Do we still wish we were?

I don't know, to be a population of one

and a population of two, and you're both in the same county,

in the same state.

I think that's pretty wonderful.

- [Man] What is the population of Monowi?

- Population one,

me.

- The population of Gross, Nebraska is one, two.

One, two.

- [Elsie] We don't have enough people.

It's nothing against the towns, nothing against the

people running the businesses.

We simply have run out of people out in this area.

- [Mary] All we have in town is the bank vault

that remains from the Gross State Bank.

Then we have a community Hall.

And then our house and the trailer house across the street.

- We had a high school here.

There was church until, oh, maybe the mid '60s.

- We have the same paperwork and everything to fill out

that Omaha and New York City and every other city has.

We don't have an election for mayor,

I just let him keep that job.

(laughing)

- [Elsie] The young folks or any

that go from here to the city,

they can adjust pretty well and make a good life there,

but you take somebody that's born and raised in the city

and they usually just can't hack it out in this area.

- [Mary] Never gets lonely living in a town of two.

There's always somebody passing through.

Values are different.

You don't have everything at your fingertips,

so you just learn to sit and converse more.

- I'm not here because I have to be.

I could close up and leave here any time I wanted,

go wherever I wanted.

I'm here because I want to be here.