  Crowd work has the potential of helping the financial recovery of regions
traditionally plagued by a lack of economic opportunities, e.g., rural areas.
However, we currently have limited information about the challenges facing
crowd work-ers from rural and super rural areas as they struggle to make a
living through crowd work sites. This paper examines the challenges and
advantages of rural and super rural AmazonMechanical Turk (MTurk) crowd workers
and contrasts them with those of workers from urban areas. Based on a survey
of421 crowd workers from differing geographic regions in theU.S., we identified
how across regions, people struggled with being onboarded into crowd work. We
uncovered that despite the inequalities and barriers, rural workers tended to
be striving more in micro-tasking than their urban counterparts. We also
identified cultural traits, relating to time dimension and individualism, that
offer us an insight into crowd workers and the necessary qualities for them to
succeed on gig platforms. We finish by providing design implications based on
our findings to create more inclusive crowd work platforms and tools
