> At least in small towns you have community centres, people know who you are, often a local identity, vibrant social networks and access to the outdoors. Othe

> At least in small towns you have community centres, people know who you are, often a local identity, vibrant social networks and access to the outdoors. Other than access to the outdoors I would say the rest of that doesn't apply to almost any small town in the USA - may just be a canadian thing. In the USA we have meth, heroin, and a 2/1 church to local business ratio.