Living in Rural Arkansas: 26 Minutes to Walmart, 30 to the ER, Fiber Internet

Almog, what's it actually like living out there in rural Arkansas? It's a set of numbers, not a mood. From my lots outside Horseshoe Bend, it's twenty-six minutes to a Walmart. Thirty minutes to the nearest twenty-four hour ER. And the internet is fiber, plans up to a gigabit. So what's the catch? It's copperhead country and bear country. Six venomous snake species, over five thousand black bears. And winter isn't snow, it's ice on the power lines. And a rural line gets restored last. Not remote the way it sounds. Just specific.