I was living in a metro area before bad tinnitus hit and already hated it and wanted to move back to the woods.
When tinnitus got real bad in 2010, I had the presence of mind to recognize that I was already working in a field that I could use to become a remote worker, if I played my cards right.
I spent 2010-2015 suffering a lot, trying every treatment under the sun, and slowly trying to achieve "escape velocity" from the city. During this time I managed to go into normal-volume HVAC-and-fire-alarm having offices nearly every day, 40-50 hours a week. It wasn't fun.
In late 2015 I had gotten permission to become a remote worker; in fall of 2016 we moved to rural Vermont. In fall of 2017 we bought a house that is uniquely positioned to be on top of a small mountain, dead center of 5 mile grid for state roads (so no state road noise that doesn't come through minimum 2.5 miles of trees), with gigabit internet.
Within two years of moving to a much quieter place, I was handling my condition much better, and professionally things were pretty fine, but my tinnitus was still enough of a drag on my family life, and I had put so much effort into learning how helpful meditation / yoga is, but also where the limits of that seem to be, that I elected to go back on benzos, drugs I had been on ~a decade plus ago for a number of years. I wouldn't recommend that path if you can avoid it. I will say that since being on benzos I've done two job switches under stressful circumstances, taking on more responsibility in each case. I am not confident that I would have risen to the challenges involved in both cases if medication wasn't a crutch that was making my broken leg (ears) easier to hobble around with.
I'd say I basically enjoy life most of the time, at this point, given my current state of disability and treatment.