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Can be either, depending on the particular small community...greatly depends on whether there's still a local establishment at all or not. There, being in the Ozarks region I'd venture with the tourist traffic it didn't much effect the local trade other than give the kids a new and different hangout altho I'm sure there are regular coffee groups meeting there as well as the corner where they always did before... :)
We're a much larger local population in a more sparsely, overall, populated region. He's got "only" 100 mi to Little Rock, +/-, we've got
200 to either Amarillo or Wichita.They're about 20 people/sq mi for the county, we're about 30(+) but the county but one to the NW is 1.5 (1500 total/900 sq mi). And that's still pretty dense compared to areas on over in E Co and then on out farther west.
(+) But, of course, 22000 of the 23000 total are in one town so our rural population density is also only slightly over the 1.5 mark; just that the other county also counts their county seat in that average :)