To work from home, you still need quality internet. The further out you get from the city, the worse the quality tend to be. No sane ISP is going to invest in

To work from home, you still need quality internet. The further out you get from the city, the worse the quality tend to be. No sane ISP is going to invest in fiber connections to "middle of nowhere". ISPs invest in areas where the money is likely to be in. That's not even including the other challenges that the other person wrote; sparse areas tend to have less investments in their infrastructure as well. People live closer to the city for all sorts of reasons; health cares systems are better, more public infrastructure in place (think cops, libraries, public transportation, etc).