Your hometown looks small until you leave. Then it looks like where you were made.

Size is the wrong axis to judge an origin on. From inside, the only measure available is how much there is to do, and the answer is always less than somewhere else. From outside, a different question appears: this is where your accent came from, your sense of humour, what you think normal looks like. Those are not small, whatever the population was.

Write down three habits or opinions you have that came from where you grew up, without judging them. You will find some you want to keep and some you do not. Knowing which is which is most of what leaving is for.