Yeah, as someone who grew up on 12 acres off a dirt road -- in the comparitively populated SE corner of Michigan and still within the suburban area of a small city as well -- I think a lot of the more Eurasian crowd have a hard time understanding the true scope of situations like North American rural communities.
Cable didn't even come up to our street, and this is ~4mi from the local town -- pretty far from 'super rural' in local terms.