But Bendigo is a country town. That is an actual fact, not an opinion.

It is weird when people get defensive about their beloved town. It is one of the several reasons why I found it hard to find support when I was l there. Good for you if your experience in Bendigo was good. That's great. But that does not dismiss someone else's horrible experience in a place where there are a lot of connections with one another.

I did express in this post that I was mostly bullied and harassed by people I didn't know for several years. That isn't my fault at all. Everyone deserves to feel safe and to be safe, and obviously if it happened to me and a similar thing happened to couple of others who reached out to me privately since I made my post, then there is an issue going on somewhere within certain dynamics, stemming from certain school environments etc.