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Re:7 Cheap Places in the U.S. With Fiber Optic Internet by Fjolsvith on Thursday September 07, 2017 @06:49AM (#15190570)
Northwestern Kansas has fiberoptic to nearly all the homes in nearly all of the small towns. Nextech (formerly Ruraltel) filed for and received a $280 million block grant from a rider on the hurricane Katrina relief bill to run fiber to all the communities in NW Kansas. They opted to actually lay the cable (I know, can you believe it?) rather than blow the money on dividends.

Here in the small (300 population) town I live in, we have a post office and gas station. We do have a bar but its only open Friday nights for drinking and weekday mornings for coffee. You can buy half a city block for $10,000 right now. We have gigabit internet in my home that doesn't have any lag at all and have had it for 6 years now.

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Re:7 Cheap Places in the U.S. With Fiber Optic Internet by Fjolsvith on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:01AM (#15190636)
To put in perspective the cost of living here, my parents have three rental homes for income. They rent each home out for $350 a month.

My wife bought our home back in 2007 for $10,000. We have a 1250 sqft modular home with detached 2-car garage, on a 100x100 ft lot on a street corner.

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