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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: 1) by citizenr on Saturday September 05 2015, @01:25PM
pointless article
(Score: 3, Informative) by Nuke on Saturday September 05 2015, @10:19PM
pointless article
Pointless and ridiculous. I'm amazed that on a US website that "the nearest market town is almost eight miles away" is supposed to impress anyone. I am in the UK and it does not even impress me.
I am also in Wales and halfway between two market towns, 16 miles apart (Chepstow and Monmouth). That is typical of old-established market towns in Europe because it allowed a peasant in the "worst" case (like mine) to walk to market and back in a day. I also have frequent loss of land-line phone connection and sometimes electricity. I have no mains sewerage and no mobile phone reception that you can rely on. I think that is quite normal for the UK rural areas. If I wanted to complain I'd go and live in a city.