Spoiler alert: I have done this and they disagree with you.

Look, everything is contextual -- your rural area may be superior in some respects to the ones I've been to. But you also shouldn't assume that your experience is universal.

Edited to add: if you haven't been to a big city in a while, you should take a trip. They're not generally the hellholes you've been led to believe by right-wing news media.

I've had to drive around riots coming home living in a big city. With life/limb threatened by both police and rioters.

Never once came close in rural America, ever.