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/^t/Some people claim that dwelling in a small town is very advantageous, maintaining that there is no anonymity, from which the inhabitants of huge agglomerations suffer. However, the question arises, whether the fact that all the faces that you encounter are familiar to you, makes you feel less alone. Besides, there is no place for individuality in small towns, for being other in some aspect than the rest of the community. Here, a slight disobedience of prevailing rules is good enough to make you feel condemned, because everybody knows all the details of your private life.