Rural communities have strong social cohesion out of necessity, not desire. I grew up rural, so I have some experience with this. Suburbia hits the sweet spot

Rural communities have strong social cohesion out of necessity, not desire. I grew up rural, so I have some experience with this. Suburbia hits the sweet spot of introverted personality types: you don't NEED to know your neighbors, because there are sufficient services/resources to handle everything yourself, but you also don't get hemmed into an urban chicken coop that forces you to know your neighbors. The only people who raise alarms about "social atomization" are extroverts, and they're entirely incapable of understanding that some people actually prefer their isolation.