That’s true there many an out of the way place that in most towns that look abandoned and yet would make a good place to lay low during shtf.
In a SHTF situation many necessities and conveniences may be partial, sporadic, or unavailable. Things like water, sewage, fire departments, electricity, natural gas, propane, etc.
I’d much rather be “out in the middle of nowhere” than in the middle a hundreds of thousands or millions of people who cannot find water with which to drink, bathe or wash their clothes, fires that cannot be extinguished, stores that cannot function due to no electricity, or no products delivered, no gasoline, etc.
I can’t stand cities as they are now. I cannot imagine living in one once things really start to break down.