Setting


Every town should have...

Australian town

  • General store
  • Gasoline pumps
  • ATM
  • Post office
  • Restaurant
  • Hotel

mack's little burgh

  • School (K-12)
  • Cemetery
  • Worship center
  • Art gallery
  • Hardware store
  • Lawyer's office
  • Deli/convenience store
  • Laundromat
  • Oil/excavation/construction business
  • Post office
  • Town hall
  • Bank
  • Library
  • Professional offices
  • Volunteer fire dept. & rescue squad
  • Fairground
  • Dump
  • Road maintenance/municipal garage
  • small outbuildings business
  • Gas station

Auntbeast's town of less than 100

  • post office
  • convenience store/gas station/deli
  • water treatment plant
  • 4 churches
  • hunt camp

dwc1970's town - population 776

  • Paint/glass store
  • Bank
  • Fire station
  • Liquor store
  • Meat distributor
  • Hardware store
  • Two corner gas stations
  • Furniture store
  • Restaurant
  • Barber shop
  • Drug store (the store my mom and dad owned)
  • Library/City Hall
  • Restaurant
  • Post office
  • Hotel (which had been abandoned but now serves as offices)
  • Tavern
  • Small supermarket
  • The "junk store" as my sister and I called it
  • Feed store
  • Town hall/grange
  • Gas station

(https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382305)