if there's a handrail, it's not rural.
rural = untouched by stupid laws like "oh my god someone might fall down these stairs lets put a rail by it, maybe public schooling didn't teach them not to be clumsy on stairs, or maybe some fatasses can lean on it when theyre outta breath, but no pedestrian will actually touch the rail cause its got STDs on it, so then we'll put skatestops on it, and thus no one can have fun on it unless they file or hacksaw that shit off".
you know darwin is rolling in his grave over "fall protection laws"