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Re:Cities and Ambition (2008) by amyjess on Monday February 26, 2018 @05:29PM (#16469565)
> I had a professor some years ago who summed up Atlanta perfectly for me - "[...] it's the biggest small town in America".

My friends and I regularly make similar comments about Dallas. I very rarely meet someone new without finding out that they are somehow connected to somebody I know.

Sayings like "Dallas is the world's biggest small town" and "I know I shouldn't be surprised, but how do the hell do those two know each other?" are common utterances among people I know. Also, for people I have a ton of oddball connections with, "Dallas is the world's biggest small town, and it's all [name]'s fault".

Re:Cities and Ambition (2008) by madcaptenor on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @09:59AM (#16473837)
The same "small town" thing happens in Philadelphia, where I used to live. This might be a property of cities of roughly that size.