We are seeing the opposite people from the urban areas are moving
farther and farther out. They mostly aren't keeping the 40+ year old
houses just buying the land and building new ones. Then someone from out
of state buys a house moves in with the plan of working from home and is
dumbfounded that they can't git gigabit+ internet for $30 a month.
On 8/23/25 11:13 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
In some areas we serve where houses are a mile apart and the nearest
town with a Walmart is 15 miles away, people tell me that when a
homeowner dies (many are in their 70’s and 80’s), they won’t even list
the house because nobody wants to live in the middle of nowhere. It
will be abandoned, or torn down to and turned back into farmland. We
no longer have small family farms with the farm family living in a
house on the land, because you need to farm so many acres to make a
profit. If a farmhouse is near a town, it may become a rental house,
but not when it’s 10 miles from the nearest town or school.
But I expect some company will be awarded $15K+ each to pass these
houses with fiber. If it takes 4 years to complete, the house might
not even be occupied by then, and in any case, the 80 year old
occupant probably doesn’t care if they have gigabit Internet.
So will fiber make these houses suddenly desirable, and work from home
people will move there from the cities, towns and suburbs? Reviving
these rural areas where the younger generation has moved away? I
guess that’s the vision, I’m not sure I buy it. Well and septic and
propane, quarter mile driveway to plow in winter, but blazing fast
Internet, and you can have horses and chickens.
Will they start building subdivisions out there once fiber is
available? I’m not buying it. Am I wrong?
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