I do wonder why the work from home revolution hasn't produced a big population of people willing to live in the middle of nowhere. Is it because the people able to WFH were already urbanites not willing to live anywhere they can't walk to a Starbucks?
Have you been to the middle of nowhere? It's not glamorous and has a lot of downsides including regressive politics, shitty health care, crappy food options, no nightlife other than the bar that all the local townies drink in before going home to drunkenly beat and abuse their wives etc.
So yea, not surprised folks are signing up in droves to go live in Middle of Nowhere America.
To work from home, you still need quality internet. The further out you get from the city, the worse the quality tend to be.
No sane ISP is going to invest in fiber connections to "middle of nowhere". ISPs invest in areas where the money is likely to be in.
That's not even including the other challenges that the other person wrote; sparse areas tend to have less investments in their infrastructure as well.
People live closer to the city for all sorts of reasons; health cares systems are better, more public infrastructure in place (think cops, libraries, public transportation, etc).
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