If you think that shit is rural, even by definition, oh boy are you off the mark. It's pretty much the definition of suburbia. How many folks on those shows were loggers? Farmers? Miners? Ranchers? Easy one here, truck drivers?
None of them. Rosanne worked at a diner and a plastics plant and Hank sold propane. Those are working-class blue-collar jobs. But neither are rural.
The fuck person are you going to find to hang drywall like Dan Connor did professionally in a town of 1000 people out in the boonies? You have a base industry and a couple shops for basic home supplies and maybe a bank and that's it. If you want drywall hung, you do it your damn self. It doesn't sustain itself as a business out there so you don't have professionals available.
You starting to get my point about the out of touch thing?