The ability to find a group of people like you. If you're straight, white, and born in the small town, this isn't a problem. As a gay man, I'd have a lot of tro

The ability to find a group of people like you. If you're straight, white, and born in the small town, this isn't a problem. As a gay man, I'd have a lot of trouble in many small towns. The ability to walk down the street at 3 in the morning and see a non-trivial number of people around. A friend was in a small town teaching for the summer, and he said "So then we went to the bar. I say the bar because there was only one." Where I live, there are 171 listed in the phone book.