Comcast told me they'd be able to add my house to their service - no big deal, we promise - until I actually bought the place and called their bluff. New story

Comcast told me they'd be able to add my house to their service - no big deal, we promise - until I actually bought the place and called their bluff. New story is that they want $500 for a site survey. And no word on whether it'd be possible to run service. If it is, I get to pay for the wire to buy the privilege of paying them for service. And I wouldn't own the wire. Others a few blocks away were quoted $13k per home. High enough, I thought, to make it obviously-stupid to pay for a survey. Three out of five of my neighbors have Comcast gigabit service. I can get AT&T DSL. It's not cheap; sticker is $50/mo, and it has more asterisks than a mail-in-rebate form. It's not fast; 20 mbps download max. Who-knows-what upload. So why shouldn't that be included as a data point? It's my only wired option, despite decades of subsidies towards universal service. Instead I opted for a 4G modem, but now I don't have a public IP address. Didn't expect that, and it's honestly pretty annoying to be unable to ssh home. I just moved in, and this weekend will be getting set up on some hosted VM to work around this shortcoming. I work for Alphabet in Mountain View. I live less than five miles from my office. You'd think I'd be able to do better.