@Hoss An actually respectable take, even if I do not agree with it, in my anger-induced shitpost. Amazing, I thought those went extinct before I was born.
If it works for you and you like it, more power to you, fren. Actually living in both kinds of places and having a preference of one over the other puts you ahead of most people. Almost like people have preferences or something. The Internet seems to have made people forget that little detail.
I've probably just been lucky where I lived for just over four years (a city frequently shit on by terminally online Internet types) and unlucky the place I've lived for at least twenty (a town/village in an obvious state of decline you can even notice from the three times Google Streetview has been through the town). Maybe it's a regional thing, who knows.