This ideal rural place is so different from the rural that I see. But I know it's just a game, and Countries and areas can be very different.
In the game, the land you inherited from your grandpa can be left along for so many years, no one has already seized it. Even the Mayor has left it along, not put it into some other uses. Maybe it really is very remote, to the point no one thinks it's somehow profitable.
The residents in this game are not paranoia. They don't view you as some outsider who wants to take something from them or hurt them. (Edit: Well, some are indeed very cautious.) We had a relative who went to remote areas in their youth, they went back suicidal. There were several neighbours went back from different villages over the years. All of them seem to full of fear. Even us went out receiving parcels or stray cats went by can trigger them. One of the time we were downstairs recycling our things, The neighbour thought we were damaging their water pipes.
And young people didn't all went away. There are actually many young people staying in this rural town.
Pierre's store sell genuine goods.
The worst things they experience are having a boring futureless job, loneliness, and without a girlfriend.
But at lease it makes you want to live in it, the people in there are so much better.