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Originally Posted by marmac
----" everybody knows everybody"--
I think that phrase is over used way too much.
In a small town of under 1,000----maybe
Heck, I know people who live in towns of about 5,000 and the people on their square block don't even know each other.
In a city of 10,000-----it is laughable to use that phrase- " everybody knows everybody".
Heck, I commuted to a town of 7,000 for my job and most of the employees who were from that town had never heard of their fellow employees who were from that same town before they got hired.
I believethat phrase--" everybody knows everybody"--only holds true if you have a bad reputation and get your name in the paper's court section a lot.  |
I hope you are right
But maybe it is different over here. In the States people move a lot, picking new places on boards like this one
In Europe people usually don't move to small towns they don't have any relatives in. When I visited my new town for the first time in order to inspect the apartment, it indeed seemed like a lot of people knew each other, joking across the streets, nodding to each other in that familiar way, etc. Even the real estate agent told me everybody knows everybody in that town
I guess I could not even tell 10,000 people apart, not even 1,000, let alone remember details about them.
But people seemed nice, so I hope they will accept me
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