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/^t/Small town reality may sometimes appear as a menacing loop tightening around your neck. The more you struggle, the greater the pain. You desperately attempt to find a solution, but the fact is that there is none. Leaving behind all the monotonny, boredom and narrow-mindedness is the only way to cope with it. The most common inscription on the grey walls of the town is "NO FUTURE", which seems to be the most appropriate token of inhabitants' attitudes and the town's gloomy atmosphere. Small towns are undoubtfully not the best places on earth to live in.