As you can imagine things are more expensive in Chicago as compared to Lexington. I have been working to get things setup there and transfered over from Lexington to Chicago. One of those things is Internet. So I am calling around getting prices. I call three companies and only one of which services our street. The other two service the streets on either side of ours, but not ours. So my only choice is Comcast and they want $60 for Internet in my house. Okay, If I lived one street over it would be $30, and I would have two other choices. I think this is ridiculous. It is impossible that it cost $30 more dollars per user to get Internet one block.
So as a result, I decided I am over the Internet. It is such a time abyss( plus I am a man of principle and a tight ass who is not paying $60 a month for Internet) . So we are going without home Internet. We will both have it at work and it is free at the library one block up the street.
One a side note, Chicago has started to build a free wireless network throughout the city. See articles here.
