Re: Dump the landline ...
Sorry I have no advice.
We managed to buy a house in one of the most topsy-turvey places in Britain.
Technically, we live in a city. But are 5 minutes walks from a "shire" with beautiful countryside all around.
We're 2 minutes from a motorway.
We're a "deprived area" (no stamp duty, thanks to Gordon Brown) yet are cabled up to the max. My standard 60MBps pure-cable connection is better than *any* of our directors (so they tell me). And I am a minutes walk from a highly-ranked UK university (although not so highly ranked they reply to my emails).
Mobile coverage is 100% for every network - probably due to the proliferation of masts on tower blocks within line of sight.
And a 10 minute drive from the newest hospital in the UK.
Yet house prices here are sub-normal. Currently. A couple of country-dwelling friends have commented that they would pay more for a property with decent broadband.