It is sometimes said that the countryside offers a high quality of life, especially for families. What are the arguments for and against families choosing to live and work in the countryside, for example as farmers? What is your own view about this?

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more important than where to settle as a family, and the question of an urban or rural location is complex. There are strong arguments for and against living in the

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, as we will discuss now. On the one hand, it might be said that the

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is rather a backwater, with fewer cultural amenities than a city in the form of museums, theatres and even sporting events.

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may mean that families become isolated, especially as rural depopulation leaves fewer country dwellers in the area, as we see,

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, in central France. Added to

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is the scarcity of schools and colleges, meaning that children may need to travel long distances for their education.

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, career options may be more limited in the

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for both parents and children, resulting in rural unemployment and long-term rural poverty in the worst cases.

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,

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in the

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has rewards which go beyond material considerations.

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, the abundance of natural resources

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as land,

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wildlife, forestry

and water bodies means that a comparatively simple

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can be lived at a subsistence level. Many country residents are self-sufficient smallholders in

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sense, safeguarding them from the changes in the wider economy which can afflict city dwellers. If the parents are farmers, children learn the importance of animal husbandry, methods of farming

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as crop rotation and irrigation, and generally may become more in tune with the natural world

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.

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, as technology enables children to undertake distance learning or remote viewing of cultural attractions

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as museums, they should be less isolated from their cultural heritage. Overall, it seems to me that

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in the

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today is indeed quite high, with its advantages of resources, self-sufficiency and environmental awareness.

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is especially true now that communications are reducing the risk of isolation in

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far-flung communities