LOL, the only "rural" areas that are remotely decent to live in are ones which are within driving distance of cities where the population generally ends up working. I've driven through half the US counties. Much of rural America is a dump where the only grocery store is a Dollar General in a dilapidated downtown where much of the commercial real estate has either been abandoned or consists of nothing but antique shops and bars and it's pure guess work if one of the endless abandoned homes is a meth house or simply a farm let go fallow. US Census checks out on this too, since those places constantly see an outflow of people as there aren't any jobs and no future hope of them.