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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly. If you're "rich," you're automatically a sob. If you're smart you go to the 4th tier small college down the road, commuting from home. If you choose ANY 4 yr university besides that one, you think you're better than everyone. If you go to some other school or work elsewhere but eventually return, it's bc you couldn't "make it" in the big world. If you pursue a career in a big city, money is all that matters to you and you've abandoned God and your family.

Some of those 2000 person small town can be tough.[/quote]

This is my hometown 100%. 1500 people, I put myself through college and grad school and have worked my tail off every since. But every career bump I get, the less my family wants to do with me. I am looking at a move to NYC which will basically be the same as disowning my family. It hurts and there is nothing I can do to make it easier.[/quote]

One of my friends here - one of the nicest people you'd ever meet and not at all a big spender - is from one of these 2000 person hometowns, and simply doesn't tell her family about promotions/good news. I thought that was crazy to not celebrate when you slog for 10 yrs and become an owner of a firm or something, but given what you're describing - if it'll just lead to jealousy or petty comments or minimizing contact, I can see why. She started her career in NYC (only for 1-2 yrs) and then moved here - and she has said that her family views NYC as just cutting off the family ties. Not sure what they think happens there, but obviously nothing good in their minds . . . .[/quote]

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