[sjmm1989]

Don't listen to that blow hard. They clearly have never lived in a rural area before, or had a really bad experience in a rare situation.

Here's the truth of it for ya. Most of the technologically inclined people you are looking for in the rural areas tend to move to the cities; from the rural areas. Mostly due to the only thing that user was correct about. Opportunity.

But once they have the money to come back home, they do.

When I left my rural spot, we had people coming back to buy farms and build families. Solar panels, Starlink, etc.

Do yourself a favor and call the town offices of each place you are interested in. They can help you find out more about what they are looking to do in their respective areas, and maybe point you to some people in the same areas that might be good to talk to.

Yes, there will be religious people. But guess what? They exist in cities too. Yes there will be conservative people. But guess what? They exist in cities too.

And I can keep going on and on with that on rinse and repeat for literally anything that can be said about rural folk. Why?

Cause they move to the fucking city.

[Clubber]

Something else to consider, you want to be within 30 or so miles from a grocery store and a hospital. I would suggest looking for land outside a medium city.

[hunterb123]

Small towns have grocery stores and hospitals...

My small town has a Walmart supercenter and another grocery store

Rural is generally farm land outside of small towns, that's where people drive to get groceries.

Land outside a medium city is a suburb, not rural.