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watwuttoday at 2:02 PM1 replyview on HN

City kids have friends, play outside and go visit friends. That is completely normal in most world cities. And yes, where public transport exists, city kids do use public transport to get to school, to visit friends or to go to the gym.

> I feel sorry when I see kids today depressed, lonely, and distrusts society.

The weird thing is, rural people show a lot of distrust and fear that city people seem to show less. Rural people just assume that city means danger and fear.

> depression was just not really a thing in a village.

This is simply not true. If you look at social issues like alcoholism, drug use, suicides or domestic violence ... villages have plenty of those. They have harder availability of psychologists and psychiatrists. That does not mean issues do not exist there, they measurably do.


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senttoschooltoday at 2:38 PM

  City kids have friends, play outside and go visit friends.
Yes, and city kids also eat, poop, and talk. :)

I think it's the degree that matters.

  This is simply not true. If you look at social issues like alcoholism, drug use, suicides or domestic violence ... villages have plenty of those.
Degree matters here too.
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