1. The kids you started with in kindergarten are the kids you'll basically know for the rest of your life.
2. And at school you were held to the standard of your older siblings before you. Or your parents.
3. The journey to get to school was generally a long one.
4. There were times during recess or lunch that you'd be subjected to locust attacks.
5. And there'd be too many times at night that you'd spot a little visitor on your bedroom wall.
6. If you weren't a fan of animals, you'd have to at least pretend to try to like them.
7. Every spring you were on a mission to survive the dreaded magpie season.
8. Going outside in summer for a minimal amount of time would still result in sunburn.
9. You were constantly jealous of coastal towns, because your nearest beach was hours away.
10. Alternatively, your town tried to call your local river "a beach".
11. And you'd never know what natural disaster each summer would bring.
12. There was a huge lack of fun ~recreational~ activities.
13. And if you ever wanted to go see your favourite band perform, you'd have to travel about five or six hours to get there.
14. The clothes shopping situation was not ideal.
15. If you didn't have your license and wanted to travel to a city, you'd have to endure a horrendous bus trip.
16. Though unless you had a friend to drive you around, you had no choice but to get your license as soon as possible.
17. And once everyone got their P's, the only "fun" thing to do was mainies.
18. Getting your first mobile was awesome until you realised your house was in a "black spot".
19. You'd quickly learn as you got older that no secret is ever really safe.
20. Going on an excursion to a city was always completely overwhelming.
21. Because the amount of people in one touristy area was basically the equivalent of your whole town.
22. And too often whenever you left your hometown, you'd always manage to run into someone you know from the area.
23. But there's always something strangely comforting about that, because there's no place like home.
