Relevant Differences between Urban and Rural from the Perspective of Young People's Lifestyle

The central theme of this study is how young people and young adults experience obstacles and opportunities in relation to their past, present and potential future in a rural area. There are certainly differences in the lifestyle of young people in rural and urban areas, observable for most of them. In this article we will focus on the following perspectives: living conditions, access to transportation, access to digitalization, to health and social services. Although social services seem to be a particularly relevant issue for the social groups of older people, it also targets the impact on children. Moving is an important element of difficulty in rural areas, involving relevant aspects of life. Although the desire to repopulate the mountainous rural environment is very high, there are aspects that the elderly have not thought about and on which the success of choosing the rural area really depends. Young people are less and less concerned with the management of farms, most of the actions that are chosen by them and successfully completed are those aimed at choosing a healthy lifestyle, like eating healthy food and being away from urban stress. In other words, the lifestyle that young people have in mind when moving to rural mountains is completely different from what older people expect.