I've just come out of 4.5 years of living rural (across three locations) and I have to say, being released from the constant, constant planning involved is the biggest advantage of living in a town.
That said, some folks will probably laugh at 'rural' - our nearest town was 8 miles away.
You never get to 'just pop into town' for some milk; trips to town become a military operation. You have to go to a) to drop off a parcel of clothes you ordered that don't fit, b) to drop off an Amazon return, c) to pick up a drillbit, d) to get half a week's supermarket shop and e) to get another type of food that supermarket d) don't do as well.
It becomes 2-3 hours, at the end of which you're knackered, it's eaten away most of your evening (you've had to eat a 5pm to squeeze all this in) or half a weekend day, and then you have to do it all again the following week.
Ordering stuff starts to become a mental block for the sheer number of returns.
The worst thing for me was veg. Most supermarket veg is already going off by the time you've bought it these days, we didn't have a cold store room, or even storage really for a Riverford Organics box. I hate bad food, I threw so much stuff away that was 'on the turn.'
Food planning became a tedious chore. Buying anything online became tedious because 50% of the time, stuff needed returning.
Autumn/winter became tedious: it snowed, the snow in town was gone the next day, for us the roads were frozen for 9 days. Or, you'd go out to the next (uphill) village and hit an almost solid wall of fog.
I'm really good at planning, I used to do it for a job, but the extreme amount of planning it took to live semi-rurally just made me intensely resent it.
I should add, I don't drive, so most of the chores involved my partner driving on weekends and evenings (dreadful bus service), and that didn't help. But, even if I did drive, I think I'd probably feel the same way.
Idk if it matters to you, but our last rural place had 16 power cuts in the first year, and our first rural place had 82 internet outages in a 9 month period.
You can put in whatever precautions you want (i.e., a generator), but you can't control the local electricity board/phone providers not maintaining trees along the lines. There's a certain amount of time they have to be down before they have to provide compensation, but, even worse, with our electricity board, there was 0 unless the village had a population of more than 5k people (hello? do you KNOW what a village is). So, there was really very little incentive for them to pull their finger out and do anything about it.