Your perspective of “big” changes when you live in a small town. Example: Cocolalla, population, 768 (Small). Grangeville, population 3110 (BIG!). We recently went to visit Grangeville where you can get pizza delivered – amazing how we miss that. Another observation was how many wireless access points there are.
Our home in Cocolalla: ONE 
Hotel room in Grangeville: Dozens! Many of which were ready to be shared with anyone (some things you should never share). It was like a metropolis of wireless access points.
In the Chicago burbs, the numbers are in the hundred in any given point on the map.