Might seem ironic that I'd feel better about a teenager staying out late at night in a city rather than the country!
I think differently about that. We live on a farm 42km from town and as our times gets closer to having teens in the house, I am so grateful that we live where we do and not in town. Our kids wont be able to sneak out at night because they wont be able to just go down the road to a party and even when they do get their licenses they wont be able to just take a car either, but in town they can sneak out at will. But the problem will eventually lie with trusting the parents of our kids friends to do the *right* thing and make sure that they know where the kids are. Luckily our kids have a great bunch of friends with lovely parents at this point in their lives but that may not always be the case kwim? They might start to fall into friendships that aren't healthy or ideal or they may have parents who take a very casual approach to these sorts of things.

I remember when I was a teen that growing up where I did that there were those of us in town and those that lived on farms and of course we all snuck out! And when the ones out of town stayed in town with friends that there were always things going on that their parents wouldn't have known about or approved of. My mum was the one that was too casual and I'm pretty sure that there would have been some people that thought badly of that but she was a product of her upbringing - Mum was pretty rebellious and often her own mum would find out where mum was and come in a taxi and drag her home (nan never drove a car) and that only caused more problems so I guess she took the approach she did with us because she didn't want to repeat the mistakes her mum made, but now HER approach has also influenced the way I feel about it LOL. I was the 'good' kid, but she did have a lot of problems with my sister and brother (the other two brothers were/are fine) and I am not going to repeat that with my kids so I'm taking the middle road LOL and being hard, but fair. Because ultimately it is our responsibility how our kids behave and when we are trusted with other peoples kids for the night, or they with ours, I would like to think that there would be enough communication between the adults to make sure that the kids don't fall into that cycle of lying about where they are going and what they are doing.