The correlation is a matter of fact, but I find your inference about the direction of causality improbable. Do people decide whether to live in the country or t

The correlation is a matter of fact, but I find your inference about the direction of causality improbable. Do people decide whether to live in the country or the city, and then end up landowners or poor as a result? Or do people who own land in the country stay there, and people who are poor live in the city because it's harder to survive in poverty in the country?