America would be so much more beautiful if we had fewer billboards and cables were underground instead hosted on poles. I think it's patriotic to oppose billboards and telephone polls.
Anchorage has a law that in order to do any work on above-ground cables (other than emergency repairs), you must put them underground at the same time.
NYC, or at least Manhattan, has had a law requiring underground utilities since 1888!
Its substantially more expensive to run cables underground everywhere in the nation.