If you live in a poor area, you can't get good internet.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/04/att-brings-fiber-to-rich-areas-while-the-rest-are-stuck-on-dsl-study-finds/

This is why my net connection is horrible - I'm not in one of those rich areas, and deathstar doesn't care about improving the infrastructure [ and nobody else is interested in providing service at all ]

In my town, the median income is fairly low because there's mostly retirees on fixed incomes. Social security ain't exactly a high payer.
Ah, and it looks like I'm in one of the areas identified explicitly as "underserved"