Outside of city centers in my state it’s almost 20% less per hour. Sure, the housing is cheaper, but other goods cost the same. That’s 20% less money to spend on groceries, cell phone bill, gas, car payment, etc. Also, moving out of the city, I would have to get a car again to get anywhere, instead of using the bus. It doesn’t always make sense to just drop everything and move to the burbs.
Money, services, and better job quality are all found in cities. Rural is physical labor and bad pay. It usually also smells like either a farm or chemicals for those rural jobs too.
Cities are where civilization grows.
Spoken like someone who never got out of the city they live in.
You realise that there’s many steps between major city centers and bum fuck nowhere, right?
In a town of around 10k you’ll have everything you need to spend your whole life there if you want.
People like you act so smug towards the people who bring food to your table, extract the minerals necessary for you to have access to the internet, cut the wood used to build the furniture you’ve got… Cities don’t exist without rural areas, rural areas continue sustaining themselves without cities.
spoken like someone who never left the town of 10k
people like you act so smug to the people who make the tools or services you use. rural areas without cities are Bronze Age sustenance farming towns that die the second there is a bad harvest.