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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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Um, I had to work from a very small town in BFE Washington (state) for a while and got absolutely ZERO cell service.  And you know what?  The internet worked perfectly fine.

Maybe some areas have particular problems with the internet but I am not buying this whole "I had to move to DC to get wifi" BS.  Please.  The vast majority of the country has wifi, so don't try to feel superior because you weren't checking the news when you lived in Nebraska. [/quote]

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