Yep, people always talked about how the small town was "a great place for raising kids", except that is was so unimaginably boring that teenagers really had not

Yep, people always talked about how the small town was "a great place for raising kids", except that is was so unimaginably boring that teenagers really had nothing much to do but a bunch of drugs and sex. The outer suburbs are pretty much the same: the supposed bucolic safety of the cul-de-sac becomes a deathtrap if you move onto the arterial roads. I've seen plenty of fourteen-year-olds riding dirt bikes without lights on high-speed roads feeding onto the interstate, because how else are they supposed to get anywhere interesting?