Suburbs and most rural areas are not the "green open spaces" we imagine them to be. The built space is mostly concrete and miserable.
Do you walk anywhere? Do you cycle anywhere? Or do you spent every moment outside a building in a car?
Rural homes are not in the middle of nature. They're houses next to a highway.
@smeg Often that is true. But, it's not a universal. I've lived in houses that had a half-mile privately maintained driveway, after going 3 miles down a non-paved county road that branches off a two-lane, no-shoulder state "highway".
My current "rural" home is less than one city block away from a U.S. numbered highway, tho. So, lots of variation.
Being "in the middle of nature" often means you need a car to go shopping, sure, because you are separated from commerce by a lot of nature!