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A teenager growing up in a small rural town wants to get away from it all, to the big city, or abroad, anywhere but the boring old Small Town. Characters that come from this background generally [[Jumped At the Call|Jump At The Call]]. If they don't, expect the [[The Call Knows Where You Live|the Call to come looking for them anyway]].
Compare and contrast with [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here]] and [[Hated Hometown]]. Related to [[Grass Is Greener]], which is about someone in bad conditions dreaming of going to a better place. See also [[Farm Boy]], [[Ordinary High School Student]]. Often seen in stories set in [[Dying Town
Often, however, leads to [[An Aesop]] about [[Home, Sweet Home]] and appreciating what you've got. A common subtype is leaving the [[Close-Knit Community]] and finding that [[Apathetic Citizens]] are much worse.
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== Western Animation ==
* Touched on sometimes in ''[[King of the Hill]]'', specifically the episode where Hank worries about losing Bobby to a more exciting place... like Wichita Falls, home of the Dallas Cowboys training camp. Hank tries to campaign to have the training camp moved to Arlen, with disastrous results, but in the end Bobby says that he would never move to Wichita
* Belle from Disney's ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'': "There must be more than this provincial life!"
* Also Disney, Ariel from ''[[The Little Mermaid]]''. She's an odd example, though, in that in her case the "small town" is actually ''the ocean''.
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