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Ray Palmer wrote: »Can't be way off the mark I am TELLING you what happened with 4 families I know. How many teenager do you know go to scouts and youth clubs? When your child becomes a teenager come back and tell us how it worked out.
I'd have to agree. I grew up in a rural area just outside a small town, and while country living is FANTASTIC for small kids who can entertain themselves for hours with their imagination, it's very different when they get too old to just 'go out and play'. I found myself very, very bored as a teenager, I lived about 15 miles away from where I was going to secondary school so I couldn't just knock around to someone's house. There was nothing available for me in the local town. My parents had to ferry me everywhere, which they couldn't always do due to other commitments, so I was quite isolated and spent many weekends doing absolutely nothing, and ending up arguing with my mother about doing housework. (My argument being that doing your bit around the house is fine, but when your entire weekend consists of hoovering, and cleaning the bathroom and washing dishes just because your mother sees you're at a loose end and you're stuck in the house, it becomes a bone of contention). No internet or sky tv either, two-channel land all the way!!
My point being...kids aren't small forever. Think forward - is there potential for them to make friends locally (within walking distance), is/will there be any place for them to go, anything for them to do? Just make sure that for the sake of a nice big house you don't end up with a houseful of bored teenagers who you have to drive everywhere and who complain that 'there's nothing to doooooo!' every day
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I'd have to agree. I grew up in a rural area just outside a small town, and while country living is FANTASTIC for small kids who can entertain themselves for hours with their imagination, it's very different when they get too old to just 'go out and play'. I found myself very, very bored as a teenager, I lived about 15 miles away from where I was going to secondary school so I couldn't just knock around to someone's house. There was nothing available for me in the local town. My parents had to ferry me everywhere, which they couldn't always do due to other commitments, so I was quite isolated and spent many weekends doing absolutely nothing, and ending up arguing with my mother about doing housework. (My argument being that doing your bit around the house is fine, but when your entire weekend consists of hoovering, and cleaning the bathroom and washing dishes just because your mother sees you're at a loose end and you're stuck in the house, it becomes a bone of contention). No internet or sky tv either, two-channel land all the way!!
My point being...kids aren't small forever. Think forward - is there potential for them to make friends locally (within walking distance), is/will there be any place for them to go, anything for them to do? Just make sure that for the sake of a nice big house you don't end up with a houseful of bored teenagers who you have to drive everywhere and who complain that 'there's nothing to doooooo!' every day
In fairness, millions of kids have grew up in the countryside and entertained themselfs hurling, playing football or in front of the same amount of channels you get everywhere nowadays or in the entertainment room you could provide for them with the extra space.
You could also look at it the other way, that the teenager grows up in the town and hangs round with the wrong crowd and gets up to no good. I am not getting into the cutie/townie debate, but they both have their advantages and drawbacks0 -
In fairness, millions of kids have grew up in the countryside and entertained themselfs hurling, playing football or in front of the same amount of channels you get everywhere nowadays or in the entertainment room you could provide for them with the extra space.
You could also look at it the other way, that the teenager grows up in the town and hangs round with the wrong crowd and gets up to no good. I am not getting into the cutie/townie debate, but they both have their advantages and drawbacks
Yep, you're absolutely right, no arguments from me there. I was just giving an opinion as to what is was like for me, and I also did know of families who moved into/closer to towns so their children could have playmates etc. (although we are talking pre-internet/mobile phone/sky tv era here). It's just something to consider. I'm not saying to live smack bang in the middle of a big housing estate either, that brings its own problems too, but easy access for kids or teenagers to their friends, school, and/or entertainment would certainly be something I would consider in buying a family home, having grown up quite isolated myself.
Oh I remember the auld culchie/townie debates meself - funny thing was, the girls from the nearby town who (jokingly) called us culchies were just as much culchies as I was when it came to going to college
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You would think that growing up in the country that teenagers grow up in some kind of isolated box from reading this thread
Im sure everyone here knows people who grew up in the country and loved it and some who hated it. And the same goes for growing up in the city.0 -
Mustard1972 wrote: »You would think that growing up in the country that teenagers grow up in some kind of isolated box from reading this thread
Im sure everyone here knows people who grew up in the country and loved it and some who hated it. And the same goes for growing up in the city.
Ah it had it's good points too and of course, I'm going back 20-25 years here when Ireland was a different place. I'm just saying what it was like for me PERSONALLY. I remember many Saturday afternoons when there was nothing on the telly except Sports Stadium, nowhere to go, nobody to see, and then the mother saying to me "well if you've nothing to do, you can go and wash the floor/clean the toilet/hoover the whole house' etc. Just what every teenage girl (who can't get away from it) wants to hear
Anyway, that's my 2c, let's not pull the thread too much OT.
I'd recommend Wicklow btw 0 -
Yep, you're absolutely right, no arguments from me there. I was just giving an opinion as to what is was like for me, and I also did know of families who moved into/closer to towns so their children could have playmates etc. (although we are talking pre-internet/mobile phone/sky tv era here). It's just something to consider. I'm not saying to live smack bang in the middle of a big housing estate either, that brings its own problems too, but easy access for kids or teenagers to their friends, school, and/or entertainment would certainly be something I would consider in buying a family home, having grown up quite isolated myself.
Oh I remember the auld culchie/townie debates meself - funny thing was, the girls from the nearby town who (jokingly) called us culchies were just as much culchies as I was when it came to going to college
Ha, good point. I grew up in town myself btw and had the 6 channels, we were the envy of many people who only had RTE. Thank god those days are behind us. We have no kids yet but I'm sure the dreaded teenager years are ahead of us, but I defiantly don't want to live in the middle of nowhere either0 -
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