Corruption isn't a city-exclusive thing either, obviously. I can't think of one rural county commission I have been familiar with where permits are issued equally and without special considerations and there isn't one of them sleeping with the country clerk or something. Why, in my town, a school board member was sleeping with two of the school janitors, got them promotions and resigned when his wife found out.
And personally, I like gravel roads. Keeps the riff-raff out.