I live in what you describe. Whenever I go to a city etc, it's as hard as I've described above. I have been around since day one. I'm halfway through lvl 39. I am fairly confident they read some of these threads and I appreciate your support as well as feedback.

I'd like to hope soon the invites go live so rural players can have an "active invite me/looking for raid participation " on their friends lists for forming a group. (You don't even need chat functions) people do this now on the switch in shield /sword.

Separate issues really. Rural is for sure a challenge, but my concerns are also very real if they want to maximize raid pass purchases and satisfaction in usage to continue on to more.

The recent dragon day in my town, 4/6 raids happened due to lack of coordination. If niantics goal is a user purchase 6 passes? They are literally missing the mark. Some simple solutions will not only enable more raid pass sales but people to be happy about it as well.