My new home is a city completely surrounded by Chattanooga ~ 7 sq mi. It can’t grow, except up. At least it’s ‘bicycle friendly’.

You know you live in a small town when: churches outnumber restaurants…

You know you live in a small town when you see your first elementary school crush at a family reunion..

When you drive with your hand pointed in a wave signal on top of the steering wheel because you know 95% of the people coming from the opposite direction and they will be personally offended if you don't wave at them.

Happens here all the time! It’s a nightmare at the moment because the farmers are all cutting silage, and tractors are everywhere, getting stuck behind a convoy of them is a regular occurrence. There is also a large dairy farm on the edge of the village, their fields are on one side of the main road into town and the milking parlour is on the other....at milking time the traffic can be held up for quite a length of time while the cows are herded across the road to be milked. The country smells can be pretty ripe too, between piggeries and muck-spreading...only visitors seem to notice, my nose seems to have become accustomed to them!