[btrautsc]

You could have this today basically in any home in Chattanooga, TN.

I think the most recent price is $68.99/ mo. 10gig is $299

It's a big county. You can live downtown. Suburban. Or quite rural all within access to the 'smart grid' / gig.

[ChuckMcM]

So 10g would be $18,000 for 5 years of service. Less for 1G of course.

There were people I knew who moved to Kansas when Google installed fiber there because they wanted a lower cost of living and could work from anywhere if they had good internet service.

If someone wants a decent side hustle a service for finding places to live that have 1G+ internet + enough amenities for your typical engineering type might make decent bank with referral fees. Collecting all that into one location.

[znpy]

Governors underestimate the importance of internet connectivity in any area.

Making sure there's FTTH at at least 1gbps down / 200mbps up is key.

15k to move in a depressed area sounds like a dumb bribe attempt to me.

[danenania]

Sounds like Nomad List: https://nomadlist.com/

[gh02t]

As someone who recently (-ish) moved to Oak Ridge, TN where we still have shitty Comcast and AT&T service I really wish we had what Chattanooga has. I love the area, but I do not love the internet service providers I have to choose from.

[SteveGerencser]

I live at the other end of the state outside of Lexington TN and would gladly suffer Comcast and AT&T rather than TDS and their glitchy DSL service.

[gh02t]

Very true, I could have it much worse. Honestly Comcast isn't that bad, but I deeply resent their ridiculous bandwidth cap when their service is so expensive.

[echelon]

> Chattanooga, TN.

Such an awesome city, too. It's close to Atlanta and Charlotte, I just wish they'd fund the high speed rail network meant to connect the three cities.

[btrautsc]

I got really into this idea a few years ago.

It still gets floated from time to time (I recently saw high speed rail maps making the rounds).

IF/ when ATL > Chattanooga > Nashville are connected by a leg, it will absolutely change the region.

I have "heard" - completely so-and-so said - that much of the needed infrastructure exists. The key is repurposing existing rail lines and getting right of way.

I think there was a study commissioned that laid out the whole plan for a (3-5 stop) between downtown ATL and Nashville with a stop in Chattanooga.

[austincheney]

How could you possibly make any use of 10g at your house? I guess you could run a web hosting business.

[kristopolous]

I wonder how many customers actually do the networking on their end to make sure they aren't the bottleneck (10g ports/proper cabling and switches) versus people who just think "it's a bigger number and I have the cash... Sure"

[AdrianB1]

Residential Internet almost never guarantees speed to the Internet backbone, it is just advertising the Ethernet link speed. There are subscriptions with guaranteed performance, but at a different price.

My home Internet connections are 1 Gbps and 300 Mbps (2 links from 2 providers, I work from home and I need the uptime) for less than $10 each, but the transfer speeds are close to these numbers only for local servers, getting out of the country is about half these speeds.