re: Have you moved from a larger to city to a small town / countryside? How was it?

Would help to have a little perspective on what is big versus country.

You have NYC-Houston sized towns, Birmingham-New Orleans sized towns, Baton Rouge-Mobile size towns, Hammond size towns, and four corners towns, then also just plain unincorporated country. What are you going from and to?

NYC to Hammond LA would be a huge shock. NYC to Atlanta not so much, nor Hammond to unincorporated.

Of course as you go down the size scale, you lose public transport and service options, life gets slower, etc... I like the "try it out" idea first.

We went from downtown big city to unincorporated and love it, but man it is hard to find good vietnamese food.