Not to mention that in many the rural areas every born, outhouse, chicken co-op and garage has an address. And these fiber companies are getting paid to run fiber to them or at least cover them.
Dave On Sat, Aug 23, 2025, 12:15 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > In some areas we serve where houses are a mile apart and the nearest town > with a Walmart is 15 miles away, people tell me that when a homeowner dies > (many are in their 70’s and 80’s), they won’t even list the house because > nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere. It will be abandoned, or > torn down to and turned back into farmland. We no longer have small family > farms with the farm family living in a house on the land, because you need > to farm so many acres to make a profit. If a farmhouse is near a town, it > may become a rental house, but not when it’s 10 miles from the nearest town > or school. > > > > But I expect some company will be awarded $15K+ each to pass these houses > with fiber. If it takes 4 years to complete, the house might not even be > occupied by then, and in any case, the 80 year old occupant probably > doesn’t care if they have gigabit Internet. > > > > So will fiber make these houses suddenly desirable, and work from home > people will move there from the cities, towns and suburbs? Reviving these > rural areas where the younger generation has moved away? I guess that’s > the vision, I’m not sure I buy it. Well and septic and propane, quarter > mile driveway to plow in winter, but blazing fast Internet, and you can > have horses and chickens. > > > > Will they start building subdivisions out there once fiber is available? > I’m not buying it. Am I wrong? > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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