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Wow that sounds hard. Have you ever considered founding a utilities company yourself and lay those lines for you and your neighbors? I have no idea how easy or
by manmal 9y ago
Wow that sounds hard. Have you ever considered founding a utilities company yourself and lay those lines for you and your neighbors? I have no idea how easy or hard that would have been.
- jacobush 9y agoHe was a kid when he lived there...
- sgt101 9y agoYou need access to capital to do that, and if you have access to capital you probably aren't in a place that considers 2 cows as wealthy.
- niij 9y agoIn this context, I don't believe "city slickers" implies wealth. In a rural community, having large amounts of land is wealth, because it can be used to support more livestock.
- Ensorceled 9y agoThey were "city slickers" because they only had two cows (or, more likely, only had enough land for two) where as everybody else had many, many more. City slicker isn't an insult that means "rich" by the way, it means from the city and hence not willing do a hard day's work, dresses too nice and is not trustworthy.
- birdman3131 9y agoFor us it was not really an insult. It was poking fun at us but it was not meant in a bad way. Not to say it could not be meant as one though.
- Ensorceled 9y agoI know what you mean, my family calls me a city slicker and that's how they intend it as well. I hope ...
- LeifCarrotson 9y agoUtilities are really expensive in a place like that. It is fairly easy to run a utility when you average 100 feet between each customer, and when you can have one hub station that covers a 1-mile radius and serves 5,000 people. It's really hard when the line from one house to the next costs a year's subscription fees, and one hub covers 50 people. This is why fiber is currently only common in the cities right now. Costs haven't come down enough for it to get to suburban locations, much less rural.