Yea but electricity is a necessity.
Water, you can drill a well. Sewers you can get a septic tank, gas you can get a big propane tank.
I think telephone is required to be provided but internet is really not a necessity.
Eventually several things are going to happen...
1) with the cost of copper going up and the cost of fiber optics going down its not going to make any sense to replace copper telephone lines with copper.
As the telephone infrastructure gets upgraded, high speed internet comes along with it.
2) as cell phones become more and more popular, more cell towers get built and 4G LTE becomes available everywhere.
3) as 4g LTE Is rolled out, the cost of data goes down and eventually the data caps get raised
I have to disagree. Every company tells you they do that at the website. Even employers want resume submission ON-LINE ONLY, not snail mail (I don't think the want the paper clutter, as well). It's as if Snail Mail or the just yesterday way of doing things had never existed. Even getting applications, one is always directed to the website, and no, they do not know what to say or do if you respond that you don't have access to the internet. Oh, wait, they do say to go to the public library or use a friend or family's internet connection. Otherwise, you are SOL. I've had family come to me DESPERATE to use my internet access for all manner of things. Also, the ONLY way a potential landlord would accept my brother and his wife's credit reports was in ELECTRONIC FORM and it had to be E-MAILED to them. My poor bother had to come use my scanner/software for other paperwork that would only be accepted in ELECTRONIC form--over a hundred pages of data. That's the way it is here in the big city. I do understand things move far more slowly in rural America, as I do have loved ones in rural USA and visit them, and it's easier to be in the 20th century there, but NOT HERE. One had better have internet access or you are OUT and can't get a whole lot of things.
The attitude one gets if you offer that you have no internet access is like how can one NOT have a phone (yes, you are expected to have at least a cell phone) or mailing address. Even our government programs to employ people have to provide an email address, a telephone number and computers with access to internet for those on programs looking for work because that is about the ONLY way one is ever going to get a job. Today, it is assumed everybody has access to the internet and the companies we all deal with have set things up for JUST that. They prefer dealing with data in digital form, not paper.
Our gadgets no longer come with instruction books. We are, instead, told to go to the website and download it. Oh, and if you want that gadget to work properly, you had better have internet access to update the firmware to fix the bugs on it. It also reduces costs for them to go all internet/Web, as well.
"Why should we print those costly owners manuals when EVERYONE has the internet to download it," they say at corporate meetings. No, they don't PRINT ANY manuals. You keep getting told to go to the website.
"It's ALL there."
I'm glad the planet on which you live does things in far more simple times way, and you can get along without internet access, and, presumably, an automobile--such a frill cars are as they only increase your chance at employment and earning power as employers LOVE that you don't have to depend upon rural public transportation;
surely a steed will do for you--but for the rest of us living in the 21st century. Internet access IS a necessity--to whatever degree, but still a necessity at many points--whether we have it our selves or
beg others to please let us use their PC and internet connection--and scanner and printer and fax--so I can get a job or an apartment, please!
