it seems that from all the replies if you get into GA, you will be stuck in GA.
Very incorrect.
I've gone through GA, plus done a few other things along the way. Have had a ball, gained some valuable experience, seen the countryside, met many lifelong friends (including my wife), and now I'm off to the airlines. The social life in these 'back country towns' is perfectly fine if you're not a bore who doesn't mind socializing with others in a non-nightclub environment.
Everyone who I went through GA with is either in the airlines, or in some other sector of the industry that is of their choosing.
morno