I visited your city a couple of times in the last few days and found the people to be very friendly and the merchants to be helpful. This is most refreshing in this day and time and is in contrast to what I am accustomed to in my Large Georgia city home town. We have places to go and things to do but not the down home hospitality that you town still has.
Progress is nice but often much of value is lost.
Bigger is definitely not necessarily better.