Between 20-30% of Americans love outside metropolitan areas. The current car centric system honestly works great in agricultural communities, just not for the rest of us.

I don't think you're referring to the same kind of ruralness as the op.

If you've seen the rural areas of the midwest its literally acres of fields, one farmhouse and its accompanying sheds/silos/whatever, and then more vast area of field or wilderness

Like this. There's some decently rural parts of california, but honestly they aren't even close to the midwest levels of ruralness.