Small Town Restaurants

When you live in a city like Topeka, you have an unbelievable amount of options to eat at. You can just drive down Wannamaker and find pretty much any chain restaurant you want to eat at. If you keep navigating throughout Topeka, you can find so many local restaurants to choose from as well. In a small town, it is not like that at all. The town I'm from didn't even have a restaurant. We had a gas station and a historic sandwich shop (Which I must say makes the best sandwiches ever!).  If we wanted food, we had to drive a town over. Even then our options were very slim. The only food places in all of the surrounding towns are Pizza Hut, McDonalds, Sonic and Subway. If you want anything else you have to drive to a city. (Which is a good 20-25 minute drive). If you wanted to get groceries at Walmart, or go shopping at a mall, you had to make a day of it. Luckily where I am from, Joplin isn't that far away, but for other towns sometimes it can be up to a 45 minute drive. Trying to put that into perspective can be hard for people from big cities. Just imagine every time you wanted to go out to eat or go shopping, you have to drive to Lawrence or Manhattan. When that's all you know it's not as big of a deal. I mean yeah, it's kind of inconvenient but not that bad. Because of the lack of restaurants, none of our surrounding schools allowed high school students to leave school for lunch. We could order from Pizza Hut and have them deliver, but that's about it. Moving to a city really showed me the luxury of having so many restaurant options so close to where I live. That is definitely something I like better about city life than living in a small town.