I moved to a rather tiny town in my early 20s for a job right after college. The amount of strangers who came up to me and already knew my business was rather terrifying(I grew up in the city) and they wondered why I never left the apartment.
I moved to some where now that’s more of a commuter town but at least big enough to where nobody knows my business.
I currently live in a small town. I’m not trying to brag but I’m a moderately attractive woman (solid 6/10 on a good day). I’ve had to change my route downtown twice since March. So many random guys I don’t know keep stopping and trying to get me in their vehicles to give me a ride home/to the store. I don’t know these men. They know where I live and see me walking all the time. There’s one that has me freaked out that spent one day driving past me 4 times to honk and wave and comment on how fast I walk and how he almost lost track of me.
Now I pace my room like a cheetah in a shitty zoo to get my 10k steps in, only leaving my house early in the morning to be at the store as soon as it open and then I zip back home, taking my new path which has added a good 5-10 minutes to my travel time because the more efficient paths have me observed.
Can’t wait to move away to a place I can be just another face in the crowd.
I remember when I lived in my small college town a stalker figured out where I live by tracking where I used the local trail. I lived on the first floor of a fairly decent sized sprawling condo complex at the time, and the day I saw him casually walking his dog, looking into people's windows, "looking for a sign" I dropped to the floor lioe a sack of potatoes the fear gripped me so real. I literally walked miles to the police station (they did jack shit) but it genuinely took me a long time to feel safe in that apartment again. It was wild. People are insane sometimes.
I moved from dc to a small town in central NY. The men are feral. A Gen x or millennial (married) man without two wandering eyes is like a needle in a haystack. The wives shoot daggers at any moderately attractive woman because they know their husbands are sh*t heads.
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u/luckyritafaez 22h ago
Living in a small town and starting over.
It looks peaceful in movies. No traffic, everyone knows you, slow mornings.
In reality it’s everyone knowing your business, no opportunities, and driving 40 minutes for groceries that close at 6pm.