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Young people are often fed up with the boredom of their surrounding. For them everything there is too peaceful and calm. They hate it that everyone knows them and gossips about all they do. If they do not behave like others they may feel not accepted by the small community. They want to spend their life in a different way, finish school, find an interesting and well-paid job and most of all leave for a big city. For them living in a city is exciting and interesting, as there are so many things they can do there. They can make many more friends and spend evenings as they wish at the very moment. Young people feel more independent and free in a city where even neighbours living in the same block of flats do not know one another and the only place they sometimes meet is a lift. Many people like this anonymity especially when compared to the feeling of being spied upon one can get in a small town.