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I have been to Deadhorse AK, it is a pretty cool oil rig town probably producing billions dollars worth of oil each year, more than many US towns. So Please don
by rhuru 3y ago
I have been to Deadhorse AK, it is a pretty cool oil rig town probably producing billions dollars worth of oil each year, more than many US towns. So Please dont compare it with rural areas.
Deadhorse also has a fully functioning commercial airport with Alaska Air flights that are "free" for the workers there.
- xcdzvyn 3y agoYour comment gives me an odd vibe that seems to imply a towns "worth" equates to its GDP
- rhuru 3y agoWorth is a subjective concept, Yosemite might have negative GDP but might be worth very high value for many of us due to its natural beauty. We are talking here about cellphone towers, availability of good infra will mostly dependent on GDP of that region.
- daemoens 3y agoThat's not what he said, though. It's an explanation for why a specific rural town would have 4G while others don't.
- jonhohle 3y agoIt obviously doesn’t, but GDP roughly correlates to the profitability of expanding a network to that area. As others have mentioned, there are many awesome, very remote areas that would never be economically viable to provide cell coverage.
- serf 3y ago>Deadhorse also has a fully functioning commercial airport with Alaska Air flights that are "free" for the workers there. neat, I didn't realize the US had anything like 'company towns' anymore, hopefully they avoid the paternalism stuff that ruined company towns in the previous centuries.
- landemva 3y agoThere is a multi-year waiting list to live in this company town near a large copper pit and mill in Arizona. https://www.morencitown.com/residents#housing https://www.morencitown.com/residents#housing
- rhuru 3y agoDeadhorse is owned by BP and every tourist needs to show ID to enter. It has fancy hotels with free buffets inside, lot of big and tough machines and even tougher people. Lots of old people to manning businesses inside.