I also agree that people living in the countryside would be better off at the beginning.
However, things wouldn't be rosy for them neither. For instance:
Originally posted by FiltH
Your wife is pregnant. Can you deliver the baby?
Well, unless you're a trained nurse or doc with the adequate gear, there aren't much things you can do if things go wrong... You would have to rely almost exclusively on Mother Nature.
The only help you can bring is garotting twice the ombilical cord after the delivery then cutting between the ties (wait for too long and all the baby's blood will flow back into the mother's body)...
Then you'd have to deal with the child diseases. Youth mortality would go back to pre 1900 years.