> I've heard of horrifying schools in middle-of-nowhere towns that will never get his kind of attention.
The fact that practically all rural public schools are bad is what keeps us from living the remote-work dream of moving out to a quaint little town or cheap country house. If you're not rich enough for (good) private schools (bad private schools are more common than one might expect, though), and not daring enough to hope to luck into a good urban charter school, then you're basically stuck living in the 'burbs, even if you'd prefer either the city or the country/small-town to that.
The fact that practically all rural public schools are bad is what keeps us from living the remote-work dream of moving out to a quaint little town or cheap country house. If you're not rich enough for (good) private schools (bad private schools are more common than one might expect, though), and not daring enough to hope to luck into a good urban charter school, then you're basically stuck living in the 'burbs, even if you'd prefer either the city or the country/small-town to that.