I'd love to live like this and have an SO that would as well. The problem for us is: food. We've come to be accustomed to a wide variety of multi-cultural cuisines.
We both work remotely and can live where we want. We've recently experimented in living in more "out there" places, but in the end we're moving back to civilization because we want our Japanese/Mexican/Indian/Vietnamese...
Not sure what the answer is for this problem. We can both cook but even sourcing the ingredients for a lot of non-American food is nearly impossible in even a second tier city.