small-town

[ smawl-toun ]

/ ˈsmɔlˈtaʊn /

of, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village: a typical, small-town general store.

provincial or unsophisticated: small-town manners.

Origin of small-town

First recorded in 1880–85

small-town·er, noun

It is certainly more stylish than a council flat in a small-town banlieue!

Hell Hath No Fury Like Valerie Trierweiler, the French President’s Ex |Lizzie Crocker |November 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
A small-town Ohio elementary school teacher just racked up 25 charges on an otherwise clean record for allegedly raping her son.

Ohio Elementary School Teacher Charged With Raping Her Son |Nina Strochlic |November 11, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Instead, Ernst is seen as a “likable, relatable person” who is cut “from the cloth of small-town Iowa.”

The Bruce Braley-Joni Ernst Race Is Iowa’s Ugliest Senate Campaign Ever |Ben Jacobs |July 22, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And the first two episodes were directed by Peter Berg of Friday Night Lights, who is a master of small-town pathos.

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But from the quiet solitude of small-town New England, Dr. Anderson would offer a soothing late-night phone call or Skype session.

My Therapist Dumped Me |Lizzie Crocker |April 4, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Suppose, then, on top of all the drawbacks of small-town life, the girls had to work under big-city factory conditions?

Working With the Working Woman |Cornelia Stratton Parker
Another of her relatives, a niece, had married a small-town sharper.

On the Stairs |Henry B. Fuller
Her taste in dress was soubrettish and flagrant, but it was not small-town.

We Can't Have Everything |Rupert Hughes
In their quiet, small-town lives the love-letters of Henrietta's William Vane had been important events.

In Pawn |Ellis Parker Butler
He had listened to the call of the city, but he was still a small-town man.

The Gay Cockade |Temple Bailey