The new countryside
The girls who make the cold calls are always certain there will be no problems. The engineers who turn up always say it’s impossible.
The Internet has redefined “the countryside”. It is no longer a place where farmers grow crops, or the unspeakable pretend to be hunting the uneatable.
In the early twenty-first century, wherever you live on the planet, you live in the countryside if you live too far from a relay station to get broadband.