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Yes, this.  I used to think about my home town in flyover country -- nice, relaxing, midwestern college town.  Recently I've had to do business there to settle some affairs.  First it's quite different than here.  There's so much less national news, access to information.  [/quote]

LOL. I'm sorry, does the internet not exist in your flyover hometown? What an absurd statement.[/quote]

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Umm you think its a joke but some areas of the country have really bad infrastructure, little-to-no private service, and lack basic amenities.

I have friend who lives about 1 1/2 hours outside of Birmingham, AL. Her entire area only gets one option for cable & internet service - AT&T. You think that's not bad - it isn't. The issue is that the company knows that and service is incredibly sloppy as a result. Her cable line was severed two months ago and it took them 9 days to fix it. Her mbps (internet speed) is 11.2 - you know the thing you use to load news sites, watch netflix, game on occasion. The average in Washington, D.C. is 19.5 mbps. She's lucky though. Neighbors a few miles west her don't have internet at all and zero broadband access.

Another friend is a teacher in rural Louisiana. This it the town water that comes out of her faucet at least twice a week. So don't laugh and say that life in flyover country is absolutely the same as what its like in a city like D.C. It's not a joke, its not funny, its criminal.

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