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Originally Posted by bilbao58

How small can a place be and still be considered a city? This (Robstown, TX) is what I would call a "town." https://www.google.com/maps/@27.7893...7i13312!8i6656

I consider anything below 1 million metro a "town"

because, you know, its the middle of nowhere

Yes, people are less likely to be open when they are not exposed to it. This pattern is found literally everywhere on earth and across all time and cultures.

If you replace some of the more stereotypical American tropes and replaced this meeting with a city in Japan the general xenophobia would probably match.