It’s so much better living in country than in town. I have heaps of pluses here.
Right, number one plus for how I feel about living in the country compared to town. I get so much fresh air! I’m healthy and stronger than most kids because I have heaps of room to run around in and I get better meat and veggies. All of this helps me keep fit and healthy. Even though I don’t get to go to as many pony club events and other sports because we live so far away, I can ride and play at home. We live on 900 acres and (lots of people have more than that) with all that room no way would I be bored!
By the way there is not as much crime such as robberies and graffiti. Also there’s hardly any car crashes. So since we don’t have those things it makes the roads and even going outside a lot safer. For example my dad lets me and my sisters’ bike down the road to a friends place. There are no foot paths so how would we stay safe? This is because my dad knows that since we are so far away from town there would not be super fast cars coming around the corner to mash us. Also there is not very much graffiti (in fact there is hardly any!) because the people that do it can’t think of a reason to do it down here. It’s not going to be seen so what’s the point? That’s what I think of graffiti. We don’t have to lock our houses because we don’t have very many robberies. They don’t even know where we are! Also they probably think that we might have ham hanging from the roof and corn in the cupboards. No room for valuables. That’s all well for them but we do have some! But we still don’t get robbed which is very, very good!
Nobody around here gets to go to any more than 3 sports. That’s just because we live so far away! But there are heaps to choose from such as netball, rugby, soccer, hockey, basketball and so on. And because we are so strong and healthy we can play all of these! Also we meet new people and get to know them really well. I have heaps of friends just from playing netball! And even though we use lots of petrol and diesel, it’s worth it!
School. It might be boring but let me tell you it’s a lot better than town ones! You know everybody so well and it’s a bit like have heaps of brothers and sisters! (No, I don’t mean fighting over whose turn it is to do something!) And since there are as not as many people in your school you are not subject to betrayal and stuff like that which is pretty nasty! We also get more individual teaching time with our teacher because the groups are so little. That makes us a lot smarter!
One thing our parents/farmers must like about the farms is how much cheaper everything is than from town. We get cheaper meat because we kill our own stock and get the fresh meat instead of the stuff that you get from the supermarket which is probably full of chemicals. It’s the same with fruit and veggies. They probably also get a nice profit from their farm as well. Well they must do because none of us are starving and in rags! But since the meat and wool prices are going up and down all the time I suppose you don’t get as much money as town people do. I think it depends on what sort of job you have. So if you have a huge car manufactures you would probably get more money than if you had 20 acres and were farming a few sheep and beef cattle! But if you have a 1000 acre farm you would get more money than if you were working at a dairy! So really it does depend on what kind of job you have.
I think we should thank our parents for moving to the country because of what I have said about school, sport, farming and how much crime that doesn’t happen (!) and that all these things help us have a better lifestyle!
