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
There's plenty of locations with houses in Montana that have no cell service too.