Small towns vs Big city

Things I miss about living in a small town:

1. Seeing people you know at the grocery store.
2. Knowing all your neighbors.
3. Knowing all the parents of the kids your child goes to school with.
4. Living 5 minutes from everything you need (groceries, bank, gas, school and work)
5. Walking to all these places that are just a few minutes away.

Things I like about living in a big city:

1. Not seeing people you know at the grocery store. (somedays you just need to be alone)
2. Not having nosy neighbors. (but that sense of community just isn't there)
3. Having lots of school choices (but hate having to pay the price)
4. Living 5 minutes from the mall and other forms of nonessential entertainment.
5. Walking through Blount Cultural Park.

Ok so this is a simplified list of things.  I don't even live in either of these places anymore.  Now that we are further from the city, but not really in a small town  I came up with this.  We love where we live and it has a mix of all of these traits.  I'm still closer to malls and movies than in my hometown, but the grocery store is just as far.  We have great neighbors that we know better than we did when we lived in the city, but don't know them like the ones I had growing up.  

You know things always seem better from your childhood, probably because you don't have the worries then you have as an adult.  Makes everything from that time seem rosy.  

Now here's a funny story...My hometown grocery store has been a Piggly Wiggly since my birth.  Well funny thing happened the other day.  Driving down the road a Piggly Wiggly truck passes us and Taylor starts yelling "look mom, a grocery truck".  I just thought that was funny because he's only been to one of those when we visit my parents and maybe only a handful of times been in the store.  However he recognized "the pig"!  I'll give them that for some good brand recognition.  One day I'll have to post the picture of me at Taylor's age with "the pig".  It's pretty funny.