And I've noticed this before, and I've mentioned it before. In my experience, it's not rural folks who have this ignorance or lack of appreciation of cities (they enjoy visiting them), but rather, it's usually city folks who are ignorant of what rural life is like and base their conclusions about it on absurd stereotypes, as you and Chris do. You'll note that most of things I listed are quantifiable, whether it's air quality, crime rates, amount of traffic, and so on. You'll also note that I'm not getting hostile, either, yet you're reacting the same way you do when I disagree with your movie or music picks.
As it happens, I live in close enough proximity to the Twin Cities that we get a flow of people leaving them for country life. Interestingly, many of them share your political ideology. Curiously, they seem not to want to live in a place where the policies of the politicians they elect are implemented, and instead willingly move to much redder areas. I think perhaps we should chew on that for awhile.