QotD: Everywhere Has Its Problems

What prevents your city/town from being the best place in the country to live?
Submitted by Cherney.

(For the record, I am writing this post about the town grew up in, Trollhättan, not Lund which I moved to about one year ago. It just made more sense that way for some reason.)

Ha ha...soooo many things (all tied together though he he). I mean don't get me wrong, I love a lot of things about Trollhättan, it's a great place to have grown up in. But (and this is quite a huge but to be honest) there are a lot of things that's lacking here too, many of them parts of the reason for me leaving in the first place.

It's too small, to begin with (this is the main reason), only 50.000 inhabitants. I am a city kind of girl, the more people the better, because then something is always happening. And I get bored easily, which is a problem in a place where anything rarely happens. See not only is Trollhättan small, it's also thoroughly uneventful. Of course it depends on what's happening, but over all I prefer places where there's something going on.
This ties together with the second problem, which is the fact that everyone seem to know each other in one way or the other here. If you look closely I think every single person here is connected in some way. This alone is enough to drive a person mad, wouldn't you agree?

Trollhättan has a real small town feel about it, even though there is a lot of places here (in Sweden I mean) that's actually smaller. The people that live here and the way they live is something that I have a very hard time with. See the "cool" people think that they are all that just because they were in like juniour high (and trust me, they are not anymore) and everyone (I mean everyone) goes to the same places when they're going out.

Gees. I would suffocate if I had stayed here. Sure Lund isn't the biggest city either, but it has a lot more people. New people.