Rural areas used to be emptier. But so many people move out to the country, or are into nature sports or hunting and gathering, that the forests have more traffic. And now e-bikes.

The village is also 4 times larger than in the 80s, after all, and the city bus comes out here, now. 

 Some American national parks are facing problems with overcrowding.  Not what you'd expect, but there it is. 

 There actually aren't as many truly physically isolated places, anymore, except in inhospitable areas. Just thinly-populated places.

But Venice is also thinly-populated, in a way, if you go by residents per square km.