It's not that rural. It's close enough there are still tons of commuters that go into the city, Rockland county, North Jersey or Westchester for work, but it's lower cost of housing.
Eg, many FDNY/NYPD guys live up there.
Buses of foreign shoppers come up from NYC to shop at Woodbury Commons the other town over in Monroe.
It should be noted, Chester is just a town over from Kiryas Joel. I know we've had other threads her about it, but cliffs are it's a sprawling Ultra-orthodox community that been trying to further expand for years. It's also the largest consumer of welfare in the United States (amongst many other controversies.)
Here is another one, where they sued the state for funds to build a park, then built it gender segregation strictly enforced, color coded playground equipment and everything. Like a little slice of the West Bank in the USA.
So no, lots of reasons you wouldn't want that creeping into your town when you wanted to live in America.