Often the suburbs than strictly rural areas in America, but people moving to rural (especially scenic) locales isn’t uncommon.

Theres something very soul crushing about decades of suburbanite living. Theres a lot of country/rural folks in the comment section who are singing all the bad parts of that kind of life, but they don't know what its like to live your whole life in one big cramped giant shopping mall surrounded by hundreds of houses withing a mile. with no nature in sight except the tiny ass overregulated national/state 'parks'. Nowhere to really go and nothing to see unless you're prepared to go miles since almost every town is so overdeveloped. The light pollution so bad only the brightest stars can be seen, some people live and die never seeing the night sky in its true glory. The real threat of not enough jobs and homelessness if you cant pay this months ever rising 1500$ rent, or sign up for decades of debt for a mortgage just for a small poorly constructed 2 story house. I want fresh air, and a beautiful night sky, to actually own a piece of land without being in debt the rest of my life, and not be bothered or seen by a single human being unless wanted, and to not worry about HOA bullshit and nosey onlooking neighbors watching me from across the yard. Fuck convinence, fuck 500,000$ homes, fuck middle class suburbanite yuppies who ruin every place they touch with endless gentrification to have a safe place for 'teh family', you want it you can have it.

I feel this too. I want space and quiet.