Think about if you have kids though.....the small town places just breed chavs.
Moved to a small town just before my sons commenced school all at university now and definately NOT CHAVS. In my experience parenting has a greater influence on a childs development than the environment and the chavs i know tend to be the product of families where the parents needs take priority over the childs needs.
I agree with reg as far as there's a greater risk though. Once your kids start school you have to accept that, to an extent, your parenting influence is going to be muddied by the outside world. Small town = less range of different groups of friends to hang out with. Or something.
And anyway, if you're kids are at uni now they probably missed the new-wave of mega chavness the kids have peaked at over the last few years. Yeah you get your hard-core always there chavs, but it's really blossomed into a youth lifestyle now, but they really need to started on the chav road by 12.
Small Town and not chavs? They aren't Emo kids or Goths are they? Not sure what'd would be worse
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Fuck knows what I'm on about, some fine line between a joke post and seriousness possibly. I've confused myself a little bit.
I disagree fB, even if in a small town you're going to get groups of the nerdy kids, the chav kids, the skater emo kids etc. It's not as if you have to go to a metropolis to find them.
You might be right about the limitations when it comes to rarer interests. But then would you want to encourage kids to hang about with Goth, D&D Playing, Jazz Musicians? Probably not.
I suppose that in a small town you might be more limited to the people you directly know around you, which I'll admit could lead to a more likely pulling in towards a certain crowd. But then that's more likely to set the seed when you're a bit younger, when parents still have more control over who their kids hang about with.
And to be fair, there's not that much more to chaviness than the classic teenage lifestyle anyway. Yeah you might talk bollocks, you're fashion sense might be a bit crap and you're taste in music will suck more balls than gay billiards player; but socially it's still going to be about going down the park, getting pissed on cider and seeing how far you can get with that drunk bird you like.
Just make sure the kids know about contraception, which should be a requirement anyway.
