You get a little further out in rural areas where raising them there might impact their future depending on how well you parent. A lot of odd people and drugs in the country. A lot of anti-socials creeps move to rural areas and their kids follow suit. I love the idea of living in the sticks but the schools are shitty compared to the suburbs and opioids are an epidemic in these towns. Obviously this can happen in nice suburbs too but statistics don’t lie.
Why stop there? Real rural is the way to go. If you can get like 2 hours away from the nearest Walmart, life is almost exactly the same as it was 25 years ago
You can get cell phone reception and Internet almost everywhere now. Some places will even have fiber and gigabit connections. I had DSL and a cell phone over 20 years ago in a very rural area
Plus basically every small town will have a grocery store and gas station, my grandpa owned the local supermarket. Everything else you can get on Amazon or the million other online stores
I know about rural life lol. You don't. You are talking about off-grid living. Like a cabin in the woods type shit. Most rural life revolves around small farming communities that include a small town that has the necessities, as well as phone reception and Internet access. There is also schools for the kids to learn in.
Have you ever read the book called Little House on the Prairie? Would you agree that is a rural area? Well I literally built a football field in that town, and they have Internet and phones, but are definitely still rural.
What makes you think that a majority of people that live in rural areas are horrid? A lot of these people are responsible for feeding the whole country
There is a reason a lot of the “locals” in small towns are super weird when you visit them. I went into a Dollar General earlier today while staying at a cabin for the weekend and most of the people looked like they were on meth.
That's true, but I went to a school with an average class size of 10 for most of my life. Then I transferred to a school in a city with 20k people for my junior and senior years and I ended up getting awards for having the best scores in calculus and physics. The teachers in small schools are able to get to know the students better, and they end up learning a lot more that way. A lot of my teachers were also my parents teachers.
I also easily made the varsity sports teams and went to national competitions for engineering. You can do a lot and learn a lot in a small town if you use your imagination. There's a lot less distractions there
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u/Astra-Fang Millennial Sep 11 '26
Borderline rural life is the SHIT.
10 minutes from anything, but close enough that all the kids can play. My street has 10 boys under 6 so it’s gonna be expensive in 10 years.m