Electricity in U.S.A. households (and not only there)

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My neighborhood is semi-rural and the first places started going up around 1965 or 1970. Unless you are an arterial road you don't have streetlights and even then its every two or three other poles.
Three or four houses share a pole transformer and a master fuse. The main road has three phase running along it, presumably for the school and water lift stations but all side roads are single phase.
The transformer steps the voltage down and we all get split phase 120/240.
We had 100A service when the house was built in the early 70's but recently had to upgrade to 200A for HVAC. BC at least has a pretty arbitrary code that even if the old stack on the house down to the meter and panel is in excellent condition and will fit the higher capacity feed cabling, it cannot be reused. Many of the houses up here had the stacks and meter boxes embedded in the wall, so you can identify other people in the neighborhood who had service upgrades by 3" conduit snaking around the exterior of the house, because the new stack is going to cost you $800, there is no point paying another $4000 to rip a wall out to hide it, get it inspected and the put your stucco back up.