Not even that really, you just don’t get outside communication. That type of area is getting rarer (especially after satellite TV and internet) but in some places, like for example some parts of backwoods Louisiana where I grew up, you were really just cut off. You were lucky to have a phone line. We would drive most of an hour to town to get a bunch of blockbuster tapes to keep us entertained during the week.
Some of those places have been a bit modernized, but in a lot of areas like that across the southern and midwest USA I would not be at all surprised to hear that satellite TV and internet are still the only options available.
You’re lucky you get any channels besides Fox News. Keep complaining and you’ll go back to dialup ;) ;) ;)
You straight up don’t even get dial-up in some of these parts
Just tin cans and string?
Not even that really, you just don’t get outside communication. That type of area is getting rarer (especially after satellite TV and internet) but in some places, like for example some parts of backwoods Louisiana where I grew up, you were really just cut off. You were lucky to have a phone line. We would drive most of an hour to town to get a bunch of blockbuster tapes to keep us entertained during the week.
Some of those places have been a bit modernized, but in a lot of areas like that across the southern and midwest USA I would not be at all surprised to hear that satellite TV and internet are still the only options available.
They probably don’t even know what’s going on 100 miles away from them. That…sounds wonderful.