re: How do people who live out in the country do it with grocery shopping.

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There's no way the people out there have cable, phone lines, etc. Probably two hours from the nearest grocery store.

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The world's largest gated community is Hot Springs Village Arkansas. A Dollar General outside the East gate, a grocery outside the West gate, 20 miles and nearly 20k people between them.

They were about to finish renovation on a tiny store for groceries just outside Mom's subdivision when I moved her closer to the remaining family down here in La.. Tiny as in smaller than a gas station.

That's it unless you wanna drive the worn out 2 lane 45 mph highway into Hot Springs which is about a 20 minute drive from the gates of the Village or roughly 40 minutes from most of the houses, so round trip is easily 1.5 hours just driving.

But hey, the Village has 11 lakes and 9 golf courses.

My parents had to pay $350 just to get a single land line telephone when they moved in in 1992. Real estate agent that sold them their house said the original resident with the 1st house paid over $350,000 for a telephone hookup. Parents got dedicated internet about 1998, fiber optic was soon after though and talk of gigabit in the next couple years. Took 2 weeks to get their cable hooked up as the provider had to lay line to the neighborhood. The neighborhood was pre-wired though, just the main cable feed had to be run from the next closest neighborhood.

ETA: Forgot about the Wal-Mart down highway from the main gate. But who wants to buy meat there?