Things I can't get out in the country

We've been living out on the land since October, I'm loving it.  I mean it's not exactly the way we want it yet but I don't know, there's just something about it I love.  Anyway I just wanted to make a quick list of things we can't get out there that kind of irritates me just a little, and some other things that are just...different...

1. The big one has got to be internet.  We could get something like 150 gigs from Mediacom in Carbondale for like $35 per month, extra fifty gigs for $10 if we needed it. Now I have to take Verizon because it's the only one that serves my house besides Hughes net.  First, Verizon.  I signed up for 30 gigs at $130, I thought: doable, usually it's another $10/month to get up to the next plan level so if I needed 40 gigs, it would go up to $140...first month, we're over, so I'm going in to up my plan, but I'm told my rates were 'special' when I signed up, and now my plan's regular price is $225, and the next step up (to 40 gigs) is $300.  Nope, not going to happen, but we're going over every month and having to pay $15/gig overage.  Hughes Net I can get something like 20 gigs for $130, no overage fee if I go over but it's slower, then I can get more gigs if I'm surfing between 2-8AM or something. Possibly good but I still need Verizon for the phone so I don't know. There are simply no other options that I know of. I just feel like I'm getting robbed.
2. Recycling: I have to take my recycle-ables to Carbondale or somewhere else as yet unknown to me.  In Carbondale it was curbside, $18/month.
3. City water. We have a cistern so it's not a big deal, hubby takes a giant tank on a trailer and fills it up at the water company in town.  He's got the equipment for it but we're using a lot of water, so he's having to fill it quite a bit.
4. We pay something like a zillion dollars for satellite cable, probably could get a better deal without all the movie channels, but what fun is that??
5. I don't want to think about police or ambulance because thankfully we haven't needed it yet, knock on wood, etc.
6. Luckily, my husband has a bunch of machinery that can handle snowplowing for the entire region basically and dumping rocks on our muddy driveway. He has been busy!

I'm not complaining really because it's not ruining my life or anything, I just need to figure all this stuff out and make it happen I guess.  I go to Carbondale every day for work so groceries, shopping etc. is not a problem, but the things above that we kind of took for granted are quite different. Ahhh, country life...

Detour

I wrote this last September and forgot to post it: So it turns out no one wants to move the house we found!  It's big, first of all, there's a big hill, all kinds of foresty turns along the way, which will make the move difficult.  Finally, there's a bad frame, like a washboard instead of straight, which they thought at the time might make it stronger but in fact makes it weaker.  So not only will it cost us a fortune to move the house, but there's no guarantee that once it's there that it will fit back together. After 2 months of looking for someone to move it, we gave up!

So, we visited some more places with houses, one Steven liked in Cape. Went to Benton, KY!  I had already been up north.  I'm nonplussed by the options.

Finally, since Steven says it's my decision, I decide on the Cape house.