The typical USA

[LouisXIV]

It seems when people many want to see New York, Washington DC, Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas and L. A. While these places are a nice visit, they certainly do not represent the typical American town. Here is more what it is like here: www.buffalonews.com/life/travel/one-tank-trips/article917997.ece

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This is an excellent initiative. So many Americans love to come to Europe to see traditional things that have been preserved, but it is too rare to see how few items of 'Americana' have been preserved around the country. There are those 'theme park' type places like Williamsburg, but people really need to understand that lots of stuff from more recent eras are totally fascinating.

A town set in the year 1940 or 1960 would draw a huge crowd in my opinion.

[LouisXIV]

There are a lot of towns like this in this country. Just get out of the big cities. I enjoy stopping in these small town when traveling for a lunch or dinner in a local restaurant or even one of there more reasonably priced motels. In many of these small towns much of the local business and decisions are make in the local coffee shops. When I moved to Traverse City, Michigan over 40 years ago it was much like this. On Saturday many businesses closed at noon and very little was open on Sunday. now we have all the big box stores that are open seven days a week and some 24/7. I really liked years ago going Christmas shopping down town, going from store to store with the snow flakes coming down around your head. Now you go to the mall and almost forget that it is winter.

[nycgirl]

I recently visited a few small towns, some wealthy New England ones and some earthy Southwest ones. They were a lot of fun, with friendly people, lovely scenery, and tasty food.

One thing that would take some getting used to, though, is the lack of big city conveniences. We had the misfortune of getting not one, but two flat tires in a SW town, but fortunately they were on weekdays. The mechanic told us that some vacationers got a flat tire on Saturday and had to halt their plans til Monday when the auto shop opened. That would drive me mad.