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Rural Towns Are Aging, Cash-Strapped and in Desperate Need of Workers (www.wsj.com)

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With younger labor in short supply, aging workers often find themselves pulling double—or triple—duty to keep towns afloat

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Duh: Rural towns usually have terrible Internet. Who would want to live with that every day‽

That, and they're also full of MAGA-type Republicans that hate anyone and everyone who isn't exactly like them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

With the way rural voters get disproportionate voting power its insane that rural broadband isn't everywhere. Shows how money interests take over rural interests in that party

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Duh: Rural towns usually have terrible Internet. Who would want to live with that every day‽

In my experience this isn't always the case. A small town I lived in once had gigabit for $80/month whereas the city I lived in before that had 250mbps internet for something absurd like $270/month and it even had a bandwidth cap.

Right now I live in the middle of nowhere and the fastest thing available is 100mbps but it's only $50/month. I probably have a better internet situation than most people at least in terms of what I'm getting for the price.

I think some small internet companies just didn't get the memo on enshitification.

[–] Anticorp 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I live in a very small town, and I have 1.5 Gbps internet, and haven't met a single trumper.