So.... hard to say. But most places you can get a cheap DSL line for about $20 a month. I know I would rather have no TV before I had no internet.
That and it's hard as hell to get a job without internet. Companies don't pay shitloads of money to post job openings in every single newspaper in the country. Go online and there everything is - you can see jobs in cities that are not even close to where you currently live.