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To say city life is bad and rural life is good is not really a catchall statement. Every rural town I've visited (in the deep south and Florida at least) has had illteracy problems and self destructive people, just as you'd become familiar with in a big city. It really does boil down to personal preference.
I hate the city but after a while I recognized it's because I'm socially maladjusted (I am working on improving this), and I wouldn't be much happier if I lived my day to day in a tiny Appalachian town. Maybe something for you /out/ists to consider is that your universal condemnation of city life is you attempting to rationalize your own internal shortcomings.
A healthy person will find contentness in either scenario.
