I'm from a very rural area, like Cornwall, and have also lived in the centre of a large city, and also worked in central Manchester for quite some time.
It's a myth that the countryside is slower. If you find the scenery to be relaxing and if it helps your mood and outlook on life, that's one thing, otherwise it's only clueless or privileged people who say it's slower. The type that don't actually live in the countryside and who spend their summertimes relaxing in villages in the South of France or Spain, and they think that is basically what the countryside is. I wonder what some of the local tractor drivers would think about your opinion, the ones I see still at work when it's dark.
Like I said, I've worked and commuted into central Manchester (and London actually), and nobody has to rush anywhere. That is mostly the choosing of certain people who like to tell everybody with ears how incredibly busy and rushed off their feet they are all the time.
Most people in the countryside have normal jobs. If their work starts at 9am, they have to be there to start at 9am. If they need to catch a train home at 5pm, they can't rock up at 4.59pm and expect to find it waiting with a friendly train driver ready to wait. Unless there are delays, it will depart at 5pm.
Instead of traffic lights, you have to allow for tractors and old people who will not or cannot drive more than a top speed of 40mph, and will absolutely refuse to pull over to let the 15+ cars behind them to get on with their day.
Also I'm curious to know what traditional is. Is it that is doesn't have a transient population and that people know who their neighbours are? Usually people say traditional to mean conservative in some way or they think it's going to be like The Darling Buds of May.