Most of my stress comes from dealing with idiots. The person in the car who cuts you up. The car driver who does not let you pass and speeds up , then slows down on a two lane highway. The person who cuts you up in line, or you hold the door and they have no manners etc.
Why deal with all that ignorance when I can live in a safe sanctuary.
The traffic in the city-50 miles away-is another reason I live -and work-in a rural area-I do not go to the city to buy stuff, either-if I can’t find what I want in the town of less than 900, 16 miles away, I drive 30 miles to the next county-the only city there has 24,000 people and some big box stores-and no major traffic or freeways...