Also, quite a lot of "but public transport don't work in rural areas!"
Look, I grew up in a rural area. I could literally watch sheep grazing on a hill less than 50m from my parent's house kitchen window. My town was around 4k people.
Still, we had a bus going to the nearby (and similarly-sized) towns every 15 minutes. Two buses per hour to the provincial capital, and one to the other "big" (around 200k people) city of my province. A train to the capital and another to the 'big city' every hour. My town was in the bottom of a valley, and around it had maybe 20-30 hamlets (10-100 people each) between 2 and 10 km away from town, mostly in the surrounding mountains, and every day several buses go through them to pick the kids who live there and take them to school/high school in my town and back.
Hell, these are some of the stops in the train line that took me to the province capital, the one I used to take every day to go to college:
I don't think I've ever seen more than 1 or 2 people take or leave the train in any of those three stops. In the last one, you couldn't even see any houses around from the train. Most of the times, the train just stopped and left without taking or leaving anyone. Still, they were important for some people, who deserved to have a trustable public transport network.
Public transport in rural areas is perfectly possible. You just need to remember that it is a SERVICE and not a BUSINESS.
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And that kids is how I managed to see Giancarlo Espocito by saying that I was Pau’s caretaker. (He waved at me)