There’s pros and cons, and if you can find me a liberal rural area with lots of left leaning folks I’ll add it to the list. I’d rather die with other leftists than surrounded by chuds I have to “tolerate”.

Oh boy, hate to break it to you but outside of the utopias of liberal big cities, you're going to learn that most of America has chuds everywhere.... No one is saying you have to deal with them. Most of us living in rural areas, keep to ourselves.

I'd much rather live out here, instead of a big city where the taxes are more expensive, price of commodities more expensive and it's next to impossible to afford anything. Don't bother anyone in the rural country, and they won't bother you. Don't feel safe? Get armed and do firearm training. Easier to do that in the rural areas anyway than the big cities where they have extreme gun control laws.