Yeah, around that. That's including the weird people walking around downtown that ask me if I have any alcohol on me
Reno: ~250,000 Biggest Little City In The World! (The town where I grew up had less than 100, that's right, 100 people.)
dude we are like the smallest town EVER but there were 1000 kids in the high school last year...so yeah. and it doesn't help we are right on i-95 and they keep changing the city limits. in the actual town there are only like 6000 people, but it's one of those dumb things that people living 20 miles away use that as their address. it's dumb. and i hate this place.
Rolla, MO, my college town: Approx 16,000 people, 5,000 of them are college students. I hate this fucking place. Apparentley, 16,000 people isn't enough to keep a Best Buy, Target, shopping mall, nice restauraunts and entertainment venues, so all we have is a fucking Wal-Mart. The only good thing to ever come to this town, was a few years ago before I was here, was Lewis Black did a show on campus. Later, on an apperance on Conan O'Brien, he completley went off on the town in what I think is the best commentary on Rolla ever written. But if you ask some of my fellow students, to them, Rolla is like New York City. They're from towns that have a smaller population than my high school graduating class, and think this place is heaven. But ask any student here from a larger city, they'll agree with me when I say someone needs to drop a nuke on this place (when we're not here obviously) and put this hellhole out of its misery. Chesterfield, MO, my home: 46,802. Don't let that fool you. Chesterfield is one of hundreds of cities that make up the St. Louis metro area. The entire STL area is about 2.7 million. St. Louis County, which is one of several counties in the STL area, and where I am, is 1 million. I used to think St. Louis sucked, until I moved to Rolla. I fucking love St. Louis and would give anything for them to pick up the campus and move it 60 miles east so I could live at home and commute to school. Anyways, I voted >1,000,000 because I refuse to call Rolla my home.
Oxnard, CA Population-180 something thousand. We're semi-well known for strawberries and gang problems. Exciting, eh? It's about an hour and a half drive north of LA, for those who care.
dude the walmart thing kills me. ever since we got a superwalmart built in (the sucky part is that it is literally 2 minutes away from delaware and we still have to pay tax...couldn't they move the damn thing over 20 feet?) everyone is like, dude let's go hang out at walmart. oh.my.god. can people be any less hicky? get lives.
Amen. Attempting to get kicked out of Wal-Mart at 3am is the most fun I've ever had while staying within legal boundaries. Yikes, Todd, you really ought to transfer to Eau Claire, Wisconsin. It's not that far from St. Louis, considering. Even farther off-topic: My cousins lived in Ballwin for a while, where's Chesterfield in relation to that?
We like to talk to fast food restaurant employees through the drive-thru intercom things. I think the most exciting thing I've heard of hear is Weird Al or Carlos Mencia coming. My town may be around 200,000, compared to your guys' 3 or 4000, but the town seems like it's literally split;one side normal, the other...well...you aren't allowed to wear Cowboys or Raiders football jerseys there or else you may just end up with a 9mm bullet up your ass.
we are on i-95, like i said before, and the mcdonalds where i work is literally right off the exit. so we get all kinds of famous people in there, like last time it was fabolous. of course i didn't care, but i am the only one there that listens to metal, it was funny cuz they were all like, well what would happen if linkin park came in here, huh? whatever.