We have NO traffic lights, and neither did our former town. We do live within ten miles of a "city" with many services and quilt shops!

My DH was in the Air Force. Every where we went was a large town. We had 2 overseas tours. Japan and England, They had commissary were we could by food.

There was one flashing signal light where my Dad lived in a small town in AZ. It was my clue to make a left turn.

Our small city has removed a majority of traffic lights and replaced them with stop signs. Less maintenance. We also have less traffic as we have lost many jobs. I would take growth over our downturn.

Our town has a population of around 5,000 that does not include the outlying areas nearby. We live about a mile from a state park in a neighborhood full of dirt roads. It's nice and peaceful here, especially when the front gates are closed.

I would rather live in a small town -- unfortunately we have 70,000 in our town. At least I live 12 miles out so only deal with it a couple times a week!

Hi Lynnie - what movie was about your town? I'm lucky Lake Grove is still a village. In fact, I live in the village proper. I love saying that I live in a village. People can't believe it, LOL.

Ah, the pleasures of a country town. Ours is in a big uproar over putting bags on the horses. The town has a huge horse cookie sweeper that they bring out every morning to clean up the streets and buggy parking lots. But it doesn't get the main roads. It was determined that there would be too many accidents with bags on the horses.

Bags are fine for a horse going slow, but they trot them fast around here and the bags flop around. The retired cop has a horse and so he tried one for his rig. It was fine standing there and walking slow, but as soon as he got going faster the horse went bananas. It isn't going to work for us. So if you come to visit Amish country expect some horse cookies on your tires.

If only we could keep forever some parts of our community, culture, but unfortunately progress can change too much in our life.

Wow! La Pine is hitting the big time and you are right - that is a very dangerous stretch of highway. I worked at St. Charles Medical Center in Bend for several years and remember all of the bad accidents coming in from that area! Glad to see they are finally slowing traffic down.