Same can go for electricity, water (if there is no local enough source of good water), as well as transportation infrastructure, mobile network coverage, and ac

Same can go for electricity, water (if there is no local enough source of good water), as well as transportation infrastructure, mobile network coverage, and access to goods. I guess the main question is, does it make sense for a lot of such places to be abandoned, just because they will never be able to compete with cities in terms of cost due to distance and being smaller markets?