Building land in the middle of nowhere with the house prices?!

With the same argument, one could send their children to a hut in Africa. They would also be happy there because they don't know any better...

If we exclude obvious deficiencies such as the supply of food or medicine, then I really believe that. I consider the assumption that peoples who live closer to nature than we Westerners in our consumer huts are fundamentally less happy than we are to be naive.

Ever thought that sufficient food and medical supply might have something to do with our western lifestyle in our consumer huts? Humans do not develop further if they sit in their hut, look into the air, and think "Oh, actually quite nice here, I'll leave everything as it is..."

Whatever. Surely you can send your children to the village in the middle of nowhere and convince yourself that they are probably totally happy to have to leave the party at 10:45 p.m. because the next bus is only at 6:38 a.m. and that's too late. And the 50-minute bus ride to the only high school within 35km can be quite fun, I admit that.

I do see one more advantage indeed. The children are out of the house by 18 or 19 because the question of whether to stay home for university doesn't even arise, like in many big cities.

But I think the topic is discussed here. As long as both parents have to sit in a car for 100km and 3 hours per day each just to get to work, moving to the countryside is the worst idea anyone has ever had.

I can still quite well remember the constant discussion with my buddies from the small town "Are we leaving now, so at 0:04? If not, we have to take the train at 4:04..." In the end, they usually climbed into a taxi at 2:30, I could take the tram. Whoever can afford it.

Maybe nowadays you also get stabbed or harassed on the tram at 2:30 a.m. Then as a child / teenager you better have taken one of the self-defense courses. honestly. How long is the club phase anyway? Then you just go home at 5 in the morning. Or as a teenager, you get the money that the parents saved when buying the house handed to you. Or you have an agreement with the other parents about who will do the driving once. Here it is acted as if it overburdens everyone to get in the car sometimes. Moving out for university makes the kids independent anyway. They don’t have to stay. But actually, I do see this quite often here in rural areas. There people just set up a granny flat in the basement or upper floor. In the equivalent city apartment it gets very tight and since you want your freedom, the ‘kids’ just move out.

Certainly, one can send their children off to the village in the middle of nowhere and convince themselves that they must be totally happy about having to leave the party at 10:45 PM because the next bus only leaves at 6:38 AM and that's too late. And the 50-minute bus ride to the only high school within a 35 km radius can be quite fun, I admit.

With your arguments, one can only shake their head. Take a look at where the trend is going and where people are moving to, and not retirees, but families – exactly, out of the city, into the countryside. By the way, no bus running at night can also happen to you 15 km away from the next city, and there are even people who survive that without depression or unhappiness.

But I think the topic is settled here. As long as both parents each have to sit in the car for 100 km and 3 hours daily just to get to work alone, moving to the countryside is the worst idea anyone has ever had.

Why do you always generalize from your own situation to others? Why do you constantly claim absoluteness? When the topic is settled for him is decided by the OP and not you.

By the way, the fact that no bus runs at night can happen to you even 15km away from the next city, and there are even people who survive that without depression or unhappiness.

This can even happen to you in the city. When I still lived in the city, I took a taxi home half the time when partying, or we had a driver for the evening. Our "night owl" bus also did not run at just any time or to every remote corner of the city. If you live near the city outskirts, in some places the connectivity is not much better than in the countryside. I also don’t know where it takes 50 minutes to get to the nearest grammar school. Is there such a thing? I grew up in the middle of nowhere, less than 1000 inhabitants, and even we had a grammar school reachable by bus in under 30 minutes. Gym was 20 minutes by bus, and a comprehensive school could be reached in 10-15 minutes. Besides, the bus rides were sometimes the best part of the whole school day. There were ChupaChups and we traded Command & Conquer on diskette against other games, and played Quartet. But that's how it is. For some, the glass is half full, for some half empty. And for others completely empty, it seems.

I even know villages where children have to go to boarding school if they want to attend high school because there are no buses running and not all parents can or want to drive the long distances daily. I specifically know this from a village in [MV], it also affects the surrounding villages there. At least, that's what the villagers told me.