Smallville Population

[showfan]

I don't suppose I have a question, just an observation. I noticed on the first episode that Smallville's population was 25,000 during the meteor shower, then 12 years later it is 45,000. That is a big population increase in 12 years for a town that size. Now I know for those of you who live in a city, 45,000 is nothing. But it's not exactly a one horse town where everybody knows everybody either, but that's how they play it out. I am familiar with various size towns, and it just doesn't fit what I know. Smallville's main street looks like a town I know with about 1800 population. Towns I know with 45,000 have Wal-Marts, Shopping Malls, 100s of restaurants, and certainly more than one high school. Smallville looks like Mayberry. I'm not poking fun because I love the show, but this just puzzled me. Does anyone else have any comments.

[tv star collector]

I haven't really paid attention to the population stats. But since you mentioned
it, yes, that figure does seem more than a little bit off. In fact, with all the
freakish things that have happened there, I would think the population of
Smallville would be decreasing, not increasing. After the meteor shower, I would
think that a lot of people would want to move somewhere else (if they could).

[barb1686]

Would it have anything to do with the new jobs that were available at Lexacorp when it opened in Smallville? I think that would be a big part of it...but I guess that would still be a lot of people, but they're suppose to be one of the largest and advanced companies in the world...and then you have people who quit/get fired and stay in the area afterwards...so yeah. I think that could be the reasoning behind it. They came to the area the same time of the meteor shower, correct?

[showfan]

Originally Posted by barb1686

Would it have anything to do with the new jobs that were available at Lexacorp when it opened in Smallville? I think that would be a big part of it...but I guess that would still be a lot of people, but they're suppose to be one of the largest and advanced companies in the world...and then you have people who quit/get fired and stay in the area afterwards...so yeah. I think that could be the reasoning behind it. They came to the area the same time of the meteor shower, correct?

That's a good point, but I know a town that has 6 major factories, a Super Wal-Mart, Lowes, K-Mart, 50+ restaurants, etc. and its population is only 13,000. Perhaps I've missed something, but they play Smalville out to be a one horse Mayberry town, but 45,000 people is not that. I can assure you the streets of Smallville would have a lot of traffic with that many people. Instead, they show it as very quiet and laid back(except for the weird events of course).