus]

13. I Grew Up in a Town of About 1,000 People

But I've lived in cities most of the time since, the biggest of which being San Diego. The city I live in now has a population of about 55,000.

[bigwillq]

14. It's offically a city

At least that's what it says on all the signs.

[Longgrain]

17. Once again that sounds like me...

In MA the signs say we became a town in 1885, then a city years later...

I still don't see any of that urban sophistication tho...

[bigwillq]

23. My city is more like a town

There's only like 20,000 people that live there and the town is only like 8-10 miles big.

[Longgrain]

25. I don't know the statistics, but I think that about describes where

I come from, the problem for me is that it's no where near a big city, such as Boston, so I don't have to drive very far to see a cow...

[bigwillq]

26. Well, not too many cows by me

There's a few farms but not that many.

A lot of deer though.

[Longgrain]

27. We get Moose in my "City"

Not to mention foxes and skunks...and by that I mean animals not people...

[Bok_Tukalo]

15. Grannis, Arkansas population 177 (when I lived there)

I got out just in time.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

16. city folk, here

[xmas74]

19. A town.

About 20,000.
Another 10,000 from the area air force base and 10,000 from the university (though neither count in the census).

[Mizmoon]

20. In a tiny African village

by the Yangtze River. God, I loved that river ...

[Lauri16]

21. Village

Just over 900. :)

[tinfoilinfor2005]

22. I am from Tavernier, a very small town that sits on two islands...

Half of the town is on the island of Key Largo, and the other half is on Plantation Key right across the bridge. Go figure.