Most of my life, except the year I studied abroad (and stuff like holidays), and including time in university (I’m still here BTW, as a PhD student). (OTOH, given that this is a university town, the fraction of these people who are the appropriate age is a lot larger than the national average.) But especially when I grew up—where (even if the population is not as small as what you probably had in mind when you said “village”) ISTM that most people only date people they have already known for years.
Most of my life, except the year I studied abroad (and stuff like holidays), and including time in university (I’m still here BTW, as a PhD student). (OTOH, given that this is a university town, the fraction of these people who are the appropriate age is a lot larger than the national average.) But especially when I grew up—where (even if the population is not as small as what you probably had in mind when you said “village”) ISTM that most people only date people they have already known for years.