It is great! With not so many people around it actually feels easier for me to be connected with the people. If my car needs fixing, I just call my neighbour. And when their horses need their hooves trimmed, they call me. And when a nearby miller needs software for his company, he calls me, and when I visit there I get leftover grain for my sheep. If my neighbours see a lynx crossing their yard, they also call me so I know take special care of my animals. All this kind of little things make life feel so rich and full. People of different ages, with different worldviews and lifestyles still maintain connections and help each other.
And of course it is nice to have a broad-band internet connection in the house =) It makes it easy to keep contact with the friends living in cities. And every now and then they come to visit my place, to enjoy countryside and to help with practical work. Or to eat, to have sauna and to dance, as in my place you can freely turn the volume up without having to bother about neighbours complaining about the noise.
Also, I enjoy being connected to nature. When I need something from a city, I can always visit there. I do that maybe once in eight weeks, so it is not that often. The only downside is that my daily life depends on driving a car. It is not so ecological, it costs a lot of money, and I don't like it that much. Ah, and it would be fanstastic to live in same area with Sami, so that it would be easy to visit each other more often.