I used to think it would be years ago, I had visions of moving somewhere that had high speed broadband. The first house I bought was in a cable area back when 10mbit was a big deal.
But nowadays the answer is no, not really. My current house just has your bog standard ADSL max product and I get 5.5mbit down and 0.8mbit up. There is no Cable, no LLU and no FTTC. And I'm much happier living here than in the city with flashy internet and troublesome neighbours.
To be honest whether I have 5mbit or 50mbit doesn't make a massive difference to my life anymore, I can download stuff overnight and as long as I have good ping for gaming then I'm happy with the connection. I'm a geek yet still there are much bigger priorities in my life as to whether some movie takes 5 hours to download or 30mins.
Likewise mobile signal is terrible here and in at least half the house I have no signal. If I'm in bed and want to send a text I have to sit up and hold the phone up in the air until it connects to the network.