4 ms·
> All of this is dependent on highways and new roads, new electrical, water, and sewage infrastructure. If you're 20 miles outside a town, you almost certainly
by Syonyk 4y ago
> All of this is dependent on highways and new roads, new electrical, water, and sewage infrastructure.
If you're 20 miles outside a town, you almost certainly have electrical service, but are on a well and septic system. City water and sewer doesn't make sense at those sort of densities. You also probably have the land to easily put a nice ground mount PV array in, and grow a good bit of your own food, should you care to.
- themitigating 4y agoI don't think this is the case for suburbs, at least for water. Septic tanks are used I think
- Syonyk 4y agoSuburbs aren't generally described as the "sticks." That would be exurbs or lower. A typical suburban subdivision will have city water and sewage, though depending on the details, you might have a couple community wells and individual septic fields (or a link to city sewage).
- rootusrootus 4y agoSuburbs are often on city utilities. And they pay for the infrastructure. You won't generally find septic systems on properties under about an acre. Not that it never happens, obviously, but a septic field has geographic requirements that means you won't often see it in a suburban neighborhood.
- rascul 4y agoIt depends. We have a lot of small water coops around here and water lines ran nearly everywhere a road goes, even if the nearest city is 50 miles away.