I never moved to a mega city but I've been pretty close to the countryside my whole life. Was very close to moving to SF in the late 1990s and to NYC in the mid

I never moved to a mega city but I've been pretty close to the countryside my whole life. Was very close to moving to SF in the late 1990s and to NYC in the mid-2000's but those didn't happen for various reasons. Grew up in a farmhouse built in the 1840's. First house I bought was built in 1890 and was on the edge of a protected wetlands. Second and current house is much newer, 1990's, but is on the edge of a national forest. There's been a "city" within 20 miles at all times so we're not totally secluded. All of my work through the 2000's could've been remote and finally switched to fully remote about 7 years ago. I have a choice of either DSL or cable internet. A few miles away some businesses have fiber either through Google or a local ISP, but it all depends on if the building had existing dark fiber going in. No one is piping in new stuff. I've been tempted to rent office space in one of these buildings but never pulled the trigger as home internet is mostly fast enough. One benefit that's nice, but sort of outside of the OP's question is that my family has travelled quite a bit including weeks in Asia and some of my clients never knew. I just had to schedule meetings either at the very beginning or very end of their business days to align with my sleep schedule. Real estate in areas like this can be stupid cheap as well. My wife manages rental properties and two of the apartment buildings we've bought cost less than than our cars did new.