There are certain services which are available everywhere with relatively equal quality: power, mail, water, voice cellular phone, and wired telephone.

One server that isn't available, despite subsidies given to build it out, is high speed broadband- both wired and wireless.

>Its way easier to get everything from Thai food to dry cleaning to auto parts in a city.

Actually it was easier in the remoter parts of Ohio for me to get parts than it ever has been in NYC or SF.