I am curious as to where you live where underground is the norm? I wonder if they build them differently than elsewhere..?
It's very rare to see above-ground power lines in UK towns and cities. You do see them in more rural locations.
(Some UK towns do have broadband cables running on poles, installed in the 1990s/early 2000s and typically splayed out in star configurations to several houses from a single pole. They're very ugly!)
Many HV trunk lines (ie. tens to hundreds of kV) are buried as well, and those that aren’t, of course have wide buffer zones to avoid being hit by errant cars or falling trees.
In the countryside (of which there is a lot in Finland), overhead lines are much more common due to the cost of burying them all. Still, it’s increasingly being done because a few storms in recent years left thousands of rural residents without electricity for days or even weeks – and such storms are only becoming more frequent while our lifestyles are getting even more dependent on electricity.
Burying all those lines is of course expensive, and the expenses will ultimately be paid by the consumers. There has been some pushback due to this – transmission fees have gone up a lot in the 2000s and utility companies are accused of using the costs as an excuse to inflate their profits.
https://utilitymagazine.com.au/underground-power-upgrade-com...
That being said, in a typical neighbourhood it's still wires everwhere to the house. I even went as far to drop the little man in google maps and have a peek. Wires everywhere the eye can see!