We live outside of the city limits of a small town. We have a well, septic, and LP for heat. City slickers have better internet, city sewer and water, electrical heat, the works. We can't run to the city council when we have to dig up our septic or drill a new well, and we still pay property taxes on yer damn school referendums and educating yer spoiled brats. Bite me, send me a card.
Well we get all those 'better' things because we enable them to be provided more efficiently, by living closer together. And put up with all the downsides of that, like noise, less personal space, and pollution.
Country people seem to want to keep to themselves all the upsdies of low-density living, like fresh air, nice views, lack of noise, etc, yet demand city people pay to remove the downsides, like the greater expense of providing services like the ones you mention.
Though ironically, the right-wing free-marketeers those country people tend to vote for, seem to end up undermining the very subsidies they demand, e.g. subsidising rural postal services. The response is usually "when we said we wanted people to have to face the cold winds of free-market competition, we didn't mean _us_"
I mean, it's complicated - there _are_ poor rural people. I think the types I most dislike are those who won't pick a side, who have two homes, one in the city and one in the country, and drive their oversized 4x4 and annoy everyone around them in both places.