Sounds like Rocky can be described as a typical Country Australian town
If you were born there, you either get out or die there
If you move there, your great grandkids will be classed as locals, you, your kids and grandkids are still blow ins.
Everyone will say g'day, yet no one will talk, you will get RBT'ed by the local police almost daily until they see something to fine you with, be it a bald tyre, broken blinker or 1km over the speed limit, at this point providing your not a total ratbag you can drive at 110kph in a school zone and just get a wave and a nod.
Commodities will either be dirt cheap if mass produced locally or bloody expensive (this is dependant on location)
On the realestate side of things, if you rent a place you'll most likely be shown the rental list of all the dodgiest and cheapest houses in the town until you specify you want something decent and don't care what it costs, then the other local rental list immerges.
Just my experiences, I wouldn't move my family to another country town unless there was some serious money on offer.
