Well, an uneducated and untalented limp fuck like yourself would not do well here.
However, millions seem to thrive and make it. Some very successful and very wealthy multigenerational families call those places home.
Some of the best and biggest corporations in the world make their home in those places, no plans of moving.
Loosers, who have been dependent on government their whole life, again, like you, would find it more difficult. Not only do you to compete with a wide pool of people, some of them are not even white.
So, people like you move to small towns, giving you an unrealistic view of MOST people's everyday life, and bitch about the big city. Your whole existence becomes about you and selfishness. It's why you elect people that hate muslims, demean blacks and hispanics, talk about those bad big cities while they steal every bit of the little taxes you pay, to give tax breaks to the very wealthy, usually tied to the places you ******* on.
California, the world's 5th largest economy, was doing very well until Coronavirus. Very well