@chronically_crazy@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world • 1 year agoWould you live in a rural area?message-square140fedilinkarrow-up1158arrow-down15file-text
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minus-square@archonet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish13•1 year agoContingent on fiber internet and having a four-wheeel-drive vehicle, yes. Snow’s a bitch and so is DSL. Other than that, the solitude would be rad.
minus-square@havokdj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•1 year agoThe DSL thing is a bit of a myth nowadays. The rural area around where I live has better internet than the city.
minus-square@Redditiscancer789@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish4•1 year agoThen you live in a pretty recently upgraded area. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184726217/rural-states-likely-to-benefit-the-most-from-funds-to-improve-broadband-access
minus-square@havokdj@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•1 year agoI have a feeling the reason the internet is so good in MS is because they are more concerned with doing literally anything else besides giving us drinkable tap water.
minus-square@infinipurple@lemm.eelinkfedilink-1•1 year agoAnd, you know, there’s a whole planet that exists outside of the US…
minus-square@Redditiscancer789@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoJust like the areas that exist outside your little rural area. It’s almost like either of us shouldn’t make blanket statements.
minus-square@infinipurple@lemm.eelinkfedilink1•1 year agoExcept that acknowledging that the world exists doesn’t constitute a blanket statement…
minus-square@luckyhunter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink-4•1 year agoI have starlink. Better internet than I ever had in town. We should be getting fiber any day now too.
Contingent on fiber internet and having a four-wheeel-drive vehicle, yes.
Snow’s a bitch and so is DSL. Other than that, the solitude would be rad.
The DSL thing is a bit of a myth nowadays. The rural area around where I live has better internet than the city.
Then you live in a pretty recently upgraded area. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/28/1184726217/rural-states-likely-to-benefit-the-most-from-funds-to-improve-broadband-access
I have a feeling the reason the internet is so good in MS is because they are more concerned with doing literally anything else besides giving us drinkable tap water.
And, you know, there’s a whole planet that exists outside of the US…
Just like the areas that exist outside your little rural area. It’s almost like either of us shouldn’t make blanket statements.
Except that acknowledging that the world exists doesn’t constitute a blanket statement…
I have starlink. Better internet than I ever had in town. We should be getting fiber any day now too.