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Techs?

Some people like living in the sticks.

I would live in the sticks, if I could find work there. If I were a telcom/network tech I would love to live someplace like this.

My home was rural when we moved there. The housing boom fixed that. Now, instead of having 1000 or so "fellow townfolk" I have 10,500 self important jerks who seem to think giving you the finger is the way to say howdy neighbor.
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reply to packetpusher
Sometimes they're good, sometimes they're not.

Does living in a small town automatically mean a person is an idiot?

reply to packetpusher
It means the talent pool is smaller. I'd love to live out a bit in the country. Housing is cheaper, it usually the infrastructure that prevents people from moving there. If more small towns developed their infrastructure in this fashion I think there'd be even more of a migration to the sticks.

reply to Karl Bode
I live in what use to be considered the sticks a long time ago. You have a nice quiet atmosphere without all the hustle of city life. Many tech people like myself commutes to the city from the sticks. The town I live in has excellent schools compared to city schools.

As I said before, if the Telco's or the cable companies refuse to wire a town cause it's not in there best interests, then the town should have other alternatives left to them.

reply to Karl Bode
I agree with you karl because you live in a small town does not make you an idiot. I think it makes alot of sence most of the times cost of living is less, traffic is less, noise is less, I like having more than 10 feet between me and my neighbor. Funny thing is one of my co-workers did not want to move to a small town area and chose to live in "the place to be" area due to the fact it is so close to work and the status. Turns out I get about the same house for about 30-40% cheaper and my drive is 5 mins less than his I still chuckle about that one. Still only takes me 22 mins to get to work with traffic to the downtown area. Yay suburbs lol.

This country, particularly its urban and super suburban residents, have a fear of rural America. Note the endless slasher flick where some urbanite winds up in a place with a lot of trees and gets hacked apart.

But bringing fiber to these towns, blended with telecommuting, will hopefully disperse some of the population and industry in the country. I believe rural America will be the place to be over the next 20 years.

You may well be right Karl.
I moved closer to the city because it was the only place I could both afford and find a job in. I seriously considered a move to far western Maryland (Allegany county) or West Virginia (Mineral county) when I had a couple potential job offers out there. They didn't quite pan out, but I for one would be intrigued by moving to a very rural area if I could still have a solid, well-paying, reliable tech job.

Let's see what happens.
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reply to shoan
Cost of living (as you mentioned) is another thing a lot of people overlook when taking rural living into consideration. Just about (not everything) is cheaper. Houses, car insurance, shorter commute if you work local. Often, taxes are lower.

And given the mail order-ability of everything, living out of the way is a lot easier than it used to be.

I think I'm one step closer to selling my "suburban" house and moving outward.

It was what my parents did when they were my age....
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Never ask what sort of a computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him? -Tom Clancy

well in our area the property taxes are about half what they are in the neighboring county from the areas that I was looking at. I remember seeing something on one of those primetime type news shows of it was either kansas or nebraska that some company pulled their outsourcing from overseas and "out sourced" it to rural america corn field land. They wired their company up and got off cheaper by keeping it in the country and offering the jobs to lower cost of living areas. I also see rural america becoming a potential boom. A lot of small towns are expanding county airports and becoming shipping hubs which pulls the flight traffic out of urban areas and makes it quicker to get the trucks rolling out to ship things. A lot of people discount what broadband can do for businesses. If you take the direction that the gaming industry is going with digital downloads and online content driving their next generation of gaming consoles. They are going to miss out on a HUGE chunk of money due to people not being HSI served. I know for a fact Sony online entertainment (SOE) has lost about $250 dollars a year from me alone since I have such a hard time playing online with dial up. The numbers were from the yearly subscription fees and the adventure packs i was buying before I moved. not counting the expansions that are 30-40 dollars each. Then there is Blizzard that has lost about $180 dollars a year also due to lack of HSI. Then there is tons of advertising that is not funneled to me since I can not visit many of the increasing HSI friendly websites. Take for instance a lot of people will not see the webisode bridge for battlestar galatica between season 2 and 3 due to dial up. I sometimes wonder why companies don't put more of a heavy lean on the telco's and cable companies to deploy to un served areas which is causing them to lose out on potential revenue. I can guarantee that I would be putting at least $1000 of my disposable money out there to companies a year if I was served by anything other than 24.4 k dial up don't say satellite my area is not accepting anymore subscribers at this time. I know I don't use iTunes due to the dial up. Sorry for long post

reply to Karl Bode
only if your from texas and in the whitehouse,
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reply to packetpusher
Then, after the migration, the "sticks" are no longer the sticks".