> It’s not necessarily the cozy small town upbringing we expected in olden days, there has been generational turnover. It was never that cosy idealistic and th

> It’s not necessarily the cozy small town upbringing we expected in olden days, there has been generational turnover. It was never that cosy idealistic and the more you read history of those places the more you see it. The vision of pure sainty village is ideological rather then historical. People who live in small towns are people. Some get aggressive, some are alcoholic or gamblers. Some are assholes in other ways. Or just lead long passive aggressive wars about stupid stuff. There are fights, enablement and abuse for similar reasons as in the cities. There is less anonymity which changes things, but the vision of sainty small town was never accurate.