re: Have you ever felt unwelcome in a small town?

Vidor, Texas. I had to interact with several separate groups of locals there, briefly. All of them were memorably unfriendly for no reason. I had heard of Vidor being a bad spot before, so maybe that's why the memory sticks out.

Also some black friends of mine said they had a bad time in Bogalusa with locals, when they had to be there for work a few weeks. They got a lot of bad vibes.

No I others attitudes don’t effect me in any way. I do me regardless they can get fricked

From the early 90s: My grandparents were from a small town (less than 500 people in total) in Northeast Mississippi (Tishomingo). I grew up in the Nashville area. Once I went straight there from college for a holiday and got pulled over for my Tennessee plates when I turned off the main highway that went through town onto one of the side roads. I asked why I got pulled over, and was totally ignored. The cop was pretty suspicious and straight up asked me what I was doing in town and if I was planning on sticking around. Dude was resting his hand on his sidearm the whole time.

The town was so small they didn't have formal elections for some city roles. It was on a rotation for some of the older town members. My grandfather, who owned the auto parts store in town, was serving as mayor at the time. When I dropped his name to the cop, the guy changed his whole attitude in a hurry and I got a police escort to the house (which was like a 1/ 2 mile in total).

One of my buddies who lives in Denver basically spends all of his free time fly fishing in the mountains and duck hunting on the plains. A couple of years ago he was in some small Colorado mountain town in a bar after a day of fishing. Some of the locals beat the shite out of him. He woke up in his car in pull-off off the highway. He apparently was able to get into his vehicle and drive off, but he remembers none of it. Said that the last thing he remembered was getting jumped and getting knocked out. He claims he only had a couple of beers prior to that. They fricked him up good, broke some ribs. Went to he hospital after he woke up.

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St. Francisville

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Her local friends where complete assholes

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This checks out. Beautiful little town, though.

Been to many an Aussie pub where I was most welcome, but have also been to a few where "Yanks" were not most welcome. In a few towns, I'd get an "eat shite and die" look if someone overheard my accent.

I remember my grandmother (no pics) telling me about moving to Madisonville in 1946. She was from Oregon and had met my grandfather while he was stationed there for a time during the war. When he came back from overseas, she flew down here to marry him. The whole town gave her the cold shoulder because she was a yankee. Even my great-grandmother was not nice to her. She said it took years before she felt accepted in the town.

Stopped in this diner in Chitina, Alaska and had a bowl of chili. We told somebody about it later and their eyes got big. Apparently it was a notorious biker hangout. We were the only ones in the place at the time.

Some of those roadhouses in Alaska can be pretty rough but we always minded our business and never had trouble

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The rural areas are very wary of coastal elites moving into their towns. They’ve seen what’s happened to other areas out west that have been ruined by explosive growth and Californians

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Yep. It has more to do with your car plates and how you carry yourself. I'd be fine with South Dakota plates and I also fit in culturally with the locals in the Dakotas, Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska. California or some other out of region state, not really welcome

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when trying to go get drinks or food at a local bar and he mentioned that he pretty much got followed out of one town in Oregon by the cops to ensure he didn’t stay in town.

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I know that guy too