I grew up in mining towns in Arizona and Montana. My experience was that they’re pretty great places for young adults who want workshops or to be Brad Pitt in A

I grew up in mining towns in Arizona and Montana. My experience was that they’re pretty great places for young adults who want workshops or to be Brad Pitt in A River Runs Through It; not such a great place to be a nerdling surrounded by children of miners and farmhands who will kick your ass into the next county for a laugh. YMMV; maybe having the Internet would have helped the experience of isolation? but I would urge parents to give rural school systems the same scrutiny that they do schools in the big scary city.