Small town frustration

I've mostly adjusted to living in a small town, but there are a few things that frutstrate me now and again, normally that's when I'm looking for something specific.

Right now, I'm looking for a map. You'd think it wouldn't be difficult to find a road map for a major city that's not too far away. Yeah, you'd be wrong. I'm driving to Ottawa on Friday and since I have a tendency to get lost I figured I should get a map of Ottawa, this is proving difficult. I asked my colleauges where I'd be able to find one. The answer, Belleville. Why on earth should I have to drive to Belleville, to the CAA office, for a map of our nations capital, which is three hours away? It's a road map! do people here travel so little that they don't carry maps anywhere in Prince Edward County? There should be a sign that when you enter PEC it says "we don't carry any maps for other cities, sorry."

The tourist office only had a tourist map, which would get me far more lost than I could get on my own, because they are often not to scale and have a tendency to omit streets.
So I asked my colleagues if the bookstore would carry maps -- they didn't seem to confident. Not that I'm surprised, this is the bookstore that doesn't carry Rolling Stone or Spin, and seems to not carry all that many books either.

This is a place that claims to want to be able to do everything itself, and not have to send people to Belleville or Trenton for things. I can think of many things you can't buy here. Magazines, this mythical bookstore carries a few intelligent magazines but it has crappy hours but seems to be stocked largely with fishing and crafting magazines - great. CDs, this bookstore is also the CD store, it has a very limited stock and is incredibly over priced, there is a used CD store as well, but I think I have more CDs than it does. Ethnic food - there is a severe lack of ethnic food that is prepared or available to be prepared, if you want burgers, grease or ice cream you're ok, ethnic food, you're not. Shoes, seriously I've never seen so many ugly shoes since I moved here. Clothes, read shoes. Office supplies, I'm out of printer paper and am thinking about stealing some from the office so I have some at home because they don't sell it here. Maps, see above.

I think you get the idea. I realize these are all luxuries and not the necessities of every day life, but these are things I've grown accustomed to while living in the city, which apparently spoiled me to a life of easy-access everything.

One final point, even if these things were available here they defintely wouldn't be open after 5 p.m., or maybe 6 p.m., which is an added challenge, it's hard to accomplish much when everything closes between 5 and 6 and that's when I get back from work, yet some there are strange things open at 8:30 a.m. like the bikini store. Why would I buy a bathing suit at 8:30 in the morning? This town is seriously warped on the retail front.