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I have to agree with HCL-- it really depends on where the small town is. There are some lovely small towns in the eastern panhandle of WV that have all the qualifications of the post, but there are also many other towns further inside the state that lack cultural and ethnic diversity. There are strong class distinctions also-- at least in the town where I lived during middle school.

I romanticize the notion of a small town myself, but the reality I've seen is that those small towns you're talking about are on the coasts, are nearby major metropolitan areas, or are college towns.

I'd say go with your gut. I personally think there can be bad vibes in certain places, but structures in themselves are not the things that emit them. Bringing love into a home helps also. And of course, not all houses that have had a death occur in them have those accursed "bad vibes."

I just remember being eight years old and sleeping in my parents' bedroom one night (they were away and my grandmother was staying with us), and I was awakened by some strange, inexplicable rolling sound. It sounded like something rolling back and forth, and I looked out the window and on the windowsill and saw nothing. I found out years later that a previous owner, an alcoholic, died in that room.

Does this make me sound crazy and irrational? Yes. Do I, as an older and "wiser" person, disbelieve this memory? No. I won't go all the way to say that my childhood home is haunted, but there was *something* funky about living there.