What is wrong with small towns?

I’m from NYC, but because I travel and have dated women from all over the US, I have spent a lot of time in small towns.   I’m going to use 15,000 people or less as a small town.

Here is the most recent reason why you should not live in a small town:

The woman I’m dating is from VT.  She moved around a lot but spent the last 2 years of HS in a small town.

Nothing remarkable about the town, nothing at all, not a single thing really.

Only thing that is memorable at all, is she knows everyone, and everyone knows her.

The problem with that is that people talk trash about one another.  And since she is from noplace, VT it seems magnified to her.

For example, my gf knows a fat, well morbidly obese woman, who she went to HS with 8 or 9 years ago, that has a serious personality problem.  She likes to talk trash about people and get them all worked up and then she enjoys the drama.

This is fine with me, I don’t care, but my gf seems to care.

I think it is because she is from a small town, and this obese crazy woman might know the same people she knows, well, it’s a town of like 3,500 people max, so they all know everyone.

Now I’m not sure why my gf would care what other people think of her.  I’m not sure why this obese, crazy woman would care about what my gf does either.

I certainly don’t care about it.  I think it is amusing to see two 25 yr old women fight about, ‘who said what to whom’.

But then again, I am an adult who has a life, a job, and things to do during the evening.

There is more childish, immature, 6th grade, he said she said drama in this pathetic sad, small town, bullshit.

But I’m from a real place, that has an active nightlife, and I don’t care, so I’m not interested in who did what to who.

I do wish that they would both mature faster and learn that it isn’t important what people think, it’s important what people do.

You can’t change what people say about you, your real friends will not listen to gossip, and people that listen to gossip are not your friends.

I love my gf, I’m not sure why this obese, unhappy woman would talk about my gf, I’m not sure why my gf would care.

I’m not sure how this obese woman even got married, to be honest, but who cares?

I have a life, I have no time for the small town politics that these two ladies share.

I still miss the woman I lost, I love the woman I have with me now, all the rest is he said, she said, BS.