Small Towns, Big Communities

For the past several decades, there has been a tendency toward bigger: bigger businesses, bigger technology, and bigger cities. We have seen a nationwide push from all sectors of industry toward this ambiguous “bigger” that is supposedly synonymous with “better.” But is bigger really better? Costs and benefits aside, this question affects our day-to-day lives in very tangible ways, beginning with the places we call home.

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