People have been forced into cities by the cold hard reality of the physical world. That reality is that it's dramatically cheaper to provide services to peopl

People have been forced into cities by the cold hard reality of the physical world. That reality is that it's dramatically cheaper to provide services to people that are living close to eachother. Unless we get to a post-scarcity utopia, or someone repeals the law of economics, city services will continue to be, as a rule, better and, in relative terms, cheaper than rural ones.