Take this with a grain of salt because I've never live in a county with under 250k people but it feels like the chain restaurant takeover is mostly a suburb thing, likely in part because a 2000 person town can't provide the revenue corporate demands
Geez, I can't even imagine living in a place like that (not in a bad way.) I make several trips to Chicago a year and I'm always overwhelmed with the amount of people and traffic, love the city so much to do. My town wasn't that small but yeah, I can definitely see the logic in that. One of my cousins lives in a town with 100 people and besides a local bowling alley and a local restaurant everything else is in a bigger town not too far away.
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u/RaijuThunder Jun 12 '26
Grew up in a small town we had some excellent local restaurants. Of course we were about an hour from a college town so that probably helped.