The county I live in, Fairfax, Va, has a density of about 2800/square mile. Most of my life I have lived in the North East Megalopolis, which has fairly high population density for the US.

Even when I was in Western Pennsylvania, what we considered fairly isolated villages were that way mostly because of the mountainous terrain. Not far from each other per a crow, but a larger distance due to having to drive around things like mountains. (That’s foothills to you folks out West.).

Even when I have been in extremely rural places like Arkansas or Oklahoma I was on Army posts of many thousands, and not in a rural small village.

That has me wondering about how different the life experience is.