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by DanBC
4547 days ago
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You've described a few small cities plus New York. London has that kind of connectivity if you're prepared to pay - at which point the cost savings of chromebook start to fail. Especially with the increased uk cost of the device. |
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LOL no, typical neighborhood in the 2nd richest suburb of a boring former top 30 midwestern urban center about 20 miles from "downtown", nearby a really freaking huge freshwater lake. Everything around me was built around 1960, the modern exurbs and mcmansions are all 5 to 10 miles further out so I guess you'd call this an inner-ring suburb. My commute length is about in the middle of my coworkers commute lengths. This is Extremely stereotypical suburbia at least in the midwest USA. 100K people, basically no real crime, the crime blotter is all "drunk idiot did this" and "drunk idiot got into fight" type stuff. One rare bright spot is our local HS always makes it thru regionals and into state at the Academic Decathlon, always every year no exceptions, and when I was on the team we made 4th at state, but once in awhile the local H.S. places pretty high at nationals, I guess the year I was on the team I must have dragged them down (LOL). They're not going to be filming a reunion episode of Friends or any other trendy urban stuff here any time soon, we don't have a Tesla dealership or anything like that. There is an Apple store but its 10 miles away. We only got a frozen yogurt store last summer, we didn't even have cupcake stores until after they already peaked on the coasts, its just not that trendy of an area. So a very nice area, but hardly the urban paradise SV is supposed to be, or all of CA is supposed to be, or pretty much anywhere on the coasts. We're referred to as flyover country, made fun of a lot. The nearest smart car dealership is 30 miles away but I don't know if they're even still cool. The closest IKEA is like 100 miles away, no kidding. We have a symphony orchestra that no one attends (well, far under 1% of population) so unsure if thats culturally good or bad. And no, our symphony does not play dueling banjos or whatever just because we're well over 1000 miles from any ocean coast. Nor do all our summer vacations look like "Deliverance" movie although sometimes it gets kinda iffy. TLDR is on average its a pretty typical boring suburb, some things a little better, some a little worse.
I'm more a tea drinker than coffee, but I've been given the impression for about a decade its illegal or something to sell coffee without free wifi.
Oh and I forgot the local McDonalds about 1.5 miles away has free wifi, I don't eat that kind of "food", but if I needed wifi I'd do what I have to do to get it, including eating a big mac or whatever.