So 10g would be $18,000 for 5 years of service. Less for 1G of course.

There were people I knew who moved to Kansas when Google installed fiber there because they wanted a lower cost of living and could work from anywhere if they had good internet service.

If someone wants a decent side hustle a service for finding places to live that have 1G+ internet + enough amenities for your typical engineering type might make decent bank with referral fees. Collecting all that into one location.

Governors underestimate the importance of internet connectivity in any area.

Making sure there's FTTH at at least 1gbps down / 200mbps up is key.

15k to move in a depressed area sounds like a dumb bribe attempt to me.

Sounds like Nomad List: https://nomadlist.com/

As someone who recently (-ish) moved to Oak Ridge, TN where we still have shitty Comcast and AT&T service I really wish we had what Chattanooga has. I love the area, but I do not love the internet service providers I have to choose from.

I live at the other end of the state outside of Lexington TN and would gladly suffer Comcast and AT&T rather than TDS and their glitchy DSL service.

Very true, I could have it much worse. Honestly Comcast isn't that bad, but I deeply resent their ridiculous bandwidth cap when their service is so expensive.

> Chattanooga, TN.

Such an awesome city, too. It's close to Atlanta and Charlotte, I just wish they'd fund the high speed rail network meant to connect the three cities.

I got really into this idea a few years ago.

It still gets floated from time to time (I recently saw high speed rail maps making the rounds).

IF/ when ATL > Chattanooga > Nashville are connected by a leg, it will absolutely change the region.

I have "heard" - completely so-and-so said - that much of the needed infrastructure exists. The key is repurposing existing rail lines and getting right of way.

I think there was a study commissioned that laid out the whole plan for a (3-5 stop) between downtown ATL and Nashville with a stop in Chattanooga.

How could you possibly make any use of 10g at your house? I guess you could run a web hosting business.

I wonder how many customers actually do the networking on their end to make sure they aren't the bottleneck (10g ports/proper cabling and switches) versus people who just think "it's a bigger number and I have the cash... Sure"

Residential Internet almost never guarantees speed to the Internet backbone, it is just advertising the Ethernet link speed. There are subscriptions with guaranteed performance, but at a different price.

My home Internet connections are 1 Gbps and 300 Mbps (2 links from 2 providers, I work from home and I need the uptime) for less than $10 each, but the transfer speeds are close to these numbers only for local servers, getting out of the country is about half these speeds.