What Comes To Mind...

[Abigail]

What do you think of when you read....

"generational town"

[joanjunkmail]

nothing, sorry.  it doesn't make sense to me.

[Abigail]

okay, maybe a little more info is needed...

"Although still considered newcomers to the generational town,"

[Abigail]

Yes, the time span between parents and children.

This is a small town where the same families have lived for generations.

[joanjunkmail]

perhaps a different adjective is needed

[Jessica V.]

okay, maybe a little more info is needed...

"Although still considered newcomers to the generational town,"

First thing that came to my mind was a town where there are lots of generations. The same families have lived there year after year, and now grandparents live alongside babies. Everyone knows each other's kids, kind of thing. (If that makes any sense?)

[gypsygurl]

The tomato thing would be germination.  I got it.  Generational town, as in even if you're family's lived there 20 years you're still outsiders because the other families have lived there for hundreds of years...for generations.

[Abigail]

Jessica and GG... you guys get it!  That's exactly what I'm talking about.

[coll]

A senior community.

Coll

[DaveKuzminski]

My first impression of "generational town" was that it was similar to a gulag or a means to segregate different generations to avoid "thought contamination" from other generations and might be used in describing a dictatorship in a futuristic society.