> When you choose an eccentric lifestyle

Many "eccentric" lifestyles are not chosen.

For instance not owning a smartphone or not having access to power easily is not necessarily limited to well-off tech-savv hipsters who want to make a statement, homeless people, older people in less connected areas or people in developing countries can also be in that situation.

When you make your services depend on specific access, and you give people without it no escape hatch, your service becoming successful usually means worsening access for people that have fewer means to adapt.

I'm pretty sure that their mother lived there before SMS was a thing, it's not exactly eccentric. Especially in the USA. You're not seriously suggesting that she leaves her home because of poorly implemented 2FA?

20 minutes outside of Asheville, NC is hardly "an eccentric lifestyle". Let's break it down: which part of this is "eccentric"?

1. Has internet, has WiFi calling.

2. Has a cell phone, but the signal is crap at the house.

Before you answer, that describes my house exactly. And I live in Redmond, WA, and a 10 minute drive from the Microsoft main campus. Though the neighbors might disagree, there is nothing eccentric about my lifestyle.

the article is about a retired woman who lives twenty minutes from Asheville, NC.

The terrain is rugged there, but it is not an "eccentric lifestyle"

It is extremely typical, however, to see the most basic needs of Appalachian people ignored on the grounds of their perceived choice of lifestyle

just this weekend I endured yet another incest joke.. I bet you have one of those ready too