AT&T is installing fiber optic internet in my neighborhood. We currently use a local internet company and having lived in Philadelphia and New York using Comcast and Time Warner respectively, I have a healthy dislike of big internet companies. We likely won’t be switching internet providers. Regardless if anyone here plans to use it or want it, it’s being installed. Maybe the process is the company makes a deal with the city, the city receives money and whoever brokered the deal is going to get something. I assume the city is responsible because they’re digging on what I believe to be city land, about 4 feet from the street. The construction process isn’t too invasive, it’s loud so hopefully it doesn’t wake any naps and when I was walking the baby yesterday I had to pass by. My biggest complaint would be the workers that leave trash on the side of the road where they’re working, it’s not even work trash, it’s their personal trash like drinks and cigarette packs. They might go through when it’s all done to clean everything up, either way it’s not my responsibility. There are some patches of land I’ve seen recently I would like to be my responsibility, or at least I would be able to transform them into something more useful. When we moved out of the last place, I swore off ever working with my hands again. I don’t know if I will own land again, still it’s something I think about when I see a space going to waste.
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