I understand what you mean, Silvia. I was born in 1962 in a small village in Limburg. That is the most southern part of The Netherlands where almost everybody is (or was) catholic. (Just like in your village I assume?) When I was 24 I got married to my high school sweetheart and we moved to Amsterdam. Living here opened my eyes in many ways and I think I would have been a very different person today, had I stayed in my place of birth.