Be it wealthy or poor, old or new, travel through any neighbourhood in the US - or so it seems - and you can't help but notice the power lines. They are everywhere, extremely ugly and not only line the roads, but seem to traverse properties willy-nilly and unmistakeably at a height of about 25 feet.
Many people have power, cable TV and phone lines running along the edge of their property. So far, so bad. If you're lucky, which I am not, then the offending wires criss-cross your neighbour's garden - or, better still, his neighbour's. If you're unlucky, which I am not, you are confronted with the sight of as many as ten lines obscuring the view at head height whenever you look out of your bedroom window (although the sight of squirrels using them as inter-tree bridges does soften the impact somewhat).
Why is this, I wonder. This isn't the Third World. There are plenty of mechanical diggers around. I've seen them. There's even a large unemployed workforce - especially here in Michigan - that, armed with said diggers, could put these eyesores underground before you could say "Urgh".
So is it just a question of money, or are Americans so inured to overhead power lines that they neither see them nor care anymore?
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