Many people do not take into account the quality of relationships, types of opportunities and the styles of recreation when it comes to living on a farm to living in a city.
The quality of relationships are very diverse between rural living and urban style living. When people stop and think about living on a farm, they think about wide open fields with a barn filled with cows and chickens. As opposed to when they think about a big city, bright lights and bumper to bumper traffic with the air filled with smog, and the various amounts of people walking the sidewalk are the type of things that may come to mind. If one lives on a farm, usually the individual has a closer bond with the family primarily because they all live under the same roof. Being that their friends or relatives do not live near, they have a lot more interactions with the family thus making them closer and tighter knit. The neighbors, who may live five to ten miles down the road, may have a lot more communications with rural families. By the same token, a person that lives with in a city might not have relatives living under the same roof. That also means fewer relations with their neighbors. People who live in the city may have outings with the family once or twice a week to a local restaurant or another similar family oriented activity.
For some people a basic education may be fine, but there is always those that are seeking to expand their education to a higher level such as college or a trade school. Living on a farm, most people would probably receive a basic schooling. Since their primary focus will most likely be to work and take care of their farm, there is not a big desire or need to further their schooling. They would have to travel further distances to have a better education if there were an interest. City life, however, focuses more on corporate America requiring a higher level of education such as a degree or a...