I hear you - freezers all around us are filled with moose, venison & turkey. Bartering is just as alive now as it was for our relatives in the 1700’s. There’s nothing we wouldn’t do for our neighbors - they’re family as far as we’re concerned.
Rural vs city. Farm vs suburb. Its not putting one down for the other, at times one method works the other don’t. Right now if I have to I can drop a cow, deer, elk, moose, or ducks and geese. I can live, comfortably?? not really, but t I am still here. How we live is only important as how we use it. My neighbors have to eat too. It’s the country way.