That doesn't even work when it involves the Metro areas like Metro Seattle, home to Microsoft. That's not actually "rural"
Microsoft is not in Metro Seattle. Nowhere near it, actually. They are headquartered in suburban Redmond.
huh?
The Seattle metropolitan area covers from Tacoma clear north to Everett (and before you know it - from Olympia to Bellingham).
Redmond is definitely in metro Seattle.
And to the OP's point - Verizon is unloading it's Oregon presence - Intel (and a whole slew of tech companies) in Washington County - is in METRO Portland.
