In the US people can and do choose to live many, many miles from the nearest infrastructure in remote areas, especially in the western US. I used to have a plac

In the US people can and do choose to live many, many miles from the nearest infrastructure in remote areas, especially in the western US. I used to have a place in the mountains of Nevada originally occupied since the 19th century that was 15 miles from the nearest utility service. Many of the remaining off-the-grid places are like this and would require creating a new right-of-way across private and government lands as there are no formal roads to many of these places. The taxpayer cost would be astronomical relative to the benefit. (The established "roads" everyone uses are informal common law trails which don't exist as far as the government is concerned.)