Short answer: depending on your definition of rural, yes, there are def pockets of tech folks in rural areas. These rural areas with tech folks tend to be oute

Short answer: depending on your definition of rural, yes, there are def pockets of tech folks in rural areas. These rural areas with tech folks tend to be outer suburbs of cities and/or niche touristy/outdoor places -- basically work-remote tech folks who live at an area to enjoy the other aspects the land can offer. I run a remote-first business around Lake Tahoe in Nevada and there's def large pockets of CA tech expatriates here settling down here, but this area isn't exactly rural, it's a big tourist town. As you go east you end up in the desert and it gets pretty rural, and there's def a tech segment out there though it's highly correlated with a communal/art scene courtesy of Burning Man (art hippies that happen to tech).