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From BBC Magazine:
The Welsh village of Staylittle can be found to the west of Newtown in Powys. It's an isolated place - the nearest market town is almost eight miles away. "Staylittle, which has remained outside the perimeter of progress and stayed little, is miles from anywhere," complained a reporter in the Times in 1965. Fifty years might have passed since then but the village's communications are still tenuous.
It has no mobile reception. And because of this, most people in Staylittle have to rely on their landlines to stay in touch with people. But a fortnight ago, the villagers were cut off. Ten days later, Staylittle was still waiting for the problem to be fixed. The main conduit of communication is one working landline in the Post Office.
Yes, the UK is more compact than either the US or Australia, but I imagine it's still frustrating to be as cut off as the people here are.
(Score: 2) by Jerry Smith on Saturday September 05 2015, @07:35AM
Some people consider hyperfast internet as most essential in their life, other people rather live in Staylittle. Don't forget, for some people the internet is compensation for to world outside, they lock themselves up in offices, cars en houses because their outside world is not so nice to live in.
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 05 2015, @07:44AM
The outside world is great! Every time I go outside I see people spitting on the sidewalk. People are only slightly more civilized than dogs that shit in the street. No wait. I actually have seen people literally shitting in the street. So yeah the outside world is great! The WORLD is full of SHIT that calls itself PEOPLE.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday September 05 2015, @11:04AM
Move out of Beijing, my friend.
Washington DC delenda est.