Imagine

Imagine a world where the one place you can buy diesel within 100 kilometres is open for only 2 - 4 hours a day. If you miss it, you miss it. No emergencies or last minute decisions out of hours please.

Where a roadside breakdown could mean your only method of communication is to activate an emergency beacon or to wait until someone comes along.

Or if the tyre is shredded, there is no means to fix it for 200 kilometres. And a replacement one will take 3 weeks to arrive and at least 3 phone calls to organise. Best to carry a spare, and a spare spare. And for some trips, just another to avoid the possibility of day's wait by the vehicle waiting for a tow.

If you're away from the office and want to make a phone call, you have to beg or ask a favour of another worker while standing on the other side of the counter.

Where every time you visit a service provider, you  have to meet someone new and introduce yourself (all over again). Even though you were just there last week...

Where getting payment for one essential item requires at least three phone calls (and that's the uncomplicated transactions).

And if you run out of black pens (oddly mandatory for certain forms), it is a two week wait to get some more unless you beg, borrow or steal from others!

Where the photocopier repair man refuses to come and service the machine, as he doesn't have a spare week for the journey (and his contract makes no provision for your machine, specifically). So the machine limps along for years on end because it's too hard to get a new one and too hard to fix the old one.

Sending a letter and getting a reply takes a minimum of at least two weeks, up to three.

Where you have to guess the weight of your article and construct an estimated postage value using stamps in standard envelope denominations of the past 3 years.

... I'm not complaining. I'm just explaining.

There are some frustrations, limitations and necessities that cannot be avoided living remote. It's not 'special treatment' that's required, just commonsense.