Erm, 100K is not small town America.
I grew up outside of a town with 5K people; it was the largest town in a 50-mile radius.
Small towns have under 1K people, at least where I come from.
I grew up outside of a town with 5K people; it was the largest town in a 50-mile radius.
Small towns have under 1K people, at least where I come from.
The town I grew up in had a population of ~35k, and it was definitely a 'small town'.
These things are all relative to your local norms, but I think demanding that 'small towns' have at most four people and a lame horse is excessive.
Personally, I'd but the line between "town" and "city" to having some kind of rapid rail transit. (That'd mean, for example, that in the country where I live is just one city.)
My point was that the size of a 'small town' varies by context, and that a town of 1,000 would be tiny even in the context of a place that doesn't have many people.
Also, 'city' in the UK is to do with a special government/crown-granted status, not really the population per se.