From what I've learned, the rural lifestyle can really fuck people up. It's fine for some, but for others, they get ruined in ways they never should have.
Take Johnny Cash for example. His brother got killed in an accident at a workshop. Never mind if Johnny was away fishing, someone else could've filled in for him and prevented his death. The father shitted on himself by turning to drugs for no good reason, (the family was going through hard times, but that was no excuse to hit the bottle), and his mom was a pill popper. No wonder Johnny wanted to leave the countryside and become a singer in an urban landscape. Then came his drug problem, owing to having to make distance from his family as much as it did his heavy traveling schedule and marital issues.
Johnny got over his substance abuse, but he could've avoided it in the first place, or at least experienced it for different reasons than country life costing the life of his brother and fucking up his parents.
There are other examples. This is but one.
Take Johnny Cash for example. His brother got killed in an accident at a workshop. Never mind if Johnny was away fishing, someone else could've filled in for him and prevented his death. The father shitted on himself by turning to drugs for no good reason, (the family was going through hard times, but that was no excuse to hit the bottle), and his mom was a pill popper. No wonder Johnny wanted to leave the countryside and become a singer in an urban landscape. Then came his drug problem, owing to having to make distance from his family as much as it did his heavy traveling schedule and marital issues.
Johnny got over his substance abuse, but he could've avoided it in the first place, or at least experienced it for different reasons than country life costing the life of his brother and fucking up his parents.
There are other examples. This is but one.