There are advantages and disadvantages to being in the city and country. For example I live in the suburb of a city. I'm right off the electrical and gas grid that feeds an office building holding 10k workers and a huge mall, my utilities rarely go out and are repaired quickly when they do.
Parents are in the country and have counted up 30 days without electricity since July. Day 14 now since Sandy came through. Their propane company predicts usage based on previous data and refills their tank when it gets down to 25% and they just ran out a couple days ago and are on the wait list now since the storm messed up the supply lines and the elderly and such get priority.