Small Town vs. Big City

American actress Kate Bosworth once said, “I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different.” The controversy about big cities being better than small towns or vice versa to grow up in has been around for the longest time now. I strongly believe that small towns are a much better environment for a child to grow up in than that of a big city.
Ask any person that grew up within a small town they probably knew everyone in their community perhaps even personally. If you knew the doctor well enough when you got sick he would come over and check out what is wrong instead of having to worsen the problem by going to them. Whenever you had needed something that you did not possess you could just borrow it from a neighbor or even someone you come across in town and return it at a later time. Now living in a big city you could never find that tight sense of community you could in a small town. With thousands of people you would hardly know anybody there unlike a town of a few hundred where you know everyone and they know you.
With the number of people in mind that brings me to my next argument, the peace and quiet of a small town. There are no taxi cabs honking at each other and people getting into petty arguments in the center of town attracting unwanted attention. In small towns you will find none of this just the sound of the occasional car driving past your house or neighbors having small talk with one each another. Usually in big cities when people argue they use profanity and I do not think that is a good environment for a child to grow up in neither should you. Living in a small town would have little to no stress unlike a big city with all the noise. My last and final argument is small towns are safer from violence and the influence of gangs. Studies have shown that 1.6% of teenagers have joined gangs a large part of this percentage is in big cities for example Chicago. Small town life