Hard mode, don’t mention cars.
And you don’t find farmers living in homesteads, they lived in the city and the fields were close by. They literally relocated them for efficiency.
As someone who lived there, it was not cities, more like outgrowth of villages with maybe 300-500 people, local nurse, 1-2 shops and train station
That’s not rural, was there apartments of any kind? How far is the spread between buildings?
No apartments, small houses in russian style, maybe 60-100 feet apart, with fields outside.
Such small villages usually had some small factory/farm, and young people (later than in cities though, like 10-12), would hop on train to bigger city for school, younger education was done by like 1 teacher, with generic education, like writing/reading/literature/math. (But our education structure is also very different, that’s basically all kids learn at first). Bigger villages have/had bigger schools, with more differentiated teachers and full education available, or at least generic one
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujian_tulou
apartment style housing is in no way contradictory with rural living or farming. The Hakka people have been using packed earth techniques to construct ecologically sustainable communal housing divided into what could be considered apartments.
