I am going to keep talking about my little town until I am blue in the face.
Cool shit is possible!
I could walk outside and fire a gun and not hit a thing. Fields and woods for miles in front of me.
Don't have a sidewalk. Water drains into ditches in front of our homes. We get our power, water, trash via a co-opt. In the last three months my high has been $104.95/month for said services. I have a four bedroom house.
I have bus service 1.5 blocks from my house. Rail 3 miles. Parking is free and for $7 I can use the service all day.
Half a billion dollar airport.
19th best school district in the state. In an election where we voted for McCain over Obama, and this is Illinois, we voted to raise our taxes to build this high school. Huge segment of land. Built the new school behind the old one. Where the old one, we replanted all the stuff before us "white" folks got here. I walk it daily!
Hard for you to find how to walk this or that way and not find a park.