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Top 10 best small towns

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act.resist
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Traverse City and soon to be Bozeman <3

http://www.fodors.com/news/best-small-towns-in-usa-6591.html
Mar 20 2013 10:25AM
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cope+
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Repping Walla Walla <3
Mar 20 2013 10:34AM
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Ski_the_east01
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P-town fabbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbulous
Mar 20 2013 10:37AM
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.Hugo.
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I wouldn't even consider most of those "small towns" let alone call them "towns". Anything over 10,000-15,000 is a city imo.
Mar 20 2013 10:38AM
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CluckaChuck
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Traverse City Michigan? I love it up there!
Mar 20 2013 10:39AM
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act.resist
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i lived in traverse city for most of my life :) it is a great place indeed
Mar 20 2013 10:41AM
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CluckaChuck
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no way haha, my family has a small cottage beside nubs nob haha.
Mar 20 2013 10:46AM
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act.resist
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ah verrry nice. ive only skied at nubs nob once, but it was a pretty coo place.
Mar 20 2013 10:54AM
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fortyvalve
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i'm glad Brattleboro is in there, it really is a nice town
Mar 20 2013 11:13AM
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Park_Ranger
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damn Marquette is way sicker than TC
Mar 20 2013 11:15AM
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WhiteBurd
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Torch lake is one of the coolest lakes, the water is amazing. Off course the sand bar is epic
Mar 20 2013 11:15AM
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Park_Ranger
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and actually a small town, I wouldn't say the same thing about TC
Mar 20 2013 11:16AM
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*SNO*
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I love their rap...

Mar 20 2013 11:17AM
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chubbspeterson
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brattleboro is really nice but there are definitely shitty parts of towns with a lot of white trash and crack heads. kinda surprised it made the list
Mar 20 2013 11:21AM
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act.resist
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i actually agree.

although tc pertains to an older group looking for wineries, breweries, classy dining (ie doctors, retired people, business people traveling from chicago, doctors...doctors) AND a family with kids (the great wolf lodge, cherry fest, beaches, suttons bay, empire, ect.)

while marquette is strictly outdoors and college life.

traverse city is just VERY touristy.
Mar 20 2013 11:33AM
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act.resist
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also oddly enough, traverse city has a smaller population than marquette. but is definitely more expansive
Mar 20 2013 11:35AM
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.AR6rider.
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Traverse City is awesome! I was just up there in October.
Mar 20 2013 11:38AM
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_Garagely_
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Ely, Minnesota should have been on that list. Ely is such a sick town.
Mar 20 2013 11:43AM
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jpastor
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Burlington is the shit
Mar 20 2013 12:37PM
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.frenchy
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I go to P-Town for vacation every summer..... Only 1 thing I hate about the town though.


small towns FTW
Mar 20 2013 12:47PM
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status_whitegirl
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this, I had to drive through there a couple times to get to my old college, I only saw about half the town though.

Lake Placid should've made that list.
Mar 20 2013 12:52PM
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Park_Ranger
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funny that you say this, because my aunt and uncle live in TC. They are both doctors and have 3 little kids haha. But I can say that marquette offers an ample night life, and there is actually a lot of things going on down in the harbor during the summer months... kind of like TC. I would also say that MQT is as much of a family community as TC, you just don't see that aspect of the community when your in the dorm. Give it another year and a half plus a summer spent up here working someplace in town, and you will get a really good taste of what actual community members are like, not just kids in the dorm and on campus.


Mar 20 2013 1:03PM
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NotGhood
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Stratford Ontario
Mar 20 2013 1:12PM
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JeremyClarkson
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Lol how is Brattleboro up there? Huge heroin/narcotics problem, trashy hicks and that godawful hippie who walks around naked in the summer. Its basically a smaller and less shitty version of Rutland.   
Mar 20 2013 1:34PM
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Dunnah
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Ellicottville, NY!

Awesome little town with two great mountains (if you want to call them that).

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Mar 20 2013 1:37PM
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act.resist
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you're right, i really don't get out of the dorms much seeing that i dont have a car so i don't know a lot about marquette. (ive become to despise dorm life).

but like i said, the reason that tc is on the list is because it caters to tourists.
Mar 20 2013 2:18PM
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Hammyslapwagon
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Mar 20 2013 2:21PM
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jblaski
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"Small Towns" don't have 37,000 people in them.
Mar 20 2013 2:29PM
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pat_in_the_hat
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im so glad to finally be out of Bozeman
Mar 20 2013 2:31PM
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Tinga
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Door County WI has a ban on chain hotels, shops and dining? that's pretty neat.
Mar 20 2013 2:32PM
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no_steeze
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ha brattleboro. where i'm from that's the big city
Mar 20 2013 2:40PM
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troupe
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Asher roth is killing it
Mar 20 2013 3:54PM
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gotti
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LOL Provincetown, MA is a gay community
Mar 20 2013 4:01PM
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Chubz.
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i hate their highschool, ellicottville hs can suck my cawk

but the town is really cool
Mar 20 2013 4:08PM
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Rajna
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Traverse City and Petoskey are both sweet but since I'm from michigan that's a given.

I always thought cape cod was pretty dope too, and if you've ever been stinson beach in california that place is super nice.
Mar 20 2013 4:13PM
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howlongcanausern
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walla walla sucks ass, full of repubtards and is in the middle of wheatfields
Mar 20 2013 4:25PM
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Chubbs.
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Cooperstown NY... Rep
Mar 20 2013 5:18PM
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Dunnah
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Yeah I can't really speak for the highschool. I just take a bunch of trips down there a year and stay at my buddy's chalet.
Mar 20 2013 5:19PM
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BrownBomber
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Don't know how Hood River, OR isn't on this list. Definitely the best small town in the country
Mar 20 2013 5:23PM
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act.resist
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i went to high school with that kid haha

theres a group called "The Bay Family" who legitimately think they're gonna make it in the game......

http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/TheBayFamily/profile/

Mar 20 2013 5:26PM
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no_steeze
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yeah brattleboro is quite grim
Mar 20 2013 6:21PM
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whoa-dere
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mineral point
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Mar 20 2013 6:44PM
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FerrisBueller
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Snowmass Village

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Mar 20 2013 7:02PM
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t-roy
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i've had some good times in traverse city, including proposing to my wife on the beach of their property on the old mission peninsula...really nice place. hoping to move there in a few years if we can find a practice there to buy.
Mar 20 2013 7:13PM
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foodbuffet11
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Providence Heights, whea da pow cas geit bank in flow, flow holla back. Me be seein yous at da cas slops. be reckin a horse.
Mar 20 2013 7:18PM
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*SID*
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You call Bozeman small? The town I used to live in had a population of around 600.
Mar 20 2013 7:19PM
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JIB_WALRUS
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Wenatchee, not exactly the smallest but still dope if you like the outdoors.
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Mar 20 2013 7:23PM
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Hoeseph
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i'm thinking about going to college there if i get enough money from them. is there any good skiing around there?
Mar 20 2013 7:26PM
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ski_ENDUB
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glad to see someone already posted this.
Mar 20 2013 7:27PM
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c_roll
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There are literally so many of these top 10 small towns in America lists that its stupid. My town has been on like 20 of these (Saratoga Springs, NY, bitch)



/claim
Mar 20 2013 7:54PM
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ThaLorax
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Fuck off, don't go giving away the actual cool places to live.


And LOL at Healdsburg,CA. They do have great mtn biking near there though.
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