by Jason Pike St Lawrence, NL. The “Small-Town Mentality” and why it needs to change. For years I’ve heard people talk about the so-called negative small-town mentality. The idea that people become complacent, convinced that things cannot change because “this is the way it’s always been.” Recently, I began to understand its something deeper. Often, the belief that something can’t happen isn’t reality at all. It’s a situation created and