It’s safer until a truckload of illegals with guns come down the driveway. Then it’s war, and they’ve got the element of surprise to their advantage.
It is math.
The only crimes I have experienced in this lifetime was when I lived in an urban environment.
While the past does not guarantee the future it does tell us something about probabilities.
“The perfect is the enemy of the good.”
There’s a better field of fire with more space.
Only in the first few seconds. The sound of a firefight will alert the neighbors, who hopefully you’ve cultivated a good relationship with.
After the first few incidents, any “urban looking” people will start getting shot on sight.
You see you picture "rural" as a lone farmhouse in the middle of no where with a creaking windmill.
However on planet reality rather then in a stupid movie, the "lone farmhouse" is actually a group of five or six houses.
And the road leading to that area will have twenty or thirty houses along the way.
And every single one of those houses will be watching. And they will be talking to each other.
And by the time the Truck of Illegals gets half way there, they are going to be stopped. And asked what their business is.
And when they are stopped there will be at least four rifles trained on them that they can see.
And they are, if they are smart, going to quietly turn around and go back to your apartment.
The ones I don’t get my fairly close neighbors “by rural standards” would finish them off. I really doubt that they will get 10+ criminals to go redneck hunting when gunfire is heard almost all days in different areas. Almost everyone here has their own burm / shooting area. That ain’t fireworks.
There is a certain mindset of people that have an advantage in a rural setting. You either have it or you don’t. My family and closest neighbors have it. We have prepared and will survive just fine. Good luck to everyone else.