How does a city girl prepare herself to move with her fiancee to small town atmosphere – his birth home?

Sports Maven: How does a city girl prepare herself to move with her fiancee to small town atmosphere – his birth home?
Fiancee has retired back home to and has become involved in the political wranglings and development of the small town and surrounding areas. Gal is a lawyer by training and has many years in the financial world. This couple is perfect together — want to make a go of it. Please advise two not too young people.

Answers and Views:

Answer by Helen Stewart
I am an urban girl who moved with her husband to his small hometown. It was a nightmare. I did not adjust well and we’re moving back to the city we lived in when we met. I do not advise it, but that was just my experience.

Answer by f100_supersabre
Learn to cook from scratch is a good start if you don’t already know how.
The rest depends on the town you are moving TOO; some are handy to bigger cities and some are not, (which means more thought for shopping trips.)

Answer by old man on the hill
moving from a big city to a small town be prepared to lose your anonymity. in small towns everyone knows everyone. you will no longer be just a face in the crowd

it is nice once you get used to it but it can feel like you have lost your privacy. i was raised in small towns but went to college and worked in the big city. benefits and advantages to both but i prefer small towns with room to breath and not all concrete

Answer by IndianaJohn
Be prepared to have half of the town in your business

also, from my experience, unless you are born and raised there, you will never fit in.

Answer by socal.gold
As long as the two of you have a regular hobby that you both enjoy & participate in, you’ll be okay. It’ll take some time to adjust to a small town atmosphere. Stock up on food cause you won’t be going out to eat as much. Learn to fish (if you don’t already know how), go hiking, camping, boating, & the like. You have to find things to do so you don’t go mad from boredom.

* note: I was born/raised in So. Cal; moved to a small “town” of approx. 98 people in Northern Oregon, Feb. of 2010.

Answer by Rowdy
Hang on,this ride is gonna get bumpy. First,be prepared for a blow by blow account of his younger years from everyone in town. You’ll get the good and the bad. Just tilt your head,smile and say “Goodness!” a lot and you’ll be fine. Second,small town people are more blunt than you’d imagine. They’ll ask questions about yourself that will knock you back. Tact will get you through here. Some questions you won’t mind answering,but others you’ll have to sidestep with a “Well,I’m not really at liberty to say right now. Maybe later.”

Any of his old flames still around and single? Watch out for this one. I had my MOTHER try and fix me up with an old g/f while my Wife was sitting right there. “Oh Honey,you two should go have lunch. My treat. You always were the sweetest looking couple back then. Shame it didn’t work out between you two. Did you know she’s single again?” Gee Mom,gonna spring for the hotel room too? My Wife just smiled,took me to lunch and then jumped my bones at home later on that day. That made me forget all about Ol’ Whats-Her-Name.

Since you’ll be the new couple in town,expect gossip and lots of it. In small towns gossip is an art form,here in the Carolina’s these old women can gossip to your face while stabbing you in the back at the same time. It’s something to see. Makes Southern politics look tame.

Learn to smile a lot and let 99% of what they say roll off your back,hold your ground on the other 1% and you’ll do just fine. Learn to fight the battles worth winning.

Good luck.