True. This is a really a story of the "Fuck you, I got mine" generation.

Power and phone was run for free pretty much everywhere. Now they want 80K for a line and a pole.

This is the same story for internet access.

Have you seen the deficits the governments run?

Should we foot the bill for connecting every rural home because people wanted to move out of the city - increasing the urban sprawl? Maybe if there 5-10 people at a time in batches they could do it at cost. . but custom jobs for every individual homeowner, come on be realistic instead of entitled.

In general I'd expect it to be far more cost effective to enact a massive project to wire every house, than wire a single house

So that's true, but also we don't need new small farms.