[sewell94]

I grew up in a small town, and u would love to go back there, but small towns are dying because manufacturing jobs are leaving etc etc and there are not that many jobs comming back to them.. Now about the education being not up to standards, thats some BS. I went from a small town to a much larger town in Fl, and i can tell u that the education was 10 times better in the small town, i think most of it was due to the fact that the teachers actually taught instead of babysiting a bunch of foul-mouthed kids that were raised by a bunch of parents that don't give a ****. The schools where i'm from push college education like crazy, i would bet that 75% went to college or into a trade, yes most moved away, but almost everyone i've talked to misses it, it was nice walking across town and not worring about stuff, or not having to lock you doors on your house. Most i've talked to want to move back to raise their kids the same way. now i'm not talking about a town is 500 people, but in the 30k range, i have cousins that were raised in village of ~5k people and one is in college along with 75% of the kids in his class. I hate to sound racist but i think alot of it is due to the fact that u have have 10 different races being mixed together and only have of them speaking english. I would love to move back to my hometown but due to lack of jobs it won't happen , i think alot of that is from overseas manufacturing, i think thats also why alot of people are moving to the mid atlantic/tenn/ga/nc area, they can get there small town feel with jobs. Thats why i want to move to Nc.