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I mean ... Yes, but rural?
As someone who grew up in a rural area let me fully endorse 'rural' as a negative :p
I'm the first generation of my family to not grow up on a farm in middle of nowhere Illinois. 100% agree.
My dad got out and off to college. Never went back.
It's somewhat sad to think my not too distant relatives moved here from Germany just before WWI to have their own land. And a couple generations later it was practically given away when sold. But with how hard farming is maybe my great grandfather would be proud we got out.
Your great-grandfather moved to a foreign country that spoke a different language for an opportunity for a better life.
Leaving everything and setting up new was following in the tradition. Not living in fear and poverty afraid to make the changes to make things better.
It's something that all those idiots who are proud of 6 generations of farming as a tradition seem not to understand. Farming is a business that takes knowledge, capital and constant re-investment to potentially succeed.
My grandparents on both sides went bankrupt farming due to bad business decisions. They of course blamed everyone but themselves for it until they died.