Hardly.
Unless a town has a military base, hospital, large public school, or other source of government money, it's doomed to failure.
Money is taxed out of the community and never comes back, reducing demand for local services, decreasing employment, etc.
Forgetting the farm programs?
nope some small towns offer exactly what the people moving to them want. ALL communities are taxed and on that basis alone ALL towns not urban will fail by your logic. That certainly is the goal of the agenda 21 crowd. The truth is that places come and go and always have