The water actually has a lead warning in east PA, and we do have near weekly evening power outages. But the septic is county based and the electric is at the state level, and in PA you can buy from any electric provider in the state and the lines are maintained near us by Harrisburg.
So it sounds like your area fails in the infrastructure department pretty fundamentally. There are many other cities where it never blacks out, the water and sanitation has been great for decades and the roads are maintained. Those places would do municipal internet better too.
