Building a Home in a Rural Area – Add This to Your Planning
Where will you build? If a rural area has your heart, and if you’re at all addicted to television or the internet, you need to plan ahead.
Here in the woods, where I live, there is no such thing as cable. There is also no such thing as fiber optic cable for the telephone.
The location is perfect – we have privacy, mountain and water views, and plenty of wildlife to observe. I love it and wouldn’t consider living anywhere else.
But… the phone lines are 30+ years old. Well, most of them are that old. There is that 1,200 foot section of new line that’s currently hanging on a fence, except for where it’s laying on top of the ground.
When I asked the repairman about the possibility of getting fiber optic he laughed out loud. He told me I’d be darned lucky to get a new copper line. With a low population density, the phone company isn’t at all concerned about upgrading service to our neighborhood.