Landmark serves largely as a dormitory community or exurb for people who work in Winnipeg but prefer to reside in a small-town environment.

The theme of the play was youth unrest set in a small-town environment.

"They like our small-town environment."

Ringwood was incorporated as a village on 15 November 1994 in an attempt to maintain its small-town environment.

Thus, Véa's small-town environment was multicultural and multilingual and provided him a strong sense of mestizo identity that informs his writing.

"People came expecting a small-town environment and instead have been thrust into a new community that is not really city or rural," he says.

Others embraced the Mayor's vision, while others criticized the project as too grandiose for the city's small-town environment.

Also supporting the idea, he continued, are data showing that "when times get tough, people like the security and safeness of the small-town environment."

In both city and country, he has found a small-town environment, an American approximation of Bacchus Marsh.

At the beginning of his work stand humoristic sketches mostly from small-town environment with caricatured human figures especially from middle-class, often Jewish society.