This is Evans city, Pennsylvania. It has a population of 1800

>>73715220
1. Not everyone has the priviledge of choice in everything.
2. They might say the same bout you.

>>73715220
Looks like more depressive than average russian city

they born and used to living there

>>73715220
>Why do towns like this exist?
Deindustrialization and the decline of the coal industry
>Why do people choose to live in them?They were either born there or they move there from the inner cities for low cost of living and cheap rent
>What do they do all day?
Heroin

>>73715302
I live in Newcastle. It has a population of over 300,000 people.

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looks more organised than villages here

>>73715406
Rural Pennsylvania is a pretty comfy place to live if you like the outdoors. There isn't a whole lot of money in the area though, and job prospects there are grim.

>>73715220
Looks comfy.
also
>>73715367
>>73715539

looks comfy, sorta like Twin Peaks , where people in the local bar know you and the girl at the diner get's you your favorite pie without asking

>move here initially to work in a plant/mine at what seems like a good deal because they're paying extra for you to live in rural fuck-hole
>buy a property there because cheap af and the job is good
>factory closes
>house price falls
>can't leave

bim bam boom.

conversely it might be a commuter village for a real city, in which case its just a suburb.

conversely it might have been an old village amidst rural localities and now its just a shithole where farmers get their doctoring and groceries from.

>>73715406
Newcastle is the master city

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>>73715537
garden

>>73715649
It was like that in the 60s, maybe. Now they're just full of old timers waiting to die and rural poverty. It's a very sad situation, actually.

>>73715752
Can you imagine being a kid growing up there? Good movie material.

I know someone who works from home as an Artist. He was living in NYC making around $75k, but $75k in a lot of places in NYC isn't anything.

So he moved to some small town with like 8000 people and lives like a king now.

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>>73715712
Money, Mississippi. Population 100. At least it's not as fucking dank and depressing as Pennsylvania.

>>73715712
Looks like side roads around here

1800 is a lot of people.

>>73715220
we have loads of town with similar population. nothing odd about that

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>>73715876
Bowie Arizona. Population 449. Where are they all?

>>73715876
You know if I was trapped here I don't know if I'd ask anyone for help.. this looks like the place where you end up in some sort of dungeon.

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>>73715876
Looks like a nice place to get murdered by cultists

>>73715835
Watch Gosling's movie, lost river

I grew up in Jim Thorpe, PA. I've seen a lot of towns like this.
The houses are all cheap as fuck and they usually have restaurants and small stores where you can get stuff really cheap.

Generally the people who grow up in towns like this do one of two things -
1. Get out. After highschool they head off to college and end up moving away almost immediately. They really only come back to visit friends/family.
2. Stay. They pretty much spend their entire lives like they're in highschool. They keep the same group of friends and work small jobs at places around town that pays them enough to get by.

Honestly, they're pretty comfy. They have almost no crime and you get to live really well for the amount of money you have.

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>>73715960
Monroeville Pennsylvania. Allegedly a population of 28,000. Looks just as desolate and depressing as Evans.

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>>73715876
Sounds so much fucking worse. You just got a Prue of it on a nice day. Guarantee is worse in almost every way.

Marbleton Wyoming, population 1000. 3 hours out from salt lake City

>>73715220
It's a low density area.
You've got another 180k people living within in a 15 miles radius, hardly all that lonely. There seem to be all kind of required amenities too.
It's not a metropolis, but I really don't see what the problem is. Aside from maybe poverty, but that would be unrelated to urban density, there's plenty of rich low density areas.

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>>73716212
Another picture of monroeville. Looks like it's got the personality of a wet cardboard box.

>>73716351
quite a lot big buildings for 28k town

>>73715220
looks like one of those far away towns in gta san andreas

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>>73715960
>Why don't more people live in the middle of the desert with no industry aside from the gas station and garage??
Fields, eastern Oregon. Population 120. Aptly named. General store, post office, one room elementary school.

and why not? all i need for entertainment is a computer and an internet connection

i could live in any place that offers these luxuries

>>73715406
Meh, the city I live in has a pop of 1,000,000. Nothing that great or special except people dont give a fuck about you.

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>>73716603
From the map, it appears to be an edge city to Pittsburgh (300k inhabitants). The aussie cunt is misrepresenting shit left and right.

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>>73716732
Kingsland Texas. Alleged population 4000. Though I couldn't find a single picture of a house.

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This is the Town of Reine in Lofoten, Norway

Population: 309 humans, 10.000 seagulls, 5.000 crabs

It's not hard to make bretty decent money in rural areas in Norway as long as you don't mind working in the fishing industry and don't mind the fact that there's absolutely nothing to do in your spare time..

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>>73716966
Looks like Wind Waker. Here's another one of Kingsland. I'm guessing there's a reason they shut down the tourist center.

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>live in jew york
>mfw the hospital I'm in right now has a higher population of employees than some of these towns

I'm mad jelly

>>73716966
>that there's absolutely nothing to do in your spare time..
I've never fucking understood this normie meme

Are normies literally unable to do anything at all if they don't have access to a fucking nightclub or something? I mean seriously, there's hardly any difference if you have access to internet. Most people I know spend most of their time just hanging out, wasting time online and drinking, all of which is perfectly doable even in Reine, Norway.

If you have nothing to do in your spare time, then the problem is most likely with you, not with the place in which you're living.

Also, I'm willing to bet that there's tons of outdoors stuff (especially hiking) around that town.

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Centralia Pennsylvania. A town that is literally uninhabitable due to a mine fire that's been burning since the 60's. Population 7.

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>>73716966
It's a bit different to live in a fishing village than to live in an arid or hilly inland area hundreds of miles from the nearest city. Landlocked areas are always poorer.

Pine ridge native reservation near the site of Wounded Knee. Government shithole in the middle of nowhere. Only things to do are blow government bucks on consumerist trash and drink heavily. Population 3300

>>73717285
Wise leaf

>>73717285
fucking this. i hate normies so much.

>>73717301
kek what the fuck

>>73717761
I wouldn't even take my foot off the accelerator if I was driving through this place. Those 7 people are probably hillbillies that mutated from the toxic gas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania

>>73717923
Maybe they're still trying to put the fire out.

>>73716966
>>73717285
Brb moving to norway
>>73717301
Is that supposed to be a road? Looks cool.

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>>73717991
It's an underground coal fire smouldering through veins in the rock. They ain't doing shit.

>>73715220
I grew up in a 2000 people little town, near enough a couple of 20k people larger towns, so a similar situation. I can rightly assure you that it's fucking wonderful living.
I went to live in a big city for uni with the wifey (well gf back then), it was fucking shit. We came right back as soon as we got our degrees.

Now, it must be said that my hometown is rich. Plenty of semi-subsidized agriculture and health/winter tourism to feed the region's economy. The town in your pic looks poor. That is certain to make a sizeable difference in life quality, but then it's not quite an attribute of population, isn't it? I bet you wouldn't choose a big city like Lagos over Evans City just because of its size either.

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>>73717285

You are not from Norwayylmao so you are excused. Growing up in a place like that is a nightmare if you are not interested in fishing, football or drinking hard and fighting om the weekends.

I grew up in a small place in Norway and my interest were music. There was just me and this two other guys a town over. There was just nothing for me there. And if you stick out in a small town here you get talked about in a bad way and people give you shit everywhere.

Tried living in the city for a few years but moved out into the suburbs when i had enough money. I like living in a small place if im near enough the city to catch a concert or something everytime i want.

>>73718112
That was a joke, autismo.

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village i grew up in had a pop. of 939

>>73715611
I think it looks comfy too. Probably a shit place to live but it looks like a cute town anyway.
>>73715649
I love Twin Peaks. That was filmed in North Bend, Washington, in the mountains east of Seattle. It doesn't look like the show anymore, sadly, but the Double R Diner is still there. It's called something else IRL though.

Lmao I've never lived in a place with less than 4 million inhabitants

>>73721786
I'm a city boy myself but that's a little TOO big for my liking.

>>73715885
My highschool had 4,000

My hometown has 600 people.

It's a glorified retirement home, half the population is retired old people. We have like 20 people in the school.

>>73722484
>We have like 20 people in the school.
What's that like? Every student must know each other pretty well.

>>73722837

It's grade school. 2 classes.

Grade 1-2-3 in one class with one teacher, 4-5-6 in the other. I ended up having class with my 2 years younger sister because of it.

And yeah everybody knew one another of course.

>>73715220
>towns
I think you'll find it's called a village. At least in Germany I'd rather live in a village than in a city because it takes mere minutes on a bike to get to "nature" and the air is much better. You can always drive a car to the nearest big city if you feel so inclined, and all the things that are interesting in big cities are public anyway, so you can be there as well. The reverse isn't true, if you live in a city you can't just go to a village and live there without paying an arm and a leg.

>>73718300
looks dutch

>>73715752
shit, that's sad

>>73723031
Sounds rather comfy. Did you have friends there? Good narure and stuff?

>>73723558

It's lost in the mountains about 1km above sea levels. My best friend is from there. It's amazingly beautiful and very comfy, but in the middle of nowhere so there's nothing to do unless you want to be a farmer or a lumberjack. Or are down with long commutes daily.

It used to be a bigger, strriving village, we had the railroad passing through, but decades ago the train stopped passing by there and the village has been on a steep decline ever since.

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>>73723782

There's a pic, I don't have anything better and google never helps.

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Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Population 5,962. The entire town is groundhog themed. The town's most famous resident is a fucking groundhog.

>>73716789
Fucking this.

>>73715220
>Why do towns like this exist?

Marketplaces for rural communities, human geography 101

>Why do people choose to live in them?

Because they grew up there.

>What do they do all day?

Codeine, heroin, fentanyl

>>73715752
Did the people living there tell you that themselves? No? Fuck off

>>73717365
>Wounded Knee
>Pushing some cunt in a wheelchair
Pottery. Thank you anon.

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>>73723782
Was it like this?

>>73724179
>>73724179
Search "deaths of despair" and lol at where they're happening. It's not usually cities.

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A lot of cool places here. What's wrong with living in a quiet place?

I can give another example: Saint-Cirq Lapopie has a pop. of 215. Very nice place where to live when you work in the industries 40 km away or if you're a farmer, a teacher or an artist.

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>>73715220
All the little red pixels in this image are villages like that.

Most countries are not like australia with emptyness between very far away cities.

You can live in villages and be not far away from civilisation because there are people everywere.

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My town has a population of 8000 and 3000 of them leave for 4 months a year.

>>73726154
Is it nicer when they are there or when they leave?

>>73726219
A bit of both.
They're all students so they're obnoxious oslocunts for the most part, so having them gone is good.
On the other hand, all the places you can drink at cater to them and close when they're gone.
I'd say overall the trade's worth it.