Comfort vs habitable: Why rural dwellings beat urban housing

Urban areas lead in access to improved sources of water, with 78.9 per cent of households in the urban areas compared to 55.9 per cent in the rural areas. [File, Standard]

Urban dwellers are hard to convince out of their belief that they live considerably better than those in the countryside.

When one imagines the city, it is often about the grandiose lifestyle, imposing skyscrapers, posh automobiles, fancy homes in the most expensive suburbs and floodlights that turn night into day.