While the dream of moving to a small town in a beautiful rural
area is common among many Americans, that dream often turns into a
nightmare for those who decide to follow it. More than half of the
people who move to small towns in recreational places will move
away in less than five years, and their rapid successive moves are
often marked by anger and frustration as they encounter the
realities of poor job possibilities, an impersonal life, and a
deteriorating natural environment. Jobes describes the experiences
of newcomers, and oldtimers, to Bozeman, Montana, a small Rocky
Mountain town Jobes has observed and researched since the early
1970s. Through interviews and observations, Jobes has found that
newcomers arrive with unrealistic illusions about life in a small
town and that life in such places is simultaneously complex and
dynamic.
According to Jobes, people who make the move to small towns
surrounded by a beautiful natural environment tend to experience a
short period of euphoria followed by disillusionment and the
decision to move away, while those who stay accommodate to the
inevitable transformations of the local community and the
surrounding natural environment that they and other newcomers have
created. Jobes examines the changes that take place in these areas
as development and growth cause the natural environment to rapidly
develop and as the influx and constant turnover of new residents
gradually undermine the personal and familiar foundations for the
social community. The demographic and environmental changes, Jobes
concludes, impose dynamic adjustments within the community, and the
slower patterns of small town life give way to the faster and
disjointed styles of the city.
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