Yeah, the power lines into our development are underground, but not the ones that feed ours - overhead power lines are still the norm around here.
Funny story (probably mentioned it before), but we’d moved to Minnesota and lived there for eight years, and most of the power lines are underground, even out in the middle nowhere.
We’d go for a lot of long drives, out from the city to the prairies, up to the big lakes, whatever, and just absolutely stunning, jaw-dropping beauty, very expansive and wide-open, but it always looked just…a little off somehow, and I could never explain what it was.
A few years after moving there, we flew into Bethlehem, Pennsylvania for a long weekend trip, mainly to go to Nazareth (“Pulled into Nazareth, I’s feeling ‘bout half past dead…”), and we drove to the hotel in the dark, got up in the morning, made the drive down to Nazareth, and it hit me:
“THAT’S IT!!!”
“Jesus, you scared the shit outta me! What’s ‘it!’”
“I know what’s wrong with Minnesota,” I said, pointing all around outside, “No damn telephone poles. That’s what they’re missing.”
For me, growing up with them, those poles are an indelible, necessary part of the landscape. Just doesn’t look right without ‘em.
Edit: Hmm I might check that at some point, the person who told me that isn’t a reliable source.