You remind me of a family I'm friends with who live in an Austrian farmhouse. They raise cattle, log and sell firewood, hunt deer and chamois (a kind of wild goat-antelope) and run a very very old-school hotel. The next "big" city where they buy everything they need is less than 10,000 people. Years ago the patriarch took a trip to Munich (metro area then was over 1M people) and was overwhelmed and decided not to do that again. It was too big for him. Anyway, good on you for not being closed to new places and experiences.