Absolutely. You are right about questions morality being an important element of JA's attitude to town versus country life. I would think that she agreed with some lines on the subject by Cowper (said to be her favourite moral poet):

God made the country, and man made the town:
What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts
That can alone make sweet the bitter draught
That life holds out to all, should most abound
And least be threaten’d in the fields and groves?
(William Cowper; 'The Task', Book 1.)

I did wonder about including the 'morality' issues in my post. But having written at unseemly length about population and pollution, I felt I had delighted you all long enough.

There's an interesting discussion we might have about Austen's own perspective on the town/country issue, and how that played out in her novels, but I'm not sure that L&T is the right board for it. To cover all the bases would mean drawing on her letters and the novels as well as L&T type material. Would Austenuations be the best place?

(Personally I'd rather defer such a discussion until after new Year, because the holiday season places so many unusual demands on our time.)