On the other hand you know you're from a BIG CITY if...

[Robinrs]

You have NO IDEA who your neighbors are... or care
Your excuse for being late to work includes an elevator
Your senior class is in the thousands
You can cheat and no one in town will know
You are always a few blocks from "the bad side of town"....

 

[mom2grace]

Originally posted by Robinrs
You are always a few blocks from "the bad side of town"....

LOL!! We just moved into Indianapolis and this is soooo true! People "hear" our address and assume it's a bad neighborhood....then they come over and are amazed!

You have several parishes to choose from if you are Catholic!

You are really in the "city" when you move there knowing you will have to send your kids to private school.

You can look out your window and see traffic at 2AM.

You have 4 locations of your favorite supermarket within 15 minutes of your house.

 

[disneyjunkie]

There are more than 5 elementary schools within easy walking of from your house.

When you give someone directions, you speak in terms of blocks not miles.

 

[orvilleair]

1. It's hotter and where's the country breeze.
2. Get one inch of snow downtown and everyting shuts down.
3. Gotta drive to the suburbs to catch the latest movie.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

You can flip off another driver and not fear actually knowing them (NOT that I do that!)

 

[Robinrs]

Originally posted by disneyjunkie


When you give someone directions, you speak in terms of blocks not miles.

It took me YEARS not to say "blocks" here in Atlanta... they looked at me like I was CRAZY!

 

[mistaroo]

When driving and when someone asks you "how far is _blank_" you respond in time not distance. The actual distance is unimportant as the destination may only be four miles away but since it takes you 45 minutes to get there in rush hour, you simply reply "45 minutes".

 

[Microcell]

At anytime of the day or night, you can find a grocery store open.

You can meet someone and never see them again!

 

[Hagred]

You can tell time by how many ambulance sirens you hear. (I live off a main artery: two ambulances for lunch, at least one ambulance for rush hour)

 

[janette]

You don't know you can pass a car on a 2 lane highway.

You've never seen a tumble weed.

Both of these were things my girls discovered a couple of years ago when we drove through West TX. My then 10yo DD was telling someone that I'd driven on the wrong side of the road! Figured out that it was when I was passing, there aren't many 2 lane roads here and most are residential so just never do that.

 

[Robinrs]

You wonder why someone is smiling at you and why everyone is so nice..

You're amazed at how loose people are with their belongings and how they don't have a trillion locks on their doors

You wonder why every SPEAKS to each other!