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Originally Posted by esquire
I'm keeping an eye on you now
I would liken it a bit to being from a small town and being one of a few in your class to move to the big city and attend university, travel the world, etc. After that kind of experience it's tough to really connect the same way with the people back home who went right to work and never left, even if some of those people who stayed went on to become very successful in their own right. Maybe people in the military or police forces feel the same about others who've never served that way.
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I'm from 10 miles outside of a small town. I moved away and went to university and currently in the mob (AKA the CAF).
I was back in the old stomping grounds last summer and I can still connect with the folks I grew up with. But I've also made a lot of connections here in Ottawa with people who are not from a small town and not military. Maybe they just find me a curious anachronism?
And I wasn't one of the "few who left", I think about 75% of my class of 65 students are no longer in the area.