What should I do to live in a declining region

Why did humans come to the countryside in the first place?
After all, they're probably looking for food and safety.
In the taiga drama “Onna Castle Lord Naotora,” the main characters living in the Sengoku period took refuge in a “hidden village.” They secretly built fields in an unexplored area not found by the scary lord Imagawa Clan, etc., to evade taxes, and ensure the safety of their own food and personal safety.

The Japanese countryside is rich in nature and has developed agricultural infrastructure.
Whether in the city or in the countryside, if you live in Japan, you don't have to worry about starving to death, and there's plenty of clean water.

Meanwhile, overseas, there are many people who die of hunger, and there are many children who cannot find clean water and suffer from thirst and infectious diseases.
The entire planet is starving to death at the speed of one person every few seconds.

It's strange, isn't it? In Japan, many rice paddies with well-maintained irrigation canals are fallow because there is no profit even if too much rice is produced.
Yet on a global scale, there is not enough food or water.

The Japanese countryside is a treasure trove.
Seen by people from overseas, it's an area they want so much that their hands stick out of their throat.
Also, although Japan's population is declining, the number of people on the planet as a whole has increased and there is not enough food.
Please take a global perspective on humanity as a whole.
Japan's rural areas are rich cities on a global scale.
On a human scale, the value of rural Japan is rising steadily.

So, there's still more to choose from in the future.
If you don't like the countryside, you can make your own decisions and go out to the city.
Blaming others may be a good way to protect your own pride worries.
In the end, it was my own choice.

I read it.
You might be right to think so. However, you are responsible for the choices you make, and there are probably many people who were happy that you made that decision.
However, if you can't give up no matter what, I think it's okay to reconsider and live in a city.
I lived in Tokyo right after I graduated from high school. I lived for about 20 years, but since there were so many people, it was hard to commute, and the race for survival was difficult. I was driven away by foolish expressions such as winners and losers, so I was always living with mental illness.
I'm not comparing them separately, but the countryside is laid-back. I don't often get kicked out until I die due to commuting or work. Also, the cost of living is low, and the food is cheap and delicious. There are many things you can't eat in Tokyo.
Certainly, first-class ingredients and products will go to Tokyo, but they have nothing to do with the general public.

Once you go to the city, you'll understand even if you don't like it
The good and bad of cities.
The goodness of the countryside too.

I sincerely pray that you will be able to make firm decisions for the future and that you will have a healthy everyday life.

Please do your best. I'm rooting for you.

　The point of your concern is that even though you have made the choice to “continue to stay in the countryside,” you are writing that choice as if it were of a will other than your own.
If the feeling that I actually wanted to go out to the city remains somewhere, this problem will not be solved.

Still, it's a little strange that the decision to “go to the city again” didn't come up among the last three things I wanted to ask. Actually, isn't there also a desire to stay there?

For example, I think it's enough to set a break of “a few years,” and go out to the city once for various reasons. Otherwise, we won't be able to see what to do with the depopulated local area.
Once you experience both the point of “not being able to get through with hope” and the point of “not being envious of others,” I think they will be resolved in no time.

You won't know if the city's water suits you until you go, but either way, nothing starts if you don't go there.
If parents and children really want to do it, they will surely support them. That's what love is.

You can do filial piety even when you're away. If you're making a big decision to go to the city, don't forget that.　

My hometown is also a depopulated, underpopulated and underpopulated rural area.

When I was a student, I got a general job, and I had an ambition to test how far I could go.
If you aim to make a lot of money, it would be far more profitable to move your base to a “moderate countryside” where you can drive to the center of Tokyo and Nagoya, where the market price is high, and get a job in partnership with a funeral home.

But I have a parishioner who has been guarding the temple with me for hundreds of years before I was born. Fortunately or unluckily, I didn't grow up to be a person who betrayed that parishioner, and I have such pride in myself. If the ship called Hometown sinks, they will leave the ship as the last person like the old captain, or they will share their fate depending on their age at that time.

So I'm probably half forced and half my own will.

What to do on top of that?
① Don't be pessimistic. It is precisely because we are pessimistic that we can move to resolve it somehow. No, it's quite difficult to move, but at least you can stay without disturbing people who move. To put it bluntly, people who hold back people who are trying to do something are definitely people who turn their eyes away from reality and lack a sense of crisis. The higher the percentage of such people, the more depopulated areas become a vicious cycle, and they simply throw debt on young people. People who can be pessimistic are healthier.

② Well, that's probably a relationship. I wasn't born in a temple just because I wanted to be born. When I was in high school, I really hated career guidance time, so I wrote “I don't have the freedom to choose a career” on a paper asking me to write my dreams for the future and submitted it.
But in the end, it was just a “preconceived notion that if you can't do what you want, you'll definitely be unhappy.” This is what the Buddha said. “This world doesn't turn out the way we want it to be. People who accept the fact that things don't turn out the way they want them to, will leave suffering. But as long as you keep trying to do what you want, you won't be able to break out of the cycle of suffering.”

③ Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Let's know that we “don't go the way we want” no matter where and what we do due to our habit of focusing on advantages and disadvantages. Please see my answer here due to character limits.
https://hasunoha.jp/questions/20169

It seems like I'm writing something contradictory in ① and ②③, but I'm getting angry because I have such opposite vector thoughts without contradicting them.