“…J. C. Bureau and L. P. Mahé (2009) argue that vitality is the ability of rural residents to have access to an acceptable level of social services package. How rural dwellers deal with social, economic changes, transforming rural life depends not only on delivered services, amenities, spatial characteristics, economic structure and performance, but also and essentially on rural residents -one of the rural vitality element (Turcanu, 2012), the social portrait of them, their characteristics, human capital (Barkley, 2004), housing and living conditions (Crull, 2000;Hawks, 2000).…”