I mean, there were still fast food joins, crackheads behind the gas stations, truck stop hookers, squatters in the run down Motel 6, Waffle Houses fill with what looks like clones of every Waffle House staff .. and behind our apartments were some guys who were constantly working on their trucks; tweakers literally tweaking everything while strung out on meth. Someone stole my other neighbor's lawn chairs ... middle of nowhere still has its problems.
But it also had wide swaths of nowhere you could high through for hours. Would still take it over the Pacific Northwest.