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Living in a village has massive up and downsides.

The downsides are, that you are always dependant on a car to go anywhere. Public transit is usually non existent or unusable (at least if you value your time). Theres usually also not that much to do on the weekends. No going in a club because a band you like plays there. If you want to be able you have to drive their or have someone to drive you if you dont want to stay sober. The citizens of rural areas are usually more on the conservative side, so better not ask them about their views on immigrants. However it always depends on the region how bad it really is.

The upsides are, that you know people. You regularly see people, if you need help with something you can simply ask your neighbours, friends etc. Also since its a bit more common for people in rural areas to do manual labour this means, that you will know quite a lot of people that actually know how to do stuff. One massive upside is, that villages tend to be a bit more relaxed and more quiet in general. So this means, that after like 7pm its quite unusual to hear any or that much noise. However if someone is louder (e.g. they're having a party) dont be a bitch and let them have fun. In return you can have fun too and dont get problems. However this highly depends on where you live. Especially older people sometimes tend to be quite bitchy and call the cops at you for being to loud. But again, it depends. If you decide to actually invest your time, es example by joining one or more clubs, you too get the chance to become part of the village. This is usually one of the few possible ways of actually integrating into a village and if you dont do this, you will be quite lonely.

And then theres stuff that's an upside and a downside at the same time. Mainly it is, that when you know what everyone else has been up to everyone else knows what you have been up to. So better keep an eye on what you tell, because you can be sure that it will spread quite quickly and people love to make up weird shit, that doesn't even have to be based on some form of reality. Trust me, this comes from someone who has heard the most bullshit imaginable told about my family.

So in short, its a quite fun thing but its not something for everyone. Especially the bad infrastructure is something that makes living in a village unattractive (this includes me, which is why I Am quite happy to live in a small town where I have quite a lot of aspects of the usual village live, but with more progressive people and actually functioning public transport).

I lived on an island with 20~25 people lighting there throughout 5 years. It was fucking great! I miss those years.