I might ask my sister.
She lives in Illinois, and her husband's family owned a 3,000 acre farm
back when they were pups. He's passed away, but I was under the impression
that his brothers and sisters maintained the farm, and I presumed their
children as well. My sister's kids went completely away from farming.
But I dunno.
He had sold (or given up?) his interest in the farm, and went to work for
Caterpillar, where he stayed until he retired.
So I have no clue what happened to their farm, but at that acreage, it's
got to be close to 5 square miles.
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> 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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