I thought this and moved to a rural part of Ireland. It was horrible (though even many Irish dislike the midlands)
One sometimes forgotten issue is that being a 45 minute drive from a hospital is really scary when your 2 year old is struggling to breath at 3 AM.
If it weren't for trees, I would be able to see the hospital from my place. Obviously one could go deep into the middle of an expansive forest and say that rural areas has no infrastructure, but if you were choosing where to live on the basis of infrastructure, you wouldn't choose there...
Given the rural areas that have infrastructure, I still wonder what is missing, passenger trains aside?