re: Have you moved from a larger to city to a small town / countryside? How was it?

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for whatever reason people feel the need to always "defend" the small town/country lifestyle from legit criticism.

i'd ultimately like to end up where i grew up, but i know that it is not some sort of land of enchantment with none of the issues that come with a more urban lifestyle like so many lifelong city/suburb people seem to think.

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Yep.

Neighbors are super critical in rural areas. For one, there are simply less targets, so you are more likely to get targeted if you live near criminals.

You can have the nicest 100 acre plot, but if a shitty meth trailer park is next to it, you are probably going to have issues.

We had all kinds of issues with some "neighbors" (they lived like 2 miles away) growing up, everything from theft, peeping toms, and ultimately one murdered his girlfriend and dumped her body on our property.