It’s always fascinating that people so consistently underestimate the massive cost of running underground wires and assume it’s at all economical on the individual level. As a point of reference if this couple wanted the city to build a 181 ft road it would cost a little over $100k. If it’s not subsidized (i.e. paid for entirely) by the city or batched by developers wiring a whole neighborhood at a time it makes no sense.

Having grown up always having internet it’s easy to take for granted how stupidly expensive the whole system is.